It's just a matter of time...
Posted on 06/22/2015 10:13:56 AM PDT by GIdget2004
A source close to the situation says Gov. Nikki Haley is formulating a plan with State House leaders to remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds.
Details are limited, but Haley is holding a news conference on Monday at 4 p.m., according to a release from the governor's office.
The governor's office stopped short of saying the reasons for the news conference.
South Carolina House Speaker Jay Lucas has already called for "swift resolution" on the Confederate flag issue.
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And to replace it with what? The Mexican illegals’ flag? iSIS? Wow, really people?
This removal would only be from the Statehouse and official buildings, but not a ban on private use.
Sure, let’s destroy all the Confederate cemeteries, monuments, memorials, statues - plow them all under and pretend it all never happened. Ignorance is bliss, right? (no need to revise the history books, that’s already been done)
>> And a Republican Governor took it down, which promptly got him booted out of office and replaced by a Democrat who put it back up. <<
Same thing happened in Georgia that happened in South Carolina. A RAT governor put the confederate flag up, a GOP governor took it down. Unfortunately facts don't matter to the left (or the neo-confederates for that matter).
We can't say the "n" word. They tried to tell us we can't say "thug". We can't have Native Americans as sports symbols. SC can't fly the confederate flag?? Where does it end? The more you give those who are picking a fight, the more they'll want. What's next? Taking down statues to Civil War soldiers? who knows?
All I do know is that it's wrong for one group to take so much offense to symbols that other groups care about. The confederate flag is not primarily about slavery, and I say that as a northerner.
See post #21. The 1861 Palmetto Flag would be far more appropriate if the state wants to honor South Carolina "history". The Confederate Battle Flag wasn't put there until the 1960s. South Carolina never flew it during the civil war.
I was thinking SC Regimental flags should be used. Those are the flags that the soldiers being memorialized would of valued the most.
It’s just amazing how the church massacre talking points came out so fast. The dead weren’t even in the ground yet and the “national conversation” is about the confederate flag. Stunning really how quickly the left gets on message
I am of the opinion that the particular flag in question should be allowed to stay unless the legislature votes for its removal according to the law. However in the event it is removed, I agree that the 1861 Palmetto Flag would be a very appropriate replacement.
I’m not necessarily so stunned by how quickly the left gets its message going. What I’m more stunned by is how quickly the GOP/NRO-types capitulate and prostrate themselves before the left’s alter, pleading for absolvement.
Such gut-cringing cowardice just truly makes me want to vomit.
It wasn't put there until the 1960s - doubtful for "historical" reasons given the events of the time.
Historically, the folks who said the zeitgeist of the 1960s (and 1917) contained a whole lot that was bad were right. The bad includes cubic yards of Federal and state law that pretend to be about black folks' civil rights, but are in fact about a totalitarian, bureaucratic destruction of our Constitution that was carried on in black people's name, at their expense as well as that of whites and others. I see no reason to haul down that flag—which, in the context of the 1960s, rather than the 1860s, legitimately represents defiance against evil.
It's just a matter of time...
Oh, and I think it's interesting that 90% of the "protesters" are white, middle aged liberals.
Maybe make a deal. The flag will come down until there is a black on white rape or killing, then put it back up until the perp is sentenced.
David Beasley (R) didn’t actually remove the flag, he merely came out in favor of it’s removal. I believe the rat legislature tuned down his request.
The rat who beat him in 1998, Jim Hodges, avoiding mentioning the flag and played both sides.
Next up: renaming of Fort Hood. There were a few letters to the editor in 2013, not much came of it. I can see a rebirth of that notion.
Dixie Ping
I'm in agreement with you.
I also find it amusing that many of the freepers saying we can't let the media define the confederate flag as a symbol for slavery/racism were the first ones to HAPPILY embrace the term "red states" as a symbol for GOP/conservativism when it was always associated with tyrannical regimes and communism, which is why the leftist and liberal media wanted the GOP smeared as "red".
If we tell them we REFUSE to use the mainstream media's terminology and use "red states" as a euphemism for "Republican controlled state", they balk and whine that its already been accepted by the general public so we might as well embrace it and paint GOP elephants red.
They can't have it both ways. If you want to roll over for the concept of red=republican, then you have to roll over for confederate flag=racism. You can't pick and choose when to let the media redefine words.
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