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Black lawmakers call for removal of Confederate flag on government property
The Hill ^ | June 25, 2015 | Cristina Marcos

Posted on 06/26/2015 6:54:02 AM PDT by C19fan

Members of the Congressional Black Caucus are calling for a national ban on the use of the Confederate flag on any government property — including license plates.

The CBC lawmakers introduced a resolution Thursday in the aftermath of last week's racially motivated shooting during Bible study at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C., that killed nine people.

"A hate crime of this nature must lead to effective legislation that will curtail similar incidences in the future," CBC Chairman G.K. Butterfield (D-N.C.) said in a statement.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


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KEYWORDS: carolinashooting; confederate; confederateflag; dixie; lookaflag; revisionisthistory; thuggery
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Confederate flags are among the flags that fly over Fort Sumter acknowledging which side had control of the Fort over the years. So I guess according to Rep. Butterfield those need to go down. I was at the 150th anniversary of Lee's surrender at Appomattox Court House. Appomattox is part of the National Park Service. There were Confederate reenactors flying Confederate flags so in the future only Union reenactors will be allowed to to be at Appomattox or any other NPS battlefield that hosts reenactors.
1 posted on 06/26/2015 6:54:02 AM PDT by C19fan
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We reached the point of cultural genocide. There is now only a difference of degree not kind between what is going on and being proposed and what ISIS has done to historical sites.


2 posted on 06/26/2015 6:55:23 AM PDT by C19fan
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Their narrowmindedness is eclipsed only by their unoriginality.


3 posted on 06/26/2015 6:55:54 AM PDT by relictele (Principiis obsta & Finem respice - Resist The Beginnings & Consider The Ends)
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Obama will require by EO when they do future reenactments, they carry the gay pride flag.


4 posted on 06/26/2015 6:56:05 AM PDT by mothball
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To: C19fan

‘Cultural Cleansing’ has come to America.
Can ‘Political Cleansing’ or ‘Ideological Cleansing’ be far behind?.........................


5 posted on 06/26/2015 6:57:03 AM PDT by Red Badger (Man builds a ship in a bottle. God builds a universe in the palm of His hand.............)
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Six Flags theme parks will have to change their name to Five Flags.


6 posted on 06/26/2015 6:57:44 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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it is past time to remove Martin Luther King day as a national holiday.

Such a holiday is offensive to real Americans


7 posted on 06/26/2015 6:58:34 AM PDT by bert ((K.E.; N.P.; GOPc.;+12, 73, ..... No peace? then no peace!)
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White people call for the removal of black lawmakers from our Legislature

OK ... maybe not ...

But THIS white man is pretty fed up with the whole black assault on any and every thing American and white.

8 posted on 06/26/2015 6:58:35 AM PDT by knarf (I say things that are true .... I have no proof ... but they're true)
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Shouldn't that be the 'Congressional Racist Caucus'?

Wonder what the outrage would be if we had a triple C in Congresss...The Congressional Caucasian Caucus..

Black privilege in Congress, no doubt about it

F'in thugs..

9 posted on 06/26/2015 6:59:13 AM PDT by SGCOS
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"A hate crime of this nature must lead to effective legislation that will curtail similar incidences in the future,"

This legislation will do nothing to curtail similar instances.

10 posted on 06/26/2015 6:59:36 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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have to chip those flags off gravestones in civil war cemeteries too.


11 posted on 06/26/2015 6:59:37 AM PDT by dila813
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Then their idea of racism will be done and over with, right?


12 posted on 06/26/2015 7:00:10 AM PDT by jughandle (Big words anger me, keep talking.)
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4 flags. Get rid of the Mexico flag. There are those who want the South (of the border) to rise again and “reconquer” what was lost in 1836 when they lost the war.


13 posted on 06/26/2015 7:01:04 AM PDT by a fool in paradise (Funny how Hollywood's 'No Nukes' crowd has been silent during Obama's Iranian nuclear negotiations.)
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So the Union re-enactors will defeat and take prisoner the Gay re-enactors? That would be great press!

“Hands up, Johnny Gay, time to go to your prison cell!”


14 posted on 06/26/2015 7:01:38 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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Something just struck me.

The underlying assumption for all these issues is the belief that racism is the worst of all possible crimes.

Nobody ever actually says so, it is just assumed and increasingly accepted. I think this assumption should be challenged.

I don’t approve of racism, but it varies from mild (I’d prefer my daughter not date black men) to the evil dude in SC.

Is the first variant really that awful? Lots of Jews don’t want their daughters to marry gentiles. Is that really so awful? Lots of black people believe, and openly state, that blacks shouldn’t date or marry white people. Why is that acceptable but the reverse is not?

Is a not-acted-upon dislike for a certain group of people really the most despicable crime? Worse than murder, rape of child molestation? Really?


15 posted on 06/26/2015 7:02:05 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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To: jughandle

Unfortunately, as long as lunatic libtards have breath in their lungs, nothing will ever be safe.


16 posted on 06/26/2015 7:02:16 AM PDT by mothball
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Next.....the Dylan Roof killings are cause for reparations to all blacks in the amount of $1M. Tell me I’m wrong.


17 posted on 06/26/2015 7:02:21 AM PDT by jsanders2001
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To: a fool in paradise

That would involve getting rid of Old Glory, not the Mexican flag.


18 posted on 06/26/2015 7:02:44 AM PDT by Sherman Logan
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"A hate crime of this nature must lead to effective legislation that will curtail similar incidences in the future,"

This is too stupid to even laugh about.

19 posted on 06/26/2015 7:03:13 AM PDT by grobdriver (Where is Wilson Blair when you need him?)
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And maybe the engagements will be Blue vs Gay?


20 posted on 06/26/2015 7:03:14 AM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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