The South Carolina legislature
is now considering
Governor Nikki Haley's request
to remove the Confederate flag
from the state Capitol
and other Southern states
with coincidentally Republican governors
are following suit.
Retailers including Amazon
Wal-Mart
Sears and eBay
are starting to ban
the sale of Confederate-adorned items.
Removing the symbol
won't fix what lies beneath it
and is step one of x
but some people have asked
why we can't just separate
the symbol
from its "ism".
That might be answered by
who gets to wear the symbol
and who gets to wear
the symbol's "ism"?
This poem © 2015 Emily Cooper.
