Rally at Columbia SC state house Tomorrow afternoon “TAKE THE FLAG DOWN”

[Billy_Kinetta]

Uh, go to Drudge Report, click on any article, and read the comments.

How do you know they're Republicans? You know them personally?

 

[theHawk]

So it still looks like liberals are still ignoring the fact that the General Assembly of SC are the only ones with authority to vote on that Confederate flag being taken down, and they ended their session back on June 5th.

Phoney outrage is the best.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

In this time, one cannot rewrite history by simply burying it.

Also, it should be noted at the rally that the flag was a symbol of the Democrats.

But of course, it won't be.

A symbol of social conservatives more like. The evidence being that after the civil rights movement, republican social conservatives are the ones who continue to defend the flag.

Its a damn flag and part of our history

Yeah, it may be just a damn flag that's part of our history but so is....

Yup. Yet another Democrat-created hate group. You people really shit in the nest back then, and seem poised to do so again.

 

[Freewill]

So it still looks like liberals are still ignoring the fact that the General Assembly of SC are the only ones with authority to vote on that Confederate flag being taken down, and they ended their session back on June 5th.

Phoney outrage is the best.

Do you know if they voted to put it up? The governor couldn't issue some sort of executive order?

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

Of course it's not a coincidence. Republicans gave an option to Southern Democrats who hated the federal government for cramming integration down their throat. When Reagan declared war on the federal government it was music to the ears of Southerns. They deserted the Democratic Party in droves to vote the Republican party that promised to dismantle welfare, affirmative action, and even civil rights laws which they once supported. You need only look at the political map to see the results.

What an interesting little fantasy. Funny, I don't recall Bobby Byrd or Al Gore Sr. or Jim Eastland bolting to the Republican Party.

 

[Freewill]

Uh, go to Drudge Report, click on any article, and read the comments.

How do you know they're Republicans? You know them personally?

Considering the number of left wingers that know exactly what and who is posting on Drudge it is not obvious who are making the comments.

 

[Freewill]

OK, I found the answer, it is in law that the flag flies.

Part of the answer is political. The South Carolina Heritage Act of 2000stipulated that the Confederate flag would be removed from the capitol dome itself, but would be flown nearby at the Confederate Soldiers’ Monument, on the Statehouse grounds. It’s literally locked into place—State Representative Leon Howard told TIME that that the flag is padlocked to the flagpole to prevent tampering or removal.

Charleston Shooting Why Confederate Flag Flies in South Carolina

As stated before, most flags are now "padlocked."

That said, is there anything in the law that states that the flag can't be lowered? Isn't there laws that state that the US flag will be the highest flag flying?

 

[CrusaderFrank]

Like their Tuskegee Experiments, the Confederate Flag is a part of the Democrat Party history they'd rather have us forget

 

[Stephanie]

I see this is coming from the NAACP.

what a useless organization. I guess they're trying to save face after they got caught pulling the wool over YOUR EYES with the fake black woman. so what do they do. ........go after a frikken flag.............our tax dollars needs to stop going to this group of nothing but Agitators stirring up hate

Booker T. has them begged along with Sharpton, Jackson, the Obama's

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

In this time, one cannot rewrite history by simply burying it.

Also, it should be noted at the rally that the flag was a symbol of the Democrats.

But of course, it won't be.

A symbol of social conservatives more like. The evidence being that after the civil rights movement, republican social conservatives are the ones who continue to defend the flag.

Its a damn flag and part of our history

A history tied to the hatred black people have faced in this country. Leaving that one at full mast in the wake of a racially motivated massacre while lowering the others, and on the grounds of the state capitol no less, is at the least embarassing and at worst a message to black people to remind them there are still people in this country that don't mind them getting slaughtered every once in a while.

It should be up to the people. Black and white.

 

[Katzndogz]

Well a few months ago they were hating on Indiana. Now they have SC in their hate sight. WHAT A LIFE

Guno mad over the death of Christians. You buying into that?

No.

 

[theHawk]

So it still looks like liberals are still ignoring the fact that the General Assembly of SC are the only ones with authority to vote on that Confederate flag being taken down, and they ended their session back on June 5th.

Phoney outrage is the best.

Do you know if they voted to put it up? The governor couldn't issue some sort of executive order?

