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Why Nikki Haley is smart to want to remove South Carolina’s Confederate flag
WaPo ^ | 6/22/15 | Philip Bump

Posted on 06/22/2015 11:48:57 AM PDT by ghost of stonewall jackson

Edited on 06/22/2015 12:13:58 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]

During a press conference on Monday, Gov. Nikki Haley will ask that the Confederate flag on the grounds of South Carolina's capitol be removed, according to the Post and Courier. The move from the popular governor (reelected last year by 15 points and with 79 percent approval last April) will almost certainly help encourage the state legislature to vote for removal. As it stands, the legislature needs a two-thirds vote to make that happen -- a high bar.


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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Government; News/Current Events; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 1stamendment; confederacy; dixie; nikkihaley; southcarolina
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To: StoneWall Brigade

I know that the truth seems like a trick to you and try as I might I can’t fix that. People who can’t plainly see that Lincoln’s racial attitudes were mainstream for his era are simply too stupid for life.

Have a sparkly kinda day.


241 posted on 06/23/2015 4:05:31 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: CodeToad

You have such a lovely way with words ... denigrate a Governor with Sikh parents and now denigrate people who have learning challenges. A ‘retard’? Bless your heart ... you’re a really strong proponent of your point of view.


242 posted on 06/23/2015 6:11:08 PM PDT by conservaKate
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To: rockrr; onyx; stainlessbanner; Pelham; CatherineofAragon; mrsmel; StoneWall Brigade

When they finish with us at your urging jackass, they will eventually turn on Lincoln and his racist opines

Product of his era means jack

Rush was all over this today

Southern heritage is but low hanging fruit to rally the troops

They want it all and by the time people far smarter than you wake up it will be fundamentally transformed to a brownish socialist utopia where anything remotely tainted with white privilege is expunged

And you have been a useful tool

Do not not doubt me as Rush says

The real flag they eventually will bring down in Old Glory..,his words

Words I’ve use to warn here with for years

Shouted down by race baiting fools like you who btw never disclose any personal information about who they are and what their real agenda is here


243 posted on 06/23/2015 7:05:41 PM PDT by wardaddy (#jon snow mattered)
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To: wardaddy

I can’t add anything to that. It’s perfect. But they’re not going to listen. It makes them feel too good about themselves to align themselves with the PC factions.


244 posted on 06/23/2015 7:13:35 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( ((("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))))
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To: rockrr

And by the way, they will come for all public display of Christianity. Your friends at the SPLC already consider several Christian icons hate symbols and several Christian organizations as hate groups.


245 posted on 06/23/2015 7:13:46 PM PDT by wardaddy (#jon snow mattered)
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To: conservaKate

“denigrate a Governor”

Sad to see you supporting a governor denigrating the very Southern heritage she is supposed to represent. Too bad you place political party over country like she does. Grow up.


246 posted on 06/23/2015 7:17:31 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: conservaKate
Oh, please , enough with the delicate, oh-so-easily offended sensibilities. My husband's aunt is mentally retarded. She's a darling, and the family adores her, but no one clutches their pearls over that word.

Look it up. It means to delay or hold back in terms of development or progress, and it is an accurate description of people with that particular disability.

I am sick to death of all this jumping to be offended.

247 posted on 06/23/2015 7:18:20 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( ((("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))))
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To: rockrr

“Lincoln wasn’t 1/100th the “racist” of the scoundrels who comprised the southron slavocrisy.”

Get real, NS. You’re such a retarded idiot that thinks anything Southern is to be hated, just like all the other retarded liberals.

Lincoln hated negros. He wanted no free negro to live in Illinois and demanded none should marry a white girl, yet, your bigotry and hatred of the South could care less.

Bigots like you are nothing but liberals, right “non-sequitur”. Retread.


248 posted on 06/23/2015 7:19:52 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: wardaddy

If you would pull your head out of your rectum for a nanosecond you would see that I am on the side of the CBF supporters. You dolt.

Oh, and I can’t hold a candle to your race-baiting dipwad.


249 posted on 06/23/2015 7:21:56 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: wardaddy
Sorry, I don't do splc. That's a southern thing
250 posted on 06/23/2015 7:23:23 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: CodeToad

If I want your opinion I’ll beat it out of you.


251 posted on 06/23/2015 7:24:52 PM PDT by rockrr (Everything is different now...)
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To: CatherineofAragon; conservaKate

“Look it up. It means to delay or hold back in terms of development or progress, and it is an accurate description of people with that particular disability.”

In fact, it is an insult to call people with mental handicaps “retarded”. They actually may not be retarded at all, but rather advanced for their capabilities.

conservaKate is just mouthing off on her liberal ideologies and feigning emotion to do it. She supports the denigration of the South while claiming moral superiority; that’s bigotry, a defining characteristic of a liberal.


252 posted on 06/23/2015 7:25:25 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: rockrr

“If I want your opinion I’ll beat it out of you.”

Spoken like NS always mouthed off, kid. The only thing you beat is yourself.


253 posted on 06/23/2015 7:26:06 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: wardaddy

“And by the way, they will come for all public display of Christianity. “

That’s “non-sequitur”, a retread who has stated he hates Christians, so he would welcome SPLC doing that.


254 posted on 06/23/2015 7:28:34 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: entropy12

“There is no practical method to break up the United States without causing unmitigated financial and military disast”

Very true, and Obama and his handlers want just that. They have money and protection. What happens to you and me they only hope will be the worst.


255 posted on 06/23/2015 7:29:38 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: Mollypitcher1

Excellent viewpoint, Molly!


256 posted on 06/23/2015 7:31:39 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad; conservaKate
"conservaKate is just mouthing off on her liberal ideologies and feigning emotion to do it. She supports the denigration of the South while claiming moral superiority; that’s bigotry, a defining characteristic of a liberal."

Wow, you aren't kidding. I had to look back at her posts...she's very kum-ba-yah on race, I see.

Somebody should explain the definition of "melting pot" to her.

257 posted on 06/23/2015 7:42:41 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( ((("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))))
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To: CatherineofAragon

Her “melting pot” is nothing but a pressure cooker since she supports and enables racism by those that hate whites.


258 posted on 06/23/2015 7:45:15 PM PDT by CodeToad (Islam should be outlawed and treated as a criminal enterprise!)
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To: CodeToad; conservaKate

That’s right. Melting pot refers to people who have assimilated into the dominant culture.

Her factions want to destroy the dominant (for now, still) culture.


259 posted on 06/23/2015 7:49:08 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ( ((("This is a Laztatorship. You don't like it, get a day's rations and get out of this office."))))
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To: rockrr

Hardly
Potok and Cohen are yankee Jews

Your pals with the same aims


260 posted on 06/23/2015 7:49:27 PM PDT by wardaddy (#jon snow mattered)
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