NAACP Protests over Confederate flag continue

Augusta Chronicle ^ | 3/2/02 | Page Ivey

[shuckmaster]

Aw, Shucks!

[shuckmaster]

Stay tuned. There should be live reports later & there will certainly be follow up articles thruout the week. God bless Dixie!

[snippy_about_it]

[Nix 2]

You know they ain't gonna stop this foolishness until someone gets killed. Then they will scream racism at the extreme top of their lungs...but no one will be listening. The Confederate Flag makers in SC are mostly black entrepeneurs who know a good deal when they see it. The more the Nasty, Angry, Anti-white, Cultist Provocateurs raise h3ll about the Confederate Battleflag, the more people around the US want them. Affirmative Action in retro-mode.
So help these entrepeneurs and buy American. Now, and often.

[leadpenny]

If it's legal for them to protest at the Welcome Centers then I sure respect their right to do so. I just wish we would have had a little more time to put together a counter-protest. Hopefully, these misguided race baitors will get their fair share of one-fingered salutes.

[toddst]

"If it's legal for them to protest at the Welcome Centers then I sure respect their right to do so. I just wish we would have had a little more time to put together a counter-protest. Hopefully, these misguided race baitors will get their fair share of one-fingered salutes."

We go to Myrtle Beach nearly every year. However, we're making a point of going this summer for a full TWO WEEKS. This is the way to counter what these fools are doing. Encourage your friends to do the same.

[TEXICAN II]

Yes, I too thank God for my REAL home-DIXIE. You know, Marshall, Tx was perhaps the last Capitol of the Confederacy, & the goofy liberal Bill Moyers recalled an ancient, frail Black Lady rose to sing 'Dixie', in full throat, with all in the room at a history club/chamber of commerce/ or some such, when he was a kid in Marshall? My Daddy's, Mother's Father rode with Forrest.

But, to quote a wonderully articulate Jew I knew some years ago ( whose parents sent he & a sister out just before all the rest perished in Dachau ), when asked about some wanna-be Neo-Nazis marching in Jewish Skokie, Il, "They should be ignored"! ( actually, his wonderful German accent & diction spilled out from his emotion-not "they" , but "Dey")

Better to spend some time listening to Walter Williams & Thomas Sowell ( Williams, God's self-proclaimed gift to weomen ) was guest host on Limbaugh this past Thurs & Friday & it was a marvelous lesson in clear thinking ). Better to read a book. Better to re-arrange your sock drawer, than give any note to these yahoos. There are MILLIONS of successful Black folks in this country who are repulsed by these fools in the NAALCP.

[TEXICAN II]

You know SC could not buy such attention-your reaction has & will be common.

[Darnright]

"Better to spend some time listening to Walter Williams & Thomas Sowell ( Williams, God's self-proclaimed gift to weomen ) was guest host on Limbaugh this past Thurs & Friday & it was a marvelous lesson in clear thinking ). Better to read a book. Better to re-arrange your sock drawer, than give any note to these yahoos. There are MILLIONS of successful Black folks in this country who are repulsed by these fools in the NAALCP."

Well said, Texican. However, I think I'll put my book by Dr Sowell in the camper, as I head to Myrtle Beach for a few days during Easter vacation. I'm seriously thinking of hunting for black owned businesses at which to spend as many dollars as I can afford.

Bless them.

[leadpenny]

Encourage your friends to do the same.

Good idea. A couple of weeks ago some of us from out of state were talking about coming to SC, counter-protesting and spending a little money. I'm convinced these folks are doing this on short notice so as not to get FReeped.

[jos65]

Questions:

Is this effort by the NAACP, considered public service?

Are all the "picketeers" using vacation time to do this?

Just curious.

Thanks for the post.

[AppyPappy]

The NAACP plans to begin "border patrols" today to discourage visitors from spending money in South Carolina

How do we get some of this action in Va?

[doosee]

The national NAACP boycott began in January 2000 when the Confederate flag still flew atop the Statehouse dome.

I live and work in SC and I can tell you that these activists have little or no interest in real issues facing blacks. My kids have participated in academic quiz contests with other schools, some having 98% black students. I watched (while feeling multiple emotions of amazement, pity, and embarrassment) as junior high age kids at these schools could not answer questions like, How many ounces in a pound? Which state is nearest to Cuba? What president came after Washington? ---- you get the picture. These kids are chosen as the smartest in their schools.
This is what the NAACP should be working on, not the flag nonsense.

[leadpenny]

What president came after Washington? ----

The answer is.............

........Could you repeat the question? Who was Washington? That used to be the name of our school before we re-named it Malcom X Junior High.

[TEXICAN II]

Now THAT is a REAL suggestion-Black owned-I'll bet you could make some real news & some real $ for the fine Black business folks in SC if they can be 'searched' via the net, the SC state Chamber of Commerce-bet they have a 'Black' Chamber! DO IT & spread the good news! That is fabulous.

[hoosierham]

People in America wearing and waving the black,green and red flag tic me off!

[TEXICAN II]

www.mbmarketplace.com/chambers.asp is partial list for SC chambers-many there, no Myrtle B. but Columbia is the state main office! You know this could be a thing. Imagine folks from all over, flooding their emails with ORDERS for merchandise! You know UPS runs all over & there are some Black owned retail & wholesale business owners with things we just might want.

Let's see now, books, CD's, Sporting Goods, clothing, auto parts & supplies, housewares & cooking supplies, linens, tools, craft items,who knows what neat stuff awaits the shopper...

Some of the Dixie cutlure sights might use this idea, permenantly.

[stainlessbanner]

You would think these losers would pick a Welcome Station like Florida - at least you get free OJ there!

If you visit the SC Welcome station, watch your wallet - the NAACP can smell money. Also, stay armed - bring your water balloon launcher.

[glc1173@aol.com]

I wonder how much individual "little people" blacks will pay for the NAACP's hellraising this time.

Will seeing the NAACP protests urging boycotts of South Carolina on CNN be the "last straw" that provokes even a small percentage of the much-larger European-American population into boycotting all black-owned businesses, for instance - something few black-owned businesses can afford during a recession?

The flag of freedom.

[Darnright]

Hey, thanks for the detective work, Texican! It just galls me how the NAACP doesn't realize how negatively this could effect (or maybe it does, and doesn't care) black owned businesses. I'm a small business owner myself, and I know the hard work that goes into such an enterprise.