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Posted on 03/23/2004 12:10:32 PM PST by stainlessbanner
COLUMBIA, S.C. -- The NCAA has indefinitely extended its ban on awarding championships to South Carolina for flying the Confederate flag on Statehouse grounds.
NCAA spokesman Jeff Howard told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the August 2001 decision for a two-year moratorium called for "significant change" from the state. That has not occurred, he said.
The NCAA executive committee had voted for a ban on selecting sites in South Carolina for sports events, such as basketball championships.
"The membership believes that this is the correct stance to take around this particular issue," Howard said.
The NCAA tournament was in Greenville for the first and second rounds in 2002 and drew protests by the NAACP.
Opponents of the flag say it's a symbol of racism and hatred. Flag supporters say it honors heritage.
The flag's position has cost South Carolina other prominent athletic events. Furman hosted a NCAA cross country regional for 21 years until the NCAA ban.
The Atlantic Coast Conference moved its 2003 baseball tournament from Knights Castle in Fort Mill because of the moratorium.
The NCAA's ban also costs the state financially.
Tom Regan, chairman of the Department of Sports and Entertainment Education at the University of South Carolina, says a region can benefit by as much as $12 million to $15 million from a weekend of NCAA tournament basketball.
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The NAACP encourages blacks to stay out of S.C...
Those blacks that respond to such exhortations are politically active, liberal, (socialist/leftist) whiners and trouble makers..
Keeping them out only encourages S.C. to continue their behaviour..
If I could find a way to get rid of all Liberals in Missouri, I would do it without hesitation..
They called for the removal of the Roy Barnes rag the day after it was adopted because it still contined the CBF. Screw 'em. Our family went to SC on vacation in support of the flag - tourism is UP!
I didn't because I felt then as I do now, it will never be enough. We shouldn't have compromised the first time, but we did. Mississippi didn't compromise and they still have a part of the flag. South Carolina gave the NAALCP a seat at the discussion table as it were and they are still paying for it
See that tiny flag on the pole right behind the Confederate Soldier's Monument? That's what they are protesting.
The North side inscription reads: “This monument perpetuates the memory of those who, true to the instincts of their birth, faithful to the teachings of their fathers, constant in their love for the state, died in the performance of their duty . . . who have glorified a fallen cause by the simple manhood of their lives, the patient endurance of suffering, and the heroism of death . . . and who in the dark hours of imprisonment, in the hopelessness of the hospital, in the short sharp agony of the field, found support and consolation in the belief that at home they would not be forgotten.”
The South side inscription reads: “Let the stranger, who in future times reads this inscription, recognize that these were men whom power could not corrupt, whom death could not terrify, whom defeat could not dishonor, and let their virtues plead for just judgement of the cause in which they perished… Let the South Carolinian of another generation remember that the state taught them how to live and how to die, and that from her broken fortunes she has preserved for her children the priceless treasures of her memories, teaching all who may claim the same birthright that truth, courage and patriotism endure forever.” —William Henry Trescot
The Confederate flag was removed from the statehouse dome and placed at the Confederate Soldier's Monument in a compromise with the NAACP. As soon as the flag was raised at the monument, the NAACP reneged on the compromise and announced their boycott. As far as I know, the NCAA is the only organization honoring the boycott.
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Just showing their intellectual heritage -- Marxist and Leftist. All compromises are only temporary, until the Main Enemy is totally defeated and his supporters sent to the Gulag.
Seems they're using the NCAA as a cat's paw, to reopen the issue after it's been "settled" by compromise. I agree with you -- screw the NAACP, hard. Kick back. Try to really hurt them in the wallet. Go after their tax status in court -- they've been paying off little girls to shut up about their bastard kids, right? Doesn't anyone in South Carolina have standing to sue about that? How about restraint of trade? Extortion? RICO? They wanna play rough, get rough. You've got nothing at all to lose with these guys. Beat them flat and then stomp on them, like the Southern Poverty Law Center did with that Klan bunch. Sue them individually and severally, and ask for damages guaranteed to put them all in bankruptcy for the rest of their lives -- and use the resources of the State of South Carolina to do it, and if necessary hold a referendum and bullyrag the issue to get "your" voters out to approve it and make sure it sticks! -- hell, that's exactly what the NAACP does.
All you have to do is win, and then you cut the ground from under any journo or propagandist who wants to call you a racist pork chop.
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