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do they want to erase all of america's past history?

Sherman is part of South Carolina and America's history too, but his place isn't on the state grounds of SC either.

I for one become offended when the BLACK NATIONAL ATHEMN is sung; it will never stop and is another ploy for victimhood status

The choice is not between the Black National anthem and the reb flag. Both are divisive and have no place on public property, but I'm not aware of any move to have South Carolina play that song on public property. I would be against that also.

Sherman is part of South Carolina and America's history too, but his place isn't on the state grounds of SC either.

Maybe not his, but Jesse Jackson is. And in some corners of the state, his legacy is nearly as bad as Sherman's - at least Sherman ended a war....

Sherman is part of South Carolina and America's history too, but his place isn't on the state grounds of SC either.

In a way, it is. There are plaques on the State House showing the marks where Sherman's artillery struck the walls.

Heck, in a way, the entire city of Columbia is a monument to Sherman. You'll find VERY few cities continuously inhabited since 1778 that have virtually no buildings standing from before 1865. And most of the historical markers in Columbia contain the words "burned by Union troops on February 17, 1865" somewhere in the text.

This whole flap is much ado about nothing. It's a soldiers' battle flag, flying at a monument commemorating the deaths of thousands of Confederate soldiers in the war. The only difference between that monument and hundreds of others across the South is that South Carolina flew a flag from the pole on their Statehouse dome for 37 years before taking it down and running a similar one up at the monument. That's it.

By the way, this "compromise" to pull the flag off the dome and put one up at the Confederate Soldiers' Memorial was the original compromise that the NAACP proposed. As soon as Governor David Weaseley--er, Beasley--flip-flopped and agreed to the "compromise," the NAACP immediately screamed that it wasn't good enough, that no Confederate flags could fly on the Statehouse grounds, and voted their ineffective and laughable "tourism boycott." (The flip-flop cost Weaseley his job the next election and handed the job to a Rat for four years.) Well, there were 400,000+ black bikers in Myrtle Beach on Memorial Day weekend, just like every year...some boycott! }:-)4

The choice is not between the Black National anthem and the reb flag. Both are divisive and have no place on public property, but I'm not aware of any move to have South Carolina play that song on public property. I would be against that also.

With all due respect, Colonel, is it really a bad thing to fly the flag under which brave Americans, though Confederates, died fighting for their freedoms over their dedicated monument? The State of South Carolina is merely honoring the sacrifices made by their ancestors, using the Flag under which these same ancestors fought—something which can commonly be found in any Military cemetary! If honoring Confederate soldiers with their Flag is offensive, then who's to say that honoring American soldiers in a similar manner cannot be deemed equally offensive? (After all, there are some people of small wit who insist that all war is murder too, are there not??)

The only people dividing the country are those who continue to spew racist victimhood across our land. Merely my opinion, of course, offered

Most humbly,
~dt~

The "Civil" War (if you can call it that) was a fight over states rights to legislate it's own business. Slavery was a byproduct of the Federal Government mandating that states must conform to a mandate from Washington.

The Constitution limits the central governments role very specifically, and thats what the conflict was about. The South lost and now what we have is a central government that is involved in our every day life (education, environment, land management, sexual preferences, etc., etc., etc.)

I wish that the South would have won!