When I moved to SC back in the 1980’s, I noticed the flag on top of the capitol dome. I also noticed that the capitol building had several steel stars embedded in the west wall and found out that the stars mark the locations where Union cannon balls hit the building during the siege of Columbia. I asked an old guy at the barber shop if it had been flying there ever since the war ended and he said, “No, the governor put it up there when Washington told us we had to desegregate the schools.”
So we find ourselves in a position of defending a symbol that is heritage to some and a genuine symbol of exclusion to others. And both groups are being manipulated by the Elites in DC, led by creatures like Pelosi, to hate each other over a stupid flag.
That’s the problem, Yankees moving to SC.
Excellent post. Most don’t get it. They think the flag has flown over the Statehouse in South Carolina since 1865. It hasn’t. It was put up for one reason only. Democrats didn’t want black kids going to school with white kids. Period. And here we have all sorts of folks defending that. Makes the head spin.
A flag that been there since 1960’s..is being connect very tenuously to a shooting in 2015?....
Its a non sequitur.... a witch hunt... demagogue in by the left for political purposes
And by the way if you notice you’re very little actually new going on about the shooter
it’s all become about the flag ...a total non sequitur.. a boogie man.. a witch hunt
next time it’ll be some other incident to be used to witch hunt some other leftist boogeyman say the Tea Party ...
in fact it very easily could have been come pull down the Gadsden flag instead of the Confederate flag
When a lynch mob on a witch hunt grabs a man for a crime he ever really had no connection to ......
And you stand around and say oh well let them hang him because I really didn’t like that guy anyway .....
Worry... because lynch mob might come for you next
That "stupid flag" is as much to blame for the shooting as the gun; as much to blame for slavery as a box of Jell-o.
Don't let yourself be manipulated.