For men, the influence of the white dress shirt can be best traced back to the Victorian era where it was an important symbol of wealth and class distinction and a powerful emblem of sobriety and ...

But it has always been a symbol of white power and racial oppression ... that slaves had been happy and loyal; and that all the men who fought for the South were men of honor, none more so ...

As the most obvious symbol of our national identity ... it can be understood how the flag can be seen as representative of white (and male) power. Until relatively recently, not only were white ...

Or were they more comfortable asserting that it was a symbol of white supremacy? Initially, it was associated with Confederate heritage. But it's come to be associated in the last 60 or 70 years ...