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.
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Hello Stand
South Carolina should consider articles of secession. I will move there if they do.
SB, you're back. Good!
Even'n friend. Wish'n they would not meddle in other states affairs.
Sorry - I was short on time for a short spell. I'll get back on it, double time, friend!
Dodd is doing this why? I really don't have a clue. Obviously he can't win the South and you have to win it to win the presidency. Screw him and his cowboy boots. Why do any of us care whether Dodd even has a piss pot?
God bless you. Or as my grandmammas used to say: bless your heart.
That BASTARD needs to read up on his history, and stay out of the south (which IMO is more integrated than the "North"), I am not arguing the ages old civil war debate, but down south most people recognize the Confederate flag as one of heritage/pride just as they realize the evils of pre-civil war slavery!
Dodd is an IDIOT, and noone from CT will EVER WIN SC!! (And I'm from Indiana ;))!
Dodd should shut up. As if the Irish ever gave a flip about blacks--in Connecticut or anywhere else.
"Don't lump this Yankee in with Senator Dudd."
Is the good senator of English descent? To the country folk of England, to "dodd" is to shear sheep, and a dodman is a snail.
PING
Quick history lesson from somebody who used to work five blocks from there...
The South Carolina General Assembly voted in the early 1960s to fly the Confederate Naval Jack (the rectangular St. Andrew's Cross that's commonly referred to as the "Confederate flag") on top of the Statehouse dome, under the US and SC flags. (Trivia--the man who signed this bill into law, by the way, was Governor ERNEST "FRITZ" HOLLINGS, DEMOCRAT. That's generally conveniently forgotten by the Democratic race pimps.)
Anyway. The flag flew up there on top of the Statehouse dome for over 30 years until the NAACP started making noise. The Republican governor at the time, David "Weaseley" Beasley, first stated that the flag was going to stay on the dome, and then did a 180 and came out for taking it down. The flip-flop cost him his job in the 1998 election and put a Democrat, Jim Hodges, in the Governor's office.
Hodges ended up working out a compromise with black legislators and the NAACP where the flag would come down off the dome, and an Army of Northern Virginia battle standard (the square St. Andrew's Cross flag that's shown in a picture in this thread) would be erected behind the existing Confederate Soldiers Memorial on the Statehouse grounds, which is the obelisk in the picture. That obelisk stands in the center of downtown Columbia, at Gervais and Main Streets, and has been there since well before 1900. An African-American monument would also be constructed on the Statehouse grounds, and indeed, it's there now.
The NAACP had agreed to this compromise. All of a sudden, sensing weakness, they reversed themselves and decided to "boycott" the state. Various liberal-minded groups like the Democratic Party and the NCAA have gone along with them, but in the end, the economic impact has been negligible. The only people that have been hurt by this have been...wait for it...black business owners, primarily in the Lowcountry, who specialized in tours of the black history down there (the Gullah culture, which is absolutely fascinating).
So the flag that you see is not one of the three actual political flags of the CSA. It was the battle flag of Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, where thousands of South Carolinians fought and died. It flies behind a memorial to dead Confederate soldiers that's been in the same spot for around 125 years. There are no Confederate flags flying over any of the governmental buildings in South Carolina that I'm aware of. It's a soldier's flag at a soldier's monument.
Understand that since it's been in place, the forces of tolerance and diversity have tried to burn that flag twice and tear down the flagpole at least once, have tried their hardest to economically throttle an entire state's tourism industry (and failed miserably), and have in general used that flag as a bludgeon to try and paint an entire racially diverse state as some sort of 1960s throwback, which is patently false. And now we have Chris "Waitress Sandwich" Dodd attempting to tell the good people of South Carolina what they can and can't put on their own Statehouse grounds as a memorial. Please forgive South Carolinians if they don't take too kindly to it.
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let's have a Constitional convention to make a motion to throw out all Anti-American Idiots like DODD to FRANCE: YOU W/ME?
"DixiePing"
Could you hook me up with that? Thanks.
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