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You just demonstrated the bigoted selective reference of bastardized use of the flag while disregarding its actual heritage.Another freedom lost to liberal PC nonsense. ......
A little history lesson on the flying of the Confederate Battle Flag at South Carolina State Capitol, first flown as the Battle Flag of the Army of Northern of Virginia.
1 South Carolina seceded in 1860 with a declaration drafted by Christopher Memminger due "to increasing hostility on the part of non slave holding states to the institution of slavery"
2. South Carolinian secessionist Edmund Ruffin fired the first shot of the Civil War in Charleston, South Carolina
3. The Stars and Bars was flown as the rallying cry of Confederate troops.
3. The Civil War ended June 17, 1865 and Ruffin wrapped himself in the Confederate Battle Flag and blew his brains out.
4. The flags were folded up and kept in the closet and appropriately used at memorials or cemeteries for the brave men the pansy ass plantation owners sent to be slaughtered, the majority by hunger and disease and not battle.
5. There was no need to fly the flag for the next 70 years as Jim Crow reigned unchallenged. African Americans that challenged Jim Crow hung by nooses from tall trees
6. In the late 1940s the Dixiecrats revolted against Harry Truman when he desegregated the armed forces and supported anti lynching bills. The flag was once again waved at their opposition rallies. At the Democratic convention in July 1948 9 southern states backed our Senator Richard Russell over Truman and Confederate Battle Flags were waving to the sound of Dixie. Later in Birmingham Alabama they nominated Strom Thurmond of South Carolina. Sales of the Battle Flag exploded in the south.
7. Over the next decade the flag was a staple of Klan rallies.
8. In 1961 South Carolina in defiance to being forced to integrate their schools took out the Confederate Battle Flag that had not flown on state property in 79 years and flew it to show their support of segregation and separate but equal.
What in the hell is wrong with allowing black kids to go to white schools and end segregation? That is why the flag was flown after 79 years and that is why it should be taken down. I have no problems with memorials and cemetery respect for the Confederate soldiers that fell and were abandoned by the wealthy plantation class that ran an entire economic system on slave labor.
Uh, the thread is the flying of the flag at SC State Capitol which has nothing to do with heritage.
If it had anything to do with heritage how come SC never flew that flag from 1865-1961.
I am as southern as it gets, born and raised in deep south and lived here for all of my 60+ years.
Your bunk about the flying of the stars and bars at SC State Capitol because of heritage is steaming Bull Shit.
Heritage is when we bring the flag out for ceremonies at memorials and cemeteries for our fallen who the Confederate leaders, not their military, sent to starve to death and die of disease.
I know heritage and also know South Carolina brought it back in 1961 after 96 years because of their opposition to integration.
Claiming that was heritage is selective bastardized use of what really happened.
Just saw former Congressman Ben 'Cooter' Jones on CNN, and he tore the host up over blaming the flag for what happened.