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Even Murdoch's New York Post is calling for the Confederate Flag to be taken down.
Hey, South Carolina — it’s time to take down the Stars & Bars
By Post Editorial Board
The only flag flying full-staff on the grounds of South Carolina’s Capitol in the wake of Wednesday’s massacre of nine black people in a Charleston church was the Confederate one.
Time to take it down, folks.
In the Palmetto State, the Stars and Bars has flown on the statehouse grounds — and originally over the Capitol itself — since 1959. Yes, the South has changed. South Carolina has a black US senator and a governor “of color,” Indian-American Nikki Haley. But that flag’s still there, even if the state handed off responsibility to an outside body.
Yes, some white Southerners point to it as a symbol of regional pride. But it represented a bloody rebellion against the United States in defense of slavery. Symbolism is what the whole controversy is about, to both sides. Many blacks consider it akin to flying the Nazi swastika; others, perhaps less offended, still know what it’s really meant to denote for plenty of its fans. That’s why accused killer Dylann Roof’s car sported a vanity license plate with the Stars and Bars, emblazoned “Confederate States of America.”
http://nypost.com/2015/06/19/hey-south-carolina-its-time-to-take-down-the-stars-bars/
By Post Editorial Board
The only flag flying full-staff on the grounds of South Carolina’s Capitol in the wake of Wednesday’s massacre of nine black people in a Charleston church was the Confederate one.
Time to take it down, folks.
In the Palmetto State, the Stars and Bars has flown on the statehouse grounds — and originally over the Capitol itself — since 1959. Yes, the South has changed. South Carolina has a black US senator and a governor “of color,” Indian-American Nikki Haley. But that flag’s still there, even if the state handed off responsibility to an outside body.
Yes, some white Southerners point to it as a symbol of regional pride. But it represented a bloody rebellion against the United States in defense of slavery. Symbolism is what the whole controversy is about, to both sides. Many blacks consider it akin to flying the Nazi swastika; others, perhaps less offended, still know what it’s really meant to denote for plenty of its fans. That’s why accused killer Dylann Roof’s car sported a vanity license plate with the Stars and Bars, emblazoned “Confederate States of America.”
http://nypost.com/2015/06/19/hey-south-carolina-its-time-to-take-down-the-stars-bars/
Encouraging.
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