South Carolina Removes Flag, Cures Racism

In an historic move that will forever be remembered as the day racism finally came to an end, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley has signed into law a measure removing the Confederate battle flag from the Statehouse grounds. The culmination of weeks of debate, the flag’s removal has had a series of ripple effects.

The Southern Poverty Law Center declared racism “dead,” the NAACP officially merged with the Ku Klux Klan, and Southerners everywhere denounced their heritage of black oppression. Or not. Instead of focusing on the heinous crimes of one disturbed murderer, South Carolina and the rest of the country decided to use the Charleston church shooting as an excuse to attack a visible symbol of the Confederacy. The flag has long been a source of controversy, but the line between the stars and bars and Dylann Roof is tenuous at best. Yes, he had a Confederate flag license plate. So what? Did we demand that orange hair dye be removed from stores after James Holmes shot up that theater?

If Adam Lanza had been photographed in front of an LGBT flag, would we have revolted against that symbol in the wake of Sandy Hook?

At best, the flap over the flag has been a trivial distraction. At worst, it is a blatant attempt to erase Southern heritage in the wake of a terrible tragedy that had nothing to do with the Confederate flag. And worst of all, Republicans like Haley, Jeb Bush, and others have not bothered to put up the slightest resistance to this obvious attack. Polls show that Americans are split right down the middle when it comes to the flag, but you wouldn’t know it from watching our elected representatives.

In Washington and Charleston, politicians have avoided supporting the flag as though it is akin to supporting slavery. Only a few politicians have had the guts to speak out for Southern heritage. Those that do risk everything to tell the truth. That Southerners don’t support slavery. That the Confederate flag stands for much more than the actual Confederate army. It has come to stand for the Southern way of life. Heritage. Pride. Ancestry. Freedom.

Has it been used as a symbol of racism as well? Absolutely. But the vast majority of its supporters look at that flag and see an inextricable part of their history. If removing the Confederate flag would prevent mass shootings, no one would oppose it. If it would cure racism, everyone would be on board with its removal. But taking it down will do nothing. Nothing at all. It is a gesture of pure nonsense, meant to satisfy easily-impressed liberals before they get bored and move on to something else.

Unfortunately, long after everyone has left this disturbing tragedy behind, Southerners will have to live with the unfair allegations liberals have smeared them with. Taking the flag down may appear as a moment of unity, but it is actually a stunning move towards a new era of division.

WHY THE REGIME PICKED ON THE CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG AND NOT ROOF’S MANIFESTO

Because it was under threat of questioning and possible impeachment proceedings by its so called political opposition the regime needed to defer or stop any movement toward this. It was necessary to use a political device usually atrributed to Saul Alinsky but used by the nazi and commie’s like Stalin with the “Kulacks” through racial division.Through the use of the “Bully Pulpit”. POTUS created persons engaged in felonious assults on authority who were black youths into; “Victims of an evil society” (thus approving their actions) out of whole cloth.

The regime began with the Zimmerman case which resulted in a series of assults by black youths on completely innocent whites,”hispanics”, and asians who were either targeted or wandered near or through black gang infested areas. The perpetators excuse; The reported “cold blood killing of Treyvon Martin because he was black”

It led to a score or more deaths and serious injuries which were treated as local news ignored and forgotten. Including a young Austrailian champion runner vacationing here staying with relatives on holiday in the US that was murdered while jogging near a black area. There were about a score (20) or more of such incidents.And each was met with silence while this was happening. Neither the locqatious POTUS or his political opposition uttered as much as a “Now!,Now! or a “tsk!,tsk!” ..

Those killings were referenced by the Charleston Church massacre perpetrator in his crazed manifesto.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/3302529/posts

Naturally when it was discovered that mention of those score of murders were used in this nut cases’s “manifesto” the reaction was....“Well we can’t let that out.

Oh ! His face book has him holding a Confederate battle flag.,That flag by the way was never displayed by the KKK in their marches. It was allways the Stars and Stripes and when South Carolina governor Earnest Hollings ordered it displayed to protest desegregation in the 60’s it was misused as an insult to blacks. Where it remained flying on the state capitol flag pole until this year.

Not mentioning the Roof manifesto begs the question if Obama had not proceeded with this perverse “progressive” agenda which ended up up with scores of killings. Would this “wacko” have had that excuse .?

Perverting what the Confederate battle flag’s represents at the same time diverts any attention to the regimes complicity in engendering those previous racial incidents unanswerable for those deaths..

While some talk show hosts acknowledge there’s racial rhetoric of division being used by the regime. They have yet to acknowledge and identify the political objective of its use of (racial) division. Which is permitting unimpeded continuation of the destruction of the constitution.

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