“The state of Mississippi now remains the sole state in our country to embrace a symbol of war, hate and a failed attempt to perpetuate its right to slavery, into its flag while regarding it as ‘heritage, ‘ despite inflicting degradation upon its citizen descendants of slaves”, the civil rights organization said in a resolution it adopted Tuesday at its national convention in Pennsylvania.
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The South Carolina House of Representatives voted 94-20 to remove the Confederate battle flag from public spaces including state Capitol grounds. The flag ended up being transported to the nearby Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum.
A number of big name companies, such as Ebay and Walmart, have vowed to pull products sporting the flag from their shelves. Except, the flag flown in Charleston that day was not one of the three national flags of the Confederacy. Maybe this is what the alleged deranged young shooter thought it was, but it certainly isn’t how most Southerners or Northerners saw it. The catalyst for the change came after a brutal shooting that left nine people dead at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina.
As previously reported by the Inquisitr, Haley had a slightly different perspective before the shooting, actively deflecting questions about the Confederate battle flag with economic issues.
Pinkney was one of the victims killed during the massacre.
The alleged shooter was able to purchase a. 45 caliber Glock semi-auto pistol through an error in the national background check system due to an information disconnect between police departments and counties.
She also attacked the Federal Bureau of Investigation on Meet the Press after the agency admitted that the shooter, Dylan Roof, should have never received a gun due to a previous criminal charge for drug possession. Now that it’s gone, maybe we can get some college championship sports here.
Henkel says her flag is the American flag, and honoring her family does not make her or others racist.
“So next time, are they going to take that monument down?” Would we be calling for the removal of the American flag? Gov. Nikki Haley’s quick action to bring down the Stars and Bars in the aftermath of the tragedy demonstrated the sensitivity and common sense we expect of our political leaders. This revisionist history is getting a little out of hand.
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For me – I am white – the survey results help explain how this flag, a symbol that I associate more with the forces of bigotry and hate than ancestry and heritage, could survive to still be a state symbol in so many places 150 years after the end of the Civil War. The fact that sectional debates and conflicts over states rights occurred because of slavery was de-emphasized. Many people who look like me just didn’t see it “that way”.
