Posted on 06/23/2015 8:29:31 PM PDT by drewh
As lawmakers across the South spoke out against the Confederate battle flag and the nations largest retailers pulled items with its image from their shelves, Hillary Rodham Clinton on Tuesday called the flag a symbol of our nations racist past.
Speaking at an African-American church just outside Ferguson, Mo., an impoverished black community where protests against a mostly white police force erupted in violence last summer, Mrs. Clinton made a forceful plea to remove the Confederate flag wherever it flew. And she encouraged other retailers to follow Amazon, Walmart, eBay and Sears in discontinuing sales of items that display the flag.
It shouldnt fly there. It shouldnt fly anywhere, Mrs. Clinton said of South Carolina, where a white gunman killed nine African-Americans last Wednesday during a Bible study session at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.
Several retailers have decided they will no longer sell such merchandise because of the church killings in Charleston, S.C. That night, word of the killings struck like a blow to the soul, she said. How do we make sense of such an evil act an act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God?
Mrs. Clintons emphasis on race has been largely motivated by current events, with her campaign unfolding against the backdrop of riots in Baltimore this spring after the death of a black man who had been in police custody and, more immediately, the slaughter in Charleston.
Mrs. Clintons approach also distinguishes her from her potential Republican rivals who have mostly only dipped a cautious toe into issues of racism. Candid talks like the one in Florissant could help Mrs. Clinton shore up support among the Democratic Partys base who overwhelmingly supported Barack Obama during her failed 2008 presidential campaign.
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The war on women didn’t work last year. So Dems need another issue to get R’s all tongue tied about.
How *do* we make sense of such racist terrorism?
http://www.catholic.org/news/international/middle_east/story.php?id=38976
That night, word of the killings struck like a blow to the soul, she said. How do we make sense of such an evil act an act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God?
Like you really give a damn, Hillary.
Fake Phony Fraud.
I thought you put two pics together. Now I see that it is one image that needs wide distribution......
so is Hillary going to stop Lynryd Skynryd from flying it or stop numerous rednecks in my area from flying it in their yards? The confederate flag is a symbol of the confederacy and the War between the States not racism. A symbol of racism is the DNC.
In looking for more Obama pictures I found a really shocking one that I will not post. Do a search and you will know what I am talking about. No one should post it here.
Oh heck no.
There’s a slew of Obeyme/rebel flags on ebay.
Seems they’re not selling so well, though.
Here’s a no-hope version.
You will be shocked to hear that Skynyrd stopped flying it *years* ago.
PC ate them wild eyed Southern boys in 2012.
As she spoke on this issue, I am assuming she avoided using her convenient southern drawl......probably brought out the angry elitist from DC accent.
Using similar reasoning,she shouldn’t be campaigning for office anywhere either.
Reference Fawcett Movie Comic #14-1951. Ronald Reagan rides his personally named horse across a stream on the inside back cover—Confederate flag flying. The movie color of his horse is black—the comic book color is white. Tar Baby has two colors.
Yea, no one could make this stuff up. At least it entertains the American sheeple.
How about removing all symbols of the confederacy? Then we can remove all works of known racists. Where will it end?
Hillaryous Rotten Criminal said that? Isn’t it ironic coming from the co-conspirtator of America’s Greatest Crime Family.
This Confederate flag flap should be turned around on the Democrats. It’s a symbol of their history. Make it loud, and clear.
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