Citadel votes to remove Confederate Naval Jack from campus chapel

News5 ^ | 6-23-2015 | Patrick Phillps, Meaghan Wallace

[tcrlaf]

The Board of Visitors at the Citadel voted Tuesday night to remove the Confederate Naval Jack from its chapel on campus.

The vote was 9-3 in favor of removing the flag from Summerall Chapel.

A Citadel spokesperson says the school needs the General Assembly's permission to remove the flag.

According to Citadel officials, the flag was presented to the military college in 1939. The removal of the flag will be done in accordance with the Heritage Act, the spokesperson said.

[Rebelbase]

Alumni dollars will disappear too.

[StoneWall Brigade]

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[Monorprise]

I doubt very much congress has the ability to do anything. What we are seeing now is very much the result of private and faithless state & local leaders wiped up into a mob