Posted on 02/05/2002 6:41:39 PM PST by Michael2001
Edited on 04/22/2004 12:32:29 AM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
COLUMBIA, S.C.
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I'll be slipping quarters into every reststop-coke machine I see, too.
Over the last three decades the moral voices of the black community were first muted
and then drowned out, as dissent from the desperate search for psychological and fiscal
entitlements that is now euphemistically referred to as the "civil-rights agenda" was ruthlessly
crushed. In the wake of the trial, writer Richard Rodriguez commented sadly that the two hundred
years of moral capital stored up by the civil-rights movement had been squandered to acquit O.J.
He is only partially correct. That capital has actually been wasted incrementally all along the long
march down the mountain—from the summit Martin Luther King Jr. achieved into the fever
swamps of today—as racial hate-mongers like Farrakhan and charlatans like Al Sharpton have
replaced King and Medgar Evers; as lying delinquents like Tawana Brawley (who falsely claimed
to have been abducted and abused by whites) have replaced true victims like Emmett Till (a
black teenager brutally murdered in Mississippi in the fifties by whites who believed be had
whistled at a white woman); as figures like the ever corrupt Marion Barry, the felon Rodney King,
the thug Damian Williams, the cop-killer Mumia Abu-Jamal, and now O. J. Simpson himself have
all been embraced as heroes of the struggle as worthy of admiration as Rosa Parks.
This inability to discriminate right from wrong and heroes from perpetrators suggests that what now
calls itself the civil-rights movement has not only lost its moorings and its morality, but in some
sense has lost its mind as well.
God Bless America
Richard W.
The people of South Carolina should run that flag right back to the top of the state house in Columbia. What's the NAALCP going to do? Boycott? I'll be spending more money than ever in South Carolina this year, and if I see those NAALCP bozos at the rest areas, I'll show them my receipts.
The Confederacy, despite all of the noble talk about sovereign state rights, was a breakaway from the United States, a subversive movement of states against the general welfare of the nation, and for all the moralistic preaching of the "rightness" of states to break with the Union, the real question wasn't state sovereignty, but perpetuation of slavery.
Why would anyone defend the symbol of sedition against the United States -- a flag under which an insurrection was waged against the nation -- and sedition in the name of protecting the "peculiar institution" of slavery?
I've had this discussion with southerns I've met, and I've pointed out that if the break with the Constitution and the United States had truly been about state sovereignty, perhaps the Confederacy had an arguable point. But because state sovereignty was principally promoted as a means of supporting slavery, it is indefensible.
I had two ancestors who fought in the Civil War for the Union; one of them was at Gettysburg, one was at Appomattox. One was from a New England state; one was a volunteer from New Brunswick, Canada, who joined a regiment from Maine because of a hatred of slavery. Frankly, as a white, the Confederate flag is offensive to me.
The Confederacy lost the war; get over it!
Most South Carolinians don't even have a rebel flag in their possession.They just want to be American.
However ,the major highways are always full in Souh Carolina .The boycott doesn't really seem to have much steam. I don't think the NAACP bigwigs are ready to give up their SC made BMW's.
While the AG is free to do what he wants, it seems like overkill.
SC is a great state, and the protesters will be only hurting themselves.
Suing them will only serve to give unwarranted publicity to a bunch of 60's radicals who will never be satisfied as long as the USA is not a communist nation.
You've let the media and politicians drill the "Racist" label into your head. I would think that someone with any intelligence would realize that it is a flag that represented the Battles of the Civil War. It's not even the National Confederacy flag (Stars & Bars).
You go onto talk about slavery. Do you honestly think that slavery would have lasted much longer? Definitely no. Mechanization was the wave of the future.
Some of you people act as though someone is a backwards, rednecked racist for flying the Confederate Battle Flag. Furthermore, you act as though they are doing it in defiance to the United States and American Blacks. Only for a few exceptions, that is not the case. Most individuals who fly a Confederate flag fly an American flag right beside it. Furthermore, most aren't thinking about blacks. That's a media-induced bs-laced propagandic tool to get you to hate the south. Evidently you fell for it. It's about heritage. The political correct whores have been trying to destroy Southern Heritage. Apparently, you don't believe that people should remember their heritage.
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