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Confederate flags burned and monuments defaced as South Carolina protesters lash out in wake..
dailymail.co.uk ^ | June 21, 2015 | Chris Spargo and Mia De Graaf

Posted on 06/21/2015 6:07:40 PM PDT by PROCON

Edited on 06/21/2015 6:29:18 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

Protesters in South Carolina have begun burning Confederate flags and defacing monuments as the debate as to whether or not the flag should fly over the state's capital intensifies in the wake of Wednesday's brutal massacre that saw nine people murdered because they were black.


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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: confederateflag; dixie; dylannroof; protesters; racism
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Uh, I believe MA was the first “state” to outlaw it?

You may believe it but you are wrong.

Massachusetts was the first colony with slaves and they were the center of the slave trade for years.

Massachusetts never outlawed slavery and it wasn't until 1865 that it was abolished by the 13th amendment.

The northerners and the teachers' union didn't want you to know that.

81 posted on 06/21/2015 7:23:01 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: ladyjane

I think they still have a state church statute too


82 posted on 06/21/2015 7:23:52 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: ladyjane

There has long been something unbalanced about Massachusetts.


83 posted on 06/21/2015 7:24:15 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: ladyjane

Also the first gay marriage state


84 posted on 06/21/2015 7:24:50 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: PROCON

Don’t people realize that people died for their beliefs under that flag? They are poking a hornets nest.


85 posted on 06/21/2015 7:24:58 PM PDT by dila813
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To: ladyjane
They sold their own children into slavery.

ANIMALS!

86 posted on 06/21/2015 7:25:12 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ladyjane

It was a “soft bigotry of low expectations” that, in part, made it possible.

I wonder if Jefferson would have dared own slaves, had not first black slave owners been permitted to carry on their nefarious trade.


87 posted on 06/21/2015 7:27:14 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

Gay marriage in Massachusetts because of a South African born Massachusetts Supreme Court justice.


88 posted on 06/21/2015 7:29:18 PM PDT by ladyjane
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
The thing is, the US flag is the flag of slavery, too.

No it isn't.

The US Flag represents the original revolution against the King, and all the people of the 50 states...regardless of creed or ethnicity.

89 posted on 06/21/2015 7:31:11 PM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
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To: ladyjane

And who permitted this personage through its doors...


90 posted on 06/21/2015 7:32:17 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
The thing is, the US flag is the flag of slavery, too

A bit of historical irony. The very day that the confederate flag came down over Columbia, and the same day Columbia was burned to the ground by Union soldiers, who slashed the fire hoses of the fire brigades, 20 black women were raped by Union soldiers and one black woman was murdered. No white women were raped, because citizens kept firearms and because of the southern code of honor. It is part of he historical record. They never taught this in high school.

So much for the Union loving black people.

91 posted on 06/21/2015 7:35:21 PM PDT by The_Media_never_lie (The media must be defeated any way it can be done.)
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To: miss marmelstein
Soros hires ‘young people’ because it tricks the gullible press into believing it's 1968 - forever. Yeah all the 'reporters' are down with the struggle'...

The people mourning at the Church are far more representative of the real black community than the ‘AstroTurf’ protesters.

92 posted on 06/21/2015 7:37:01 PM PDT by GOPJ
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To: PROCON

The real American Taliban stands up


93 posted on 06/21/2015 7:37:08 PM PDT by GeronL
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Something juicy like this and a claim of the historical record but no citation.

How odd.


94 posted on 06/21/2015 7:39:20 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: Paulie

Bingo. Obama’s henchmen need to focus the hate. They’ve chosen the Confederate Flag as their target, but the dog whistle is “all Republicans are racists”.


95 posted on 06/21/2015 7:40:26 PM PDT by Flick Lives ("I can't believe it's not Fascism!")
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To: Flick Lives

It may eventually begin to fail, but while they can milk it for any chaos they will.


96 posted on 06/21/2015 7:41:55 PM PDT by HiTech RedNeck (Embrace the Lion of Judah and He will roar for you and teach you to roar too. See my page.)
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To: stockpirate

In South Carolina no permit is required to carry a handgun in your glovebox. Been that way since 1965.

You may not be interested in a race war, but race war is interested in you. Best to go somewhere to practice firing both inside & outside your vehicle, moving or stopped.

Pointing your weapon may not be enough to defuse a situation. `Ganja’ tends to degrade the ability to apply reason.

Just saying. There are those who feel they now have a license to kill.


97 posted on 06/21/2015 7:46:14 PM PDT by elcid1970 ("The Second Amendment is more important than Islam.")
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To: GOPJ

I ran across this song done between a black father and son..both singing to one another....Now this is productive and touching stuff! 6 million hits on it...wish the black community could get the press to show more like it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?t=181&v=RbqF6Xv1mNU


98 posted on 06/21/2015 7:52:46 PM PDT by caww
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To: Captain Jack Aubrey
>> The Confederate flag is no more the flag of slavery than the US flag. <<

The Confederate Constitution declared slavery to be an eternal "right" that CANNOT be abolished.

The U.S. Constitution did not.

99 posted on 06/21/2015 7:53:16 PM PDT by BillyBoy (Impeach Obama? Yes We Can!)
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To: HiTech RedNeck

My neighbor is an alcoholic who sometimes drives drunk. I guess that makes me guilty.


100 posted on 06/21/2015 7:54:25 PM PDT by BykrBayb (Where there is life, there is hope. - Terri Schiavo ~ Þ)
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