[Theodore R.]

It seems like the Perdue administration and the legislature have "compromised," but the NAACP is still upset with "Confederate roots" on the proposed new flag.

In Mississippi in 2001, voters cast a 2/3 vote to keep the Confederate logo on that state's flag. Had GA held the election that candidate Perdue proposed in 2002, would the outcome have been similar? I guess we shall never know.

[TommyDale]

Seems to me that the NAACP should be complaining to the Democratic Party for holding their Presidential Debate next week in South Carolina, too!

[Kuksool]

The NAACP boycott of GA is just a method to boost black voter turnout in 2004. The NAACP tried the same gimmick in SC last year. THe RATS lost the races for Governor and Senator.

[Budge]

It seems like the Perdue administration and the legislature have "compromised," but the NAACP is still upset with "Confederate roots" on the proposed new flag.

So why did they bother?

It seems like an exercise in futility to appease those who refuse to be appeased.

[wku man]

The new Georgia flag is about as harmless looking as you can get, and the racist NAACP is still being uppity about it. Fine, let 'em boycott. When folks see the new flag, and how benign it is, then see the race-baiters making a big deal of it, maybe it'll finally start to sink in that this issue has never been about slavery, oppression, Jim Crow, or hurt feelings, but merely a way for the NAACP to keep itself in the news, and therefore in power. Let's hope, anyway.

Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!

[schaketo]

Perdue originally called for a referendum on a version of Georgia's flag that featured the Dixie cross but backed off after black lawmakers succeeded in defeating the idea.

It appears to me that Perdue LIED to get elected. That’s a novel approach by a politician. I hope they (those that voted him in) learned a valuable lesson in GA. He’s a scoundrel and should be ignored until they can vote him out.

[Xthe17th]

That 'X' ...bringing that 'X' back was totally unacceptable to us."
I am deeply saddened.

[FreedomCalls]

It seems like the Perdue administration and the legislature have "compromised," but the NAACP is still upset with "Confederate roots" on the proposed new flag.

Aren't they changing their story here? The original reason they had a problem with the old Georgia flag as that it had the Confederate Battle Flag on it -- which they claimed had been taken over as a symbol of hate by the KKK, neo-Nazis, and others who use it as a racist symbol. Now they have changed their story to claim that if something has "Confederate roots" it is no longer acceptable.

With every move the NAACP edges ever closer to irrelevancy.