07-09-2015, 09:29 PM
The South Carolina Congress voted to remove the Confederate Flag from the Columbia state capitol grounds today. The flag will be lowered and moved to a museum tomorrow at 10 a.m.
I'm glad. That flag didn't start being flown on the capitol grounds of some southern states until the 1960s, when the same states which had fought to keep slavery in-tact and blacks regarded as property were protesting against civil rights for blacks and racial desegregation.
For the century between the Civil War and the black Civil Rights movement, it had only been flown at separate war memorials, displayed in historical museums, and been flown/displayed by private citizens or businesses on their own persons/properties, if they so desired. As it should be.
It does not bother me one bit that the catalyst for the Confederate Flag finally being removed from the South Carolina state capitol grounds in July 2015 was the murder of nine innocent black church-goers by a piece of shit white supremacist. Outside of governmental capacities, I don't care who sees it as what and what they do with it.
"This is a story about the history of South Carolina and how the action of nine individuals laid out this long chain of events that forever showed the state of South Carolina what love and forgiveness looks like," Governor Haley said after signing the bill into law with 9 pens (one for each victim of last month's racially-motivated murders).
Story: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/us/south-c...ttle-flag/
I'm glad. That flag didn't start being flown on the capitol grounds of some southern states until the 1960s, when the same states which had fought to keep slavery in-tact and blacks regarded as property were protesting against civil rights for blacks and racial desegregation.
For the century between the Civil War and the black Civil Rights movement, it had only been flown at separate war memorials, displayed in historical museums, and been flown/displayed by private citizens or businesses on their own persons/properties, if they so desired. As it should be.
It does not bother me one bit that the catalyst for the Confederate Flag finally being removed from the South Carolina state capitol grounds in July 2015 was the murder of nine innocent black church-goers by a piece of shit white supremacist. Outside of governmental capacities, I don't care who sees it as what and what they do with it.
"This is a story about the history of South Carolina and how the action of nine individuals laid out this long chain of events that forever showed the state of South Carolina what love and forgiveness looks like," Governor Haley said after signing the bill into law with 9 pens (one for each victim of last month's racially-motivated murders).
Story: http://www.cnn.com/2015/07/09/us/south-c...ttle-flag/