Posted on 06/20/2015 4:45:20 AM PDT by SoFloFreeper
The Charleston church shootings have thrown the spotlight back onto the Confederate battle flag on South Carolinas State House grounds in Columbia.....
....NAACP renews call for flag to come down
The head of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People is calling the slaying of nine people inside a black church an act of racial terrorism and said the Confederate flag flying on the South Carolina capitol grounds needs to come down.
(Excerpt) Read more at thestate.com ...
After the Civil War ended in April 1865, slavery still existed . . . In the north. It had been eliminated in the south by the Emancipation Proclamation. It would take years more before it was eliminated in the north.
Strange but true.
I'm amazed at the lengths people are going to trying to blame is actions on anything but his own racial hatred. Sometimes hate is enough.
Ironically, since the flags on his jacket were from Rhodesia and apartheid South Africa. So maybe they should be calling for a boycott of “African flags”.
Only in areas not occupied by Union forces, which made up parts of Virginia and Louisiana. It also excluded Tennessee. Those areas had to wait for the 13th Amendment as well.
It would take years more before it was eliminated in the north.
Months, not years. The 13th Amendment was ratified in December 1865.
After the amendment though there were still people keeping slaves . It’s not like it stopped all of a sudden because the amendment passed.
The NAACP does not even know those flags, hell you could put a stars and bars flag and they would not know.
It’s always best to “SCAN” the entire thread before you post.
And let me guess, all those people still holding slaves were in the North? Now isn't that convenient?
Agreed but did we miss where a GOP Legislator introduced a bill to remove it? Don’t get so angry at the enemy that you miss the other enemy in your own back yard.
Standard cry when they are trying to divert attention from something.
“LOOK OVER THERE A CONFEDERATE FLAG!”
The National Association for the Abortion of Colored People is nothing in the world but an arm of the democrat party. Ten to one says Master Obama will weigh in on the flag and say it’s time to come down. The morons.
“Dylann Roof killed nine people because he hated blacks”.
According to some of his friends that been interviewed, had plenty of black friends growing up and had black friends all his life. But all the sudden he “hated” them. Go figure. He’s a psycho nutcase.
No no
The Confederate Battle Flag made him do it
I’ll give liberals in general and South bashers on Free Republic credit
They have no shame about exploiting all tragedies to enforce their will
Another question: Do those drugs, besides "occasionally causing violent outbursts" intensify a tendency to blur fantasy and reality? I sometimes get the feeling it's just another video game to these maniacal killers.
Every racist I've ever seen says, "I'm not racist. I have lots of black (or white or Asian or whatever) friends." Psycho, yes. No rational person does what he did. But even psychos need a motivation to push them over the edge and for Dylann Roof it was race.
5.56mm
The very fact that they insist the flag come down, is reason enough to keep it up.
As another Son of the South - I say fly it!
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