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From VOA Learning English, this is In the News. An honor guard from the South Carolina Highway Patrol has removed theConfederate battle flag from the state Capitol grounds. The flag will be moved to a museum after 50 years at the state house. 来自南卡莱罗纳州的高速护卫巡逻队的队伍降下国会山前内战时期的联邦旗帜。在国会建筑前飘扬了近50年后，这面旗帜将被放进博物馆。 The move comes three weeks after nine African Americans were murdered in their church in Charleston, South Carolina. Photos show the alleged killer carrying the Confederate battle flag. 九名非裔美国人在南卡罗来纳州的查尔斯顿教堂中被杀后，才决定降下此面旗帜。照片显示承认罪行的谋杀者扛着一面联邦旗帜。 After the killings, activists renewed a long campaign to remove official public displays of the battle flag. 杀人事件发生之后，积极分子展开运动要求移除政府公共建筑前飘扬的联邦旗帜。 A powerful symbol … but of what? Flag opponents say the flag is a symbol of white supremacy and racial oppression. Southern soldiers used the flag during the U.S. Civil War of the 1860s, when they fought to keep slavery of African Americans legal in their states. 反对此面旗帜的人说这面旗帜是白人优于黑人的象征，是种族压迫的表现。南部士兵在十九世纪六十年代的美国内战支持南方各州奴隶制合法时就用的这面旗帜。 One hundred years after the South lost the war, officials raised the battle flag over the South Carolina state house. Flag opponents point out the flag remained on the Capitol grounds long after the anniversary of the war. They say the flag became a way to reject the 1960s Civil Rights movement to achieve racial equality. 南方被打败后一百年后，官员在南卡罗来纳州政府前又重新升起了这面旗帜。反对者表示该旗帜在纪念战争爆发时就一直矗立在国会山。该旗帜变成了阻止二十世纪六十年代民权运动实现种族平等的一种方式。 Jonathan Blanks is with the CATO Institute. He says many people view the flag as a symbol of racial oppression. 约纳逊·布兰克斯是加图研究所的成员。他表示，许多人将联邦旗帜视为民族压迫的象征。 “Because every time that the flag has come up, it has been used – and it has been – to assert this sort of racial superiority of whites against blacks, to stop, to end their civil rights.” “因为每次这面旗帜出现时，使用时就会肯定白人比黑人更加优越的断定，阻止了他们实现民权的道路。” Flag supporters say the flag is a symbol of the South’s history. Lee Bright, a Republican state senator, says flying the flag in front of the state house honors