Following the deadly shooting in a Charleston, South Carolina, the Confederate flag flying over the South has taken center stage in the issue after the killer, Dylann Roof, was discovered to embrace the flag.
In a report of MTV which collated the opinion of different Hip Hop artists with regards to the issue, they all see eye to eye in taking the confederate flag down.
OG Maco says flying the confederate flag is wrong and outdated. Doing so allows people to maintain adherence to systematic racism.
KCamp explains that he was never amused by the Confederate flag because he knows what it stands for. With what happened in South Carolina, it's gonna take more than burning the Confederate flag for the victims to attain justice or to effectively extinguish hatred and racism.
Wale admits being not knowledgeable on the Confederate flag. But with the controversy that it's causing, it is worth exploring the call for its removal if it will help relieve society of racial tension.
Soulja Boy, who hails from South suggests that symbols and meanings of the Confederate Flag are a mental thing. He cites Kanye of putting the Confederate flag on his jacket and f-king flipping it. However, as a member of the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People), he will support whatever the organization wants to do with the issue.
Big K.R.I.T., who grew up around it (confederate flag), seeing it explains, that he was never in agreement with flying the confederate flag. It is part of history that is destructive and so demeaning to a people... a race. He also doesn't understand why somebody would glorify it.
According to Reuters, the call for bringing down the confederate flag was shared by many American leaders. South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said it was time to remove the flag from their State House.
No less than the American president himself called for its take down suggesting that the flag belongs in a museum only.