Nope, the governor has no legal authority on it. Not that progs care about law.

 

[Flopper]

People can read what they want into anything. But unlike the Nazi flag the confederate flag was based on the misguided beliefs that were lead astray by the rich democrat aristocrats. What I find amazing is that there are so many today that still buy into the BS that the white aristocrat sold their great grandparents so they would march in to cannon fire.

Wow you come so close to making a point and then your ODS takes over and you inject politics and knee jerk blame Democrats. Fine I'll go there, in case you haven't noticed, it is REPUBLICANS who embrace the flag and the confederacy now. How do you feel about that?

Racist Democrats never decided to switch parties and go with the Party who freed the slaves and outlawed Jim Crowe laws. That's idiotic thinking on your part and you're not alone.

When I was a kid growing up I was very proud to be part of a republican family. I didn't know anything about politics, but my parents were feircely republican. My family is Cuban you see, and view the Democrats as evil. But then I lived through the Bush Presidency, and I saw the hatred and vitriol that is the foundation of the modern GOP.

So I connected the dots, and I imagine that's what Democrats during the civil rights movement must have been like; hateful, bitter people. Then if you look at the states and counties that once railed against the civil rights movement, somehow they are all republican dominated now. I can't believe that somehow that's just a coincidence.

Of course it's not a coincidence. Republicans gave an option to Southern Democrats who hated the federal government for cramming integration down their throat. When Reagan declared war on the federal government it was music to the ears of Southerns. They deserted the Democratic Party in droves to vote the Republican party that promised to dismantle welfare, affirmative action, and even civil rights laws which they once supported. You need only look at the political map to see the results.

Yet none of that happened, boy did they get ripped off. The reason the south turn red is hatred for democrats that think their stuff don't stink.

And they hated northern Democrats because of the likes of JFK and Johnson who stomped all over what they considered the southern way of life, segregation, Jim Crow laws, and racial discrimination in every aspect of life. The Republican Party had never been the party choice for southerns. The South carried a hundreds years of hate for the party of Lincoln. However with the national Democratic party's position on civil rights, voting Republican was seen as the best of two bad choices. In the sixties they began voting Republic in national elections. As more and more blacks became voting Democrats and winning seats in government, they began supporting Republicans in local and state elections. Today, all governors in the South with the exception of Kentucky are Republican. With the exception of Kentucky and Virginia, every southern state legislature is controlled by Republicans. Prior to the civil rights movement in the mid 1950's every governorship and every state legislature in the deep south were Democrat. Today they are all Republican.

 

[AvgGuyIA]

The social conservatives who are part of the republican base are some scary people. They have a lot of hate in their hearts, and there are a lot of prominent conservative mouthpieces fomenting that hate.

. BlackFlag
The relatives of the murdered Charleston Christians who forgave Roof and asked mercy on his soul were social conservatives. I can see why your ilk would find them scary. Much the pity on the likes of you. You're not worthy to walk in their shadow.

 

[Flopper]

Time for a history lesson, or actually a test:

HistoryTest
BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in history and who spent record money education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

NOTE: All answers are "b."


10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word] preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president and the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


14. What is the Party of the late Senators Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina while governor, and Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


17. What Party is against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party

If you answered b to all of the above you did quite well.

HistoryTest National Black Republican Association

And who ran on the Southern Strategy in 1964, promising Southern whites that a Republican federal government would do less to interfere with southern discrimination against and disenfranchisement of blacks?

 

[Flopper]

In this time, one cannot rewrite history by simply burying it.

Also, it should be noted at the rally that the flag was a symbol of the Democrats.

But of course, it won't be.

A symbol of social conservatives more like. The evidence being that after the civil rights movement, republican social conservatives are the ones who continue to defend the flag.

Its a damn flag and part of our history

Yeah, it may be just a damn flag that's part of our history but so is....

Yup. Yet another Democrat-created hate group. You people really shit in the nest back then, and seem poised to do so again.

And they are all lily white Republicans today.

