Charleston officials say they will defy South Carolina law and remove statue of slavery advocate John C. Calhoun on the fifth anniversary of the massacre of black church members by a white supremacist

UK Daily Mail ^ | June 18, 2020 | Rachel Sharp

[C19fan]

Charleston officials have said they will defy South Carolina law and remove a statue of slavery advocate John C. Calhoun, on what marks the fifth anniversary of the massacre of black church members by a white supremacist in the state. Mayor John Tecklenburg announced Wednesday he will send a resolution to the City Council to remove the statue at Francis Marion Square 'not to erase our long and often tragic history but to begin to write a new and more equitable future.' 'We are taking this action only after careful consideration of the facts of Mr. Calhoun's life,' the mayor said.

[C19fan]

If one read Calhoun's political theories without context he is regarded as one of the best in American history. But all this intelligence was used to justify the Slave Power. He also represented the shift in thinking of slavery as evil and should whither away to slavery being a positive good.

[2banana]

So...we all can pick and choose which laws to follow?

Pretty cool.

[ClearCase_guy]

The law is “whatever”.

With COVID-19, many states just skipped over their legislative branch and had the Governor write any law he wanted.
Judges legislate from the bench all the time. The Supreme Court did it this week.
And here we have state officials just deciding, “Heck, let’s defy the law if it will appease the communists who want to destroy the country”.

We have a republic when we have Rule of Law and depend upon written laws that are equally applied to all.

What we have today is an Oligarchy — Rule of Men. Powerful people do whatever they can get away with.

[real saxophonist]

[MissEdie]

Does this mean they are changing the name of the street this church is on also? It’s Calhoun Street after all.

[EEGator]

Roof was a pretty crappy White Supremacist.
Didn’t he hang out with Blacks?

[EEGator]

He looks like a combination of Einstein and Willem Dafoe...

[redshawk]

So what happens to those whose family name is Calhoun? Are they now banned from the state?

[stylin19a]

if there's no consequences for breaking them...

Rivers urged Charleston leaders to defy the Heritage Act - which does not include penalties for breaking it - and remove Calhoun's statue.

[Cronos]

Strange - the statue was erected in 1896 - I wonder who did that. Democrats no doubt

[real saxophonist]

[DEPcom]

“So what happens to those whose family name is Calhoun? Are they now banned from the state?”

I wonder if they are going to demand the family graves be dug up.

[Leep]

They have no choice but lynch them.
It’s only fair.

[Leep]

They have no choice but TO lynch them.
It’s only fair.

[SES1066]

Just continue on and rename/remove EVERYTHING to satisfy this Cancel Culture, a domestic name for the well-known ‘un-personing’ done through history. We used to laugh at Stalin’s air-brushing of former comrades when such pictures became ‘inconvenient’! Orwell’s ‘1984’ is a WARNING not an INSTRUCTION MANUAL!

[Lurkinanloomin]

Thank you Nikki Haley.

[Stravinsky]

Their revolution continues. And no, the law means nothing anymore.

[elcid1970]

Charlestonians are strange people, going back centuries. If you’re born & raised anywhere else in South Carolina you will know this.

Old joke: Why are Charlestonians like the Chinese?

They eat rice, worship their ancestors, and speak an almost unintelligible language.

Wanna know how you can visit a foreign country without ever leaving the state? See above.

[DoodleDawg]

So...we all can pick and choose which laws to follow?

Why not? Calhoun did.

[2banana]

Cool.

The mob will be over to your house to loot what they want.

“Why not? Calhoun did.”