The rally was held by locals and members of several Southern heritage organizations who oppose the recent removal of Confederate flags from a monument at the capitol honoring Confederate Civil War soldiers.
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According to a July 10 report by the Wall Street Journal, the flag’s new home will now be the confederate relic room in South Carolina’s state museum. The proposal cites the Confederate emblem on the banner as a symbol of hate.
Confederate flags and memorabilia were also banned for sale from many online store sites and retail stores themselves.
Isn’t it time to stop glorifying the Civil War?
Unfortunately, though the flag’s gone from the South Carolina capitol, the struggle over whose history matters will continue.
Crowds wanting to be part of the event gathered around the red battle flag with a blue cross (X) with 13 white stars representing each of the breakaway states on the State House grounds and jammed the lobby to witness the signing.
The fact that so many people, blacks and whites, Northerners and Southerners, wealthy and poor, wanted the flag removed aggravated me to such an extent that I finally researched the subject.
Sons of Confederate Veterans groups in states including Georgia and Virginia have pledged to fight to keep them.
This whole episode is really about the left jumping on every opportunity, or forcing opportunities, to change society into their leftist image – one without values, except, of course, theirs; one deplete of our historical American way of life; and one in which we can boldly move forward into the “brave new world order” of tomorrow.
“For almost 15 years we have specifically protested the flag by not allowing states like South Carolina to host pre-selected NCAA championships”.
The media came in, smeared the state and all of us in it, wanted the flag down immediately and too many of our leaders just went along.
Old South symbols have come under fresh scrutiny since the June 17 massacre of nine black worshippers at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. But anyone who reads the articles of secession adopted by the various Confederate states in 1861 will see specific references to slavery and to the central desire to defend it at all costs. And we saw during the House debate that a significant minority of our representatives have not undergone this transformation.
“It’s a great day in South Carolina“, Haley told NBC’s “Today” show host Matt Lauer on Friday. We applaud Governor Nikki Haley for her leadership and moral courage by changing her position and supporting the flag removal in the aftermath of tragedy.
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Those nine African-American Christians were killed because of the color of their skin and the hatred that consumed their attacker. Well maybe in their eyes it is, but in mines it’s not. Foody reported from Atlanta.
