Posted on 01/14/2007 5:48:30 PM PST by conservativeinferno
(Greenville-AP) January 14, 2007 - US Senator Christopher Dodd calls Sunday for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies at the South Carolina Statehouse. The Connecticut Democrat was attending a Martin Luther King Junior memorial event at a Greenville church Sunday night.
He says black and white young people from South Carolina are fighting under one flag in Iraq and Afghanistan. Dodd says the Confederate flag belongs in a museum.
Dodd will be at the King Day at the Dome rally at the Statehouse Monday. The event was started six years ago as the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People launched economic sanctions against South Carolina to force the flag from the Capitol dome.
It was moved from there and put out front at the Confederate Soldier Monument on Statehouse grounds.
One small detail and then I will agree with you. Wasn't John Calhoon in 1860. He was dead and gone by the time SC seceded. The North still gloats over the victory in 1865, and fails to realize what damage they did to the South.
As you say, they killed and maimed most of a generation of southern leadership. The physical damage to cities like Richmond and Atlanta--which is preserved in photographs--reminds me of war damage in France in 1914-1918. This did not prevcent the South from regaining political control of their governments after ten years. Don't know why southerners should be blamed for the craven abandonment of their black allies, although our owntreatment of them is certainly nothing to be proud of. The Yankees let us do them a favor by keeping blacks from migrating northward until the cotton industry was ravaged by the boll weevil in the early 20th Century. When they did begin to move north, they were treated with the same savagery that our grandfathers used. People forget that the KKK was stronger in Indiana and Oregon than in Mississippi.
I call for Sen. Dodd to be removed from the Senate and relegated to the nut house where he belongs.
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