[Colonel Kangaroo]

The NCAA is a private organization. I can't blame them. Such a divisive symbol as the reb flag has its place only on private property. It has a similar effect to one large group of citizens as a statue of General Sherman holding a torch located on state grounds would have to another large group of SC citizens.

[Hazcat]

OK. who has the popcorn concession for this one?

[RebelBanker]

They are still at it...

[saganite]

Maybe they could just replace it with the rainbow flag. That would make Jesse, the gays and the enviros happy. They are the only ones who count anyway. /sarc/

[elephant]

Good 'ol Gephardt used the Confederate flag to rebel rouse in the state of MO during his bid for the Presidency. Until that time, no one had uttered one word until they were "told" they should hate this flag!

[Just mythoughts]

Interesting how 'free-speech' sure has it control freaks.

[Moose4]

South Carolina ran the Confederate Naval Jack (what everybody calls the "Confederate flag," the rectangular St. Andrews Cross on the red field) up on the Statehouse in 1962. (By the way, y'know who signed the bill? DEMOCRAT Governor Ernest "Fritz" Hollings.)

In 1999, that flag was removed from the top of the South Carolina Statehouse. In its place, a battle standard--not the national flag of the Confederacy, a BATTLE FLAG a mere three and a half feet square--flies on a pole BEHIND A CONFEDERATE SOLDIER'S MONUMENT on the Statehouse grounds. If you didn't know where to look for it, you'd probably miss it. I know this because I worked five blocks from it in downtown Columbia for almost six years.

This is a bunch of crap from the NAACP and the liberal university administrators. I'm glad South Carolina isn't knuckling under to these race pimps.

}:-)4

[SC Swamp Fox]

What do you think of the civil rights memorial that also sits on the grounds of the statehouse, near the confederate soldiers memorial over which the battle flag flies? The civil rights memorial contains the likenesses of civil rights leaders, including Greenville native, Jesse Jackson.

[SC Swamp Fox]

South Carolina Ping

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[Livin_large]

Oh please! Let's cut the "Can't we all just get along" crap. There are people here who would not be satisfied as a taster in a pie factory. The fact that South Carolina was part of the Confederacy is something that cannot be denied and should not be forgotten. South Carolina has a proud heritage as being a state that does not bow to outside pressure or buckle to public opinion. This is what the Confederate battle flag stands for and as such should remain on State House grounds as a memorial to that spirit.

[meandog]

[YCTHouston]

Clemson got to host the regionals because Clemson has a great baseball program. How hard is that to figure out?

When will Leftist (like YOU) ever tire of politicizing every last bleeding corner of American culture for the sake of imposing your pink-laced sanctimony on everyone else? Nobody is forcing baseballplayers or you to march around the SC capitol grounds until you find the confederate monument and salute. If you don't like it, don't go there. Problem sovled.

And as for the NCAA being a private organization, it's funded, in part, with dues from taxpayer supported state schools, including those of South Carolina. I suppose if they wanted to, the bureaucrats who run it could exclude Clemson from the tournament, but it would be a far less interesting tournament without one of the consistantly best programs in the country.

[Richard-SIA]

The only appropriate reply I can come up with for this contrived PC crap is to put my own "rebel" flag on display.

I bought it a while ago, after the PC Nazi's managed to get Confederate flags removed from many Confederate grave site's.

I despise those who seek to rewrite history, and the entire Confederate Flag "issue" is based on twisting history.

[Non-Sequitur]

I take second place to nobody in my opposition to the Southern rebellion, but Jesus, people, lighten up already! It's their damned state, let them fly whatever flag they want to.

[Between the Lines]

Such a divisive symbol as the reb flag has its place only on private property.

It is laughable that some find the flag divisive and offensive yet have no objection to the Confederate Memorial over which it flies.

[Clemenza]

Personally, I believe that the anti-flag folks should choose another tactic: make their OWN confederate flag out of the colors of the gay pride flag:

I think that the NCAA made the right decision. While the confederate flag may mean "heritage" and "freedom" to many white folks south of the Mason-Dixon line, it means treason to American nationalists and slavery/segregation for many black Americans.

[detsaoT]

The NCAA is welcome to withdraw from the State of South Carolina. They'd also probably be better off paying attention to "College Athletics" and leaving politics to the CITIZENS of South Carolina, but then again, whadda I know...

[aomagrat]

Such a divisive symbol as the reb flag has its place only on private property. It has a similar effect to one large group of citizens as a statue of General Sherman holding a torch located on state grounds would have to another large group of SC citizens.

What's wrong with flying a Confederate flag at a Confederate war memorial?

As to the General Sherman statue, there might as well be one. The statehouse still bears scars from Sherman's artillery and from the fire that followed his occupation.

[stand watie]

well, all that may be true in YOUR eyes, BUT let me tell you that almost NOBODY in SC cares a damn what the coaches assn, the ncaa, the mainSLIME media, AND the entirety of the DAMNyankee/PC idiots think (DO they think???).

most of us southerners would just as soon that they ALL stayed home & "tended to their own business".

free dixie,sw

[OldEagle]

Where is the White Coaches Association on this?

[PistolPaknMama]

Vowels said. “Once we can understand processes, then we can go from there.”

"Understand". What a subjective word these days.