Confederate Flags Removed From Fort Sumter: Site Where Civil War Began

Breitbart ^ | 7/3/2015

[Altura Ct.]

Confederate flags have been removed from South Carolina’s Fort Sumter per a National Park Service directive barring Confederate flags in “units of the National Park system and related sites” with few exceptions.

The Civil War began on April 12, 1861, when South Carolinians fired on federals stationed in Fort Sumter.

According to the Washington Examiner, National Park Service director Jonathan Jarvis sent the following directive relating to the Confederate flag:

Confederate flags shall not be flown in units of the National Park system and related sites with the exception of specific circumstances where the flags provide historic context. … All superintendents and program managers should evaluate how Confederate flags are used … and remove the flags where appropriate.

Of all the texts contained in the directive, only the words “shall not be flown” are in bold.

Because of the historicity of the site–the fact it was where the first shots of the Civil War were fired–many have argued that the necessary “historic context” for the Confederate flag is clear. But WMBF reports that the National Park Service has yet to concur. Rather, “a spokesperson at Fort Sumter said the site doesn’t meet the exception for the flag to be flown right now.”

On June 26 Breitbart News reported that the Gettysburg National Military Park bookstore pulled all items “featuring the Confederate flag” from its shelves. The bookstore’s actions were prompted by a National Park Service request, wherein “concessionaries” were asked to quit selling the Confederate flag following the attack on Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in South Carolina

[Dartman]

He is a communists black Muslim

You forgot bi-sexual.

[StoneWall Brigade]

This is unreal

[wardaddy]

Incredible

Free Republic south bashers prolly passed out cold from their weeks long circle jerk

[Gritty]

I want a divorce from the people who insist on this nonsense. We are irreconcilable.

They can have Hollyweird, New Yawk, Bhahstan, Shitcago, Lost Angeles, San Fagcisco, Detoilet, every city in New Joisey, Dumphis, Naw'lins, Filthydelphia, Baltimordor, the District of Corruption, and almost every college and University in the country and they can stew in their own racist, fascist swill. If they are lucky, the Chinese or ISIS will take over and rescue them.

We'll take the rest of the country and prosper and live happily ever after.

[rustbucket]

Flags previously at Fort Sumter before the Park Service tries to erase history by taking some down.