Posted on 09/06/2015 7:19:17 AM PDT by rktman
Earlier this month, the SPLC launched a new initiative called "Erasing Hate," which "aims to identify and eliminate government-sanctioned symbols honoring the Confederacy."
"There are numerous government-sponsored symbols of the Confederacy that are out in the public across the country, and, quite frankly, it's time for them be removed," said SPLC founder Morris Dees. "In Montgomery, Alabama, we have a Robert E. Lee High School that wasn't even named until [Brown v. the Board of Education], the desegregation case. We have government-sponsored holidays honoring Confederate 'heroes'."
Flags, street names, building names, and statues honoring the Confederacy became public targets across the country earlier this year after a white supremacist shot and killed nine African Americans in a church in Charleston, South Carolina.
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“It’s gotten to the point whether I don’t care if someone thinks I’m racist or not.”
It’s becoming a badge of honor.
Of course, the SPLC will include all the symbols of the political party that supported the Confederacy...like the jackass, right?
Time to label the SPLC a hate group.
I looked at your profile, I am not on your list.
Been lurkin since 99, signed on in 2011 when I finally got my own computer (wife bought it for me) and learned how (kinda) to use it.
Been making my own list since then, odd (maybe not) how many of the same names appear on my list as yours.
I guess the Baiter/Prog/Lib/Demo/ Commies just got be who they got to be.
How can a black truck be racist?
Among their goals should be to completely erase the official party of slavery, secession, Jim Crow, the KKK, and segregation: Democrat.
Always the most amazing and revealing tales, Lady, thank him for us.
I’d like to clarify that not all on my list collude nor are all without redemption
But many do and a lot are
God bless you
Same here in central Virginia, just west of Appomattox.
You'll see black guys driving around with the flag flying.
Morris Dees and his bunch of professional grudge nursers can go straight to hell.
Wow..what a story.
Dees is a duplicitous piece of garbage.
What does this have to do with eradicating poverty?
Forgot you were on the thread...should have pinged you. Grrr.
Looking for more handout money.
hate is fermented in black Churches
Half of the state of West Virginia.
I have no use for The Southern Poverty Organization, or Dees. I really don’t understand all the angst about Confederate symbols etc.
The world has lots of problems that need to be addressed, and taking down a confederate flag, or removing a statue does nothing to solve problems, or achieve anything of significance.
The civil war was part of our history. They had a flag, and soldiers, and officers etc. So all the whiners, just need to get over it. These people are just all a bunch of nutty, little snot bag whiners - they need to keep their noses out of other people’s business.
I never ever thought of the confederate flag as a symbol of racism, and was totally gob smacked to hear all the complaints about it.
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