Black student defends his Confederate flag

Byron Thomas is 19, black, a freshman at the University of South Carolina Beaufort and a proud Southerner. He hung a Confederate flag in his dorm room window until the university asked him to take it down because several people had complained about it. (The university later stepped back from the request, saying all students have the right to free speech.)


"I know it's kinda weird because I'm black," Thomas said in an iReport 

he submitted. "When I look at this flag, I just don't see racism. I see pride, respect. Southern pride, that's what I see."     Read Here