The Southern state flag is banned at the US Navy Corps

The order that the Confederate Battle Flag be banned on US naval bases and workplaces came on Friday. The ongoing protests against structural racism and police violence, which started after George Floyd was killed in a police raid, have put pressure on government, police and military to remove symbols that can be perceived as racist.

"Ongoing events are a clear reminder that it is not enough for us to remove symbols that cause fragmentation - rather, we must also strive to eliminate the fragmentation itself," wrote General David H. Berger, Marine Corps commander, in a statement on Wednesday .

General Berger banned the navy corps already in April to use the southern state flag publicly. Thus, the ban has now been formalized and specified. The flag is banned on everything from mugs and stickers on cars to clothes and as decoration of premises. Already in April, the general wrote that the flag has the power to drive divisions.

In the Navy's official Twitter account, it is written that all too often the southern state flag has been hijacked by racist and violent groups whose ideas have no place in the Navy. They also write that too many events in American history indicate the divisive effect the flag can have on society, as in, for example, Charlottesville 2017.

In the tweet, the Navy Corps writes: "This poses a threat to our core values, our cohesion, security and good order and discipline."

A number of statues of Southern state generals were pulled down following the demonstrations in Charlottesville 2017. Now the issue has been raised again. Several of the remaining state monuments remain vandalized, the New York Times writes.

The mayor of Birmingham Alabama ordered as late as this week that a controversial Southern State statue be removed from a park a day after dozens of people demonstrated against it.

The statue of Southern Governor Robert E. Lee, who has stood in Richmond, Viriginia, for more than 100 years will be removed "as soon as possible," says Governor Ralph Northam. That's what USA Today writes.