 

[Lakhota]

 

[Lakhota]

 

[AvgGuyIA]

Time for a history lesson, or actually a test:

HistoryTest
BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

1. What Party was founded as the anti-slavery Party and fought to free blacks from slavery?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


2. What was the Party of Abraham Lincoln who signed the emancipation proclamation that resulted in the Juneteenth celebrations that occur in black communities today?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


3. What Party passed the Thirteenth, Fourteenth, and Fifteenth Amendments to the U. S. Constitution granting blacks freedom, citizenship, and the right to vote?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


4. What Party passed the Civil Rights Acts of 1866 and 1875 granting blacks protection from the Black Codes and prohibiting racial discrimination in public accommodations, and was the Party of most blacks prior to the 1960’s, including Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Sojourner Truth, Booker T. Washington, and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


5. What was the Party of the founding fathers of the NAACP?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


6. What was the Party of President Dwight Eisenhower who sent U.S. troops to Arkansas to desegregate schools, established the Civil Rights Commission in 1958, and appointed Chief Justice Earl Warren to the U.S. Supreme Court which resulted in the 1954 Brown v. Board of Education decision ending school segregation?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


7. What Party, by the greatest percentage, passed the Civil Rights Acts of the 1950’s and 1960’s?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


8. What was the Party of President Richard Nixon who instituted the first Affirmative Action program in 1969 with the Philadelphia Plan that established goals and timetables?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


9. What is the Party of President George W. Bush who appointed more blacks to high-level positions than any president in history and who spent record money education, job training and health care to help black Americans prosper?

[ ] a. Democratic Party

[ ] b. Republican Party


BLACK POLITICAL HISTORY: THE UNTOLD STORY

NOTE: All answers are "b."


10. What Party fought to keep blacks in slavery and was the Party of the Ku Klux Klan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


11. What Party from 1870 to 1930 used fraud, whippings, lynching, murder, intimidation, and mutilation to get the black vote, and passed the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws which legalized racial discrimination and denied blacks their rights as citizens?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


12. What was the Party of President Franklin D. Roosevelt and President Harry Truman who rejected anti-lynching laws and efforts to establish a permanent Civil Rights Commission?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


13. What was the Party of President Lyndon Johnson, who called Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. “that [N-word] preacher” because he opposed the Viet Nam War; and President John F. Kennedy who voted against the 1957 Civil Rights law as a Senator, then as president opposed the 1963 March on Washington by Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. after becoming president and the FBI investigate Dr. King on suspicion of being a communist?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


14. What is the Party of the late Senators Robert Byrd who was a member of the Ku Klux Klan, Ernest “Fritz” Hollings who hoisted the Confederate flag over the state capitol in South Carolina while governor, and Ted Kennedy who called black judicial nominees “Neanderthals” while blocking their appointments?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


15. What was the Party of President Bill Clinton who failed to fight the terrorists after the first bombing of the World Trade Center in 1993, sent troops to war in Bosnia and Kosovo without Congressional approval, vetoed the Welfare Reform law twice before signing it, and refused to comply with a court order to have shipping companies develop an Affirmative Action Plan?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


16. What is the Party of Vice President Al Gore whose father voted against the Civil Rights Acts of the 1960’s, and who lost the 2000 election as confirmed by a second recount of Florida votes by the “Miami Herald” and a consortium of major news organizations and the ruling by the U.S. Civil Rights Commission that blacks were not denied the right to vote?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party


17. What Party is against school vouchers, against school prayers, and takes the black vote for granted without ever acknowledging their racist past or apologizing for trying to expand slavery, lynching blacks and passing the Black Codes and Jim Crow laws that caused great harm to blacks?

[ ] a. Republican Party

[ ] b. Democratic Party

If you answered b to all of the above you did quite well.

HistoryTest National Black Republican Association

And who ran on the Southern Strategy in 1964, promising Southern whites that a Republican federal government would do less to interfere with southern discrimination against and disenfranchisement of blacks?

Look at all the southern states that voted for Jimmy Carter. Explain that away. Fact is, when republicans took over the Southern State legislatures, blacks thrived as never before under the rule of racist Democrats. Own your fuckin' heritage and quit pushing it on the GOP.

 

[Billy_Kinetta]

And who ran on the Southern Strategy in 1964, promising Southern whites that a Republican federal government would do less to interfere with southern discrimination against and disenfranchisement of blacks?

Indeed. That was when Exalted Cyclops Bobby Byrd, Al Gore Sr., Jim Eastland and all those other nasty racist Democrats who opposed the Civil Rights Act ran off and joined the Republican Party.

I remember it as if it were yesterday.