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If that was the reason, then why did SC not fly the confederate battle flag over the state capitol until the civil rights movement.

Truth. No one cared about the battleflag until the black civil rights movement. Then it was raised to keep the uppity N_______ in their place.

The battleflag is dishonored by the uses to which it is put, by the people who never fought in the Civil War.

Strom Thurmond, the old Dixicrat candidate, was finally revealed as one who raped underage black servants. Alas, he was never so revealed while he lived. He deeply deserved to be degraded from the senate for that convention, as did another Rapist of note.

If my memory is correct - and I admit it may be faulty - the Battle Flag was put atop the State House during the centennial commemoration of the outbreak of the Civil War. That is, the flag was put up around 1961, and the civil rights movement was well underway by 1961.
If the flag was put up to protest the civil rights movement, a more appropriate time should have been after the Supreme Court handed down the Brown decision.
Putting the battle flag up kept no one "in their place". The civil rights movement's success or failure was not determined by symbolic acts but by legislative and judicial action.
No one dishonors an object by the uses to which he or she puts it. Persons may dishonor themselves, but not the object. If your contention is correct, then the Christian cross should be dishonored because many terrible acts have been committed under its color and in its name.
Strom Thurmond's actions have no bearing on this issue.
His record as a public servant will stand or fall on its own merits.
In any event, he was a member of the US Senate in 1961 and had no power over the decision by the legislature to put the Battle Flag atop the State House.

yet another arrogantly IGNORANT,1/2-witted & FALSE post!

IF you checked the FACTS, rather than just "running off at the mouth" OR posting FALSE,EVASIVE & DECEPTIVE comments, you'd look SMARTER.

in point of fact, President John F. Kennedy ASKED the state government of SC, in March of 1961, to fly the CSA flag over the statehouse in memory of the CSA soldiers,sailors & marines, who died fighting for dixie LIBERTY.

the original letter, on WH stationary & signed by JFK, is on display in the "Relics Room", across from the statehouse.

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