Posted on 07/25/2006 10:19:23 AM PDT by Colonel Kangaroo
They don't care what you think. The civil rights memorial is there and Jesse's face is on it, the Confederate soldiers' memorial is there and the battle flag flies above it.
I don't usually like the NAACP's rhetoric on the flag issue. They often broadly depict every Confederate soldier of the 1860s as being a sleveowning racist and every current display of the reb flag (even in private Confederate memorials) as being the work of a slavery lover. But that doesn't change the fact that people have legitimate problems with the rebel flag on public property.
Maybe not his, but Jesse Jackson is. And in some corners of the state, his legacy is nearly as bad as Sherman's - at least Sherman ended a war....
In a way, it is. There are plaques on the State House showing the marks where Sherman's artillery struck the walls.
Heck, in a way, the entire city of Columbia is a monument to Sherman. You'll find VERY few cities continuously inhabited since 1778 that have virtually no buildings standing from before 1865. And most of the historical markers in Columbia contain the words "burned by Union troops on February 17, 1865" somewhere in the text.
This whole flap is much ado about nothing. It's a soldiers' battle flag, flying at a monument commemorating the deaths of thousands of Confederate soldiers in the war. The only difference between that monument and hundreds of others across the South is that South Carolina flew a flag from the pole on their Statehouse dome for 37 years before taking it down and running a similar one up at the monument. That's it.
By the way, this "compromise" to pull the flag off the dome and put one up at the Confederate Soldiers' Memorial was the original compromise that the NAACP proposed. As soon as Governor David Weaseley--er, Beasley--flip-flopped and agreed to the "compromise," the NAACP immediately screamed that it wasn't good enough, that no Confederate flags could fly on the Statehouse grounds, and voted their ineffective and laughable "tourism boycott." (The flip-flop cost Weaseley his job the next election and handed the job to a Rat for four years.) Well, there were 400,000+ black bikers in Myrtle Beach on Memorial Day weekend, just like every year...some boycott! }:-)4
And he's got no business up there. That's what is so hateful about PC. It says that I can offend you, but don't dare offend me. But I still don't think that that negates the need for public politeness and consideration. Two wrongs don't make a right.
Clemson got to host the regionals because Clemson has a great baseball program. How hard is that to figure out?
When will Leftist (like YOU) ever tire of politicizing every last bleeding corner of American culture for the sake of imposing your pink-laced sanctimony on everyone else? Nobody is forcing baseballplayers or you to march around the SC capitol grounds until you find the confederate monument and salute. If you don't like it, don't go there. Problem sovled.
And as for the NCAA being a private organization, it's funded, in part, with dues from taxpayer supported state schools, including those of South Carolina. I suppose if they wanted to, the bureaucrats who run it could exclude Clemson from the tournament, but it would be a far less interesting tournament without one of the consistantly best programs in the country.
There is no bottom to the NCAA's insanity. Basically, 12-15 nerdy college professors are on a committee which arbitrarily dishes out sanctions against schools and/or states which are deemed to be practicing political incorrectness.
Illinois and North Dakota can't have Indian mascots because it shows insensitivity, yet these pompous proclamations are handed down from the hallowed halls of the NCAA home office, conveniently located in......drum roll please......INDIANapolis, INDIANa !!!
The hypocrisy is mind boggling. The raw abuse of power is absurd. But, most troubling of all is that suuposedly grown men are willing to grab their ankles whenever the NCAA says bend over, because failure to do so will be punished by the loss of intercollegiate athletic events at dear old State U.
I don't know how some "sports fans" can bear to look in the mirror.
I believe that there were a lot of honest-hearted ordinary Southern men who died for that. But I think that the underlying cause of the rebellion was the material selfishness of a relatively small group of slaveowners who manipulated events. And when events got hard for the Confederacy, the relatively quick collapse of the CSA showed that the rebellion never really had that much public support anyhow.
The only appropriate reply I can come up with for this contrived PC crap is to put my own "rebel" flag on display.
I bought it a while ago, after the PC Nazi's managed to get Confederate flags removed from many Confederate grave site's.
I despise those who seek to rewrite history, and the entire Confederate Flag "issue" is based on twisting history.
I have legitimate problems with the NAACP on Public Property.
That's MY flag, MY heritage, MY ancestors. IF they can spew their filth on public land (which they frequently do), then MY flag can be flown on that same public land.
But then, we're all about diversity ONLY when it's black, hispanic or some other race/culture. Not when it's historically American.
I guess we should boycot cotton, since slaves picked cotton,correct? We must all wear Polyester and Rayon if we live in the South.
If the NAACP is boycotting SC tourist areas, especially the beaches, will that be an overall plus or minus for the atmosphere at those areas?
Why do you appear to lump English speaking blacks who have been here since the 1600s with the Spanish-speaking Mexicans who are just arriving here. Historically, the slaves and descendants of slaves are as much American as any of us.
You're out for an argument and I'm not going to bite.
Read what I said. Diversity doesn't include most anything that is American. That's why there's now a move on to get rid of Old Glory, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and a sundry other American Icons.
Starting with the Confederate Battle Standard was just the easiest way to set a precendence.
You might be right. :)
Don't I wish!
I take second place to nobody in my opposition to the Southern rebellion, but Jesus, people, lighten up already! It's their damned state, let them fly whatever flag they want to.
With the large size of the Confederate states, they should have held on much longer. Jefferson Davis himself said towards the end that all the South lacked was will. But the South never was really united behind the CSA. Many were reluctant conscripts. many Southerners joined the Union army and many more would have if given the chance. Still more wished to be left alone. As NC's Confederate governor admitted, it was a revolution of the politicians and not the people.
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