(Editor's Note: Meeke wrote this blog in 2015 when South Carolina removed the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds in response to the murder of nine black churchgoers in Charleston. Subsequent to the crime it was discovered that the perpetrator, Dylann Roof, had posed with photos of the Confederate flag. Mississippi recently retired its state flag which included the Confederate emblem. Meeke's words resonate just as much now as they did then.)