MEMPHIS, Tenn. — Across the country they’ve been taking down the Confederate Flag, but the Riverfront Development Corporation and Mud Island Park  said for the time being the Confederate flag on the Southern tip of the Island isn’t going anywhere.

The first National Flag of the Confederate states flies next to the U.S. Flag, the Tennessee Flag, the British Flag, French Flag, Spanish Flag and the flag of North Carolina.

It’s part of a display that represents all the governments that at one point had control of the area.

The general manager of Mud Island Park said it’s part of history.

“There is no celebration of any particular country or flag other than our tribute to the U.S. flag which is the highest and most prominent flag there,” said Trey Giutini.

But County Commissioner Walter Baily, who admitted he didn’t even know the flag was there until Monday, didn’t see it that way.

“It ought to be removed immediately,” said Bailey.

Even though the flag on Mud Island is not the Battlefield Confederate Flag commonly displayed by hate groups, Bailey said it sends the wrong message.

“It’s on the wrong side of history. It has no place on Mud Island,” he said.

The Memphis NAACP agreed saying “we are against any public monument that seeks to honor a particular person or group who acted against the Unite States in an effort to maintain slavery.”

Other  African American leaders, though, told us African Americans fought in the Civil War and they didn’t find this display offensive.

Mud Island Park said so far no one has complained to them about the flag.