Posted on 06/24/2015 10:48:57 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Less than a week after nine people were fatally shot in Charleston’s Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, leaders at The Citadel have voted to remove a Confederate Naval Jack flag from the campus chapel.
Dylann Storm Roof, who has been charged in the shootings, was previously photographed posing with the Confederate flag. Many national businesses have vowed to stop selling Confederate merchandise, and hundreds of people rallied in Columbia to remove the Confederate battle flag from the S.C. Statehouse grounds. Lawmakers are expected to debate the flag’s location this summer.
One of the victims of the shooting was a Citadel Graduate College alumnus, and six Citadel employees lost family members, according to a statement issued by Citadel President Lt. Gen. John W. Rosa. The statement did not identify which victims were connected to the school.
“This has been a difficult week for our community and state,” Rosa said. “The Emanuel AME Church is our neighbor, and we consider it a part of our extended Citadel family.”
The Citadel’s board of visitors voted 9-3 Tuesday evening to move the Confederate Naval Jack from Summerall Chapel to an “appropriate location on campus,” Rosa said. Before it can be moved though, state legislators must amend the S.C. Heritage Act.
(Excerpt) Read more at charlestonbusiness.com ...
The Citadel, The Military College of South Carolina, commonly referred to simply as The Citadel, is a state-supported, comprehensive college located in Charleston, South Carolina, United States. Established in 1842, it is one of the six Senior Military Colleges in the United States.
It has 17 academic departments divided into five schools offering 19 majors and 36 minors. The core day program consists of military cadets pursuing bachelor’s degrees who are required to live on campus for four years while The Citadel Graduate College offers evening graduate programs, and non-cadet undergraduate degree programs. The Citadel is accredited by the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools.
... what is the point of The Citadel? Why have a Citadel?
In short, they’re going to have to change the state flags of Arkansas, Georgia, Mississippi and Virginia—all have strong references to the Confederacy.
I’m sure the Citadel has a Roll of Honor plaque for the Citadel students who joined the Confederacy and died for the cause..
Will they go as far as taking that down ???
Sickness is here. Stupid communists liberals will destroy much of American history. They already destroyed schools teaching anything not to their liking. America is sick! If it were not for slavery maybe we would not have so many blacks occupying America today. Maybe the slavery should have been left to the African nations that practiced it before it was brought to America. Slavery was on the Earth since almost the beginning of time.
Revisionist history will eventually have the Citadel cadets as firing the first shots on Ft Sumter as a college prank.
Use of the Confederate Flag by a insane person certainly deflects from his manifesto as his excuse citing the assults and murders of completely innocent whites, “hispanics, and asians, committed by black youths and their reason for the cold blood killing of Treyvon Martin. Doesn’t it ?
Should it be allowed to ?
As the government started sticking its nose into our tents and lives the use of the Confederate Battle Flag was simply used as a popularized emblem of defiance and protest. To many that display it that was never considered to be because one supported racism although some displaying it do. But those that do so also probably would deny supporting slavery of people of any form including people with black skin.
Use of it as a choice symbol of protest though, runs the risk of a viewer comming to that conclusion. But it should be pointed out that blacks also fought and died on the side of the Confederacy . In the view of the southerners while that greatest loss of life as a result of that conflict. It was not just about the abolition of slavery as it is currently being poltically correctly explained and used. And any move to ban its use should be considered a violation of the Constitutional free speech amendments.
The cross of St. Andrew, or so-called Southern Cross, was removed from the Georgia state flag in 2001.
Yes but the current flag is essentially the state seal on the first national confederate flag. Im betting its down ny next week.
You don't even want to know how far they are prepared to go.
If all these people , from the governor of South Carolina to the leaders of The Citadel feel this way now, where were they prior to all of this? Did they give their tacit support to this particular flag or are they just caving to popular(and cheap) sentiment? seems to me it’s the latter.
Texas too
You are correct on point 1, and most likely will be proven correct on point 2.
What are you complaining about? They’re officially Confederacy haters.
You were just ahead of the curve in being the mainstream of the Republican Party.
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It’s a South Carloina issue...why don’t you both stay the hell out of it?
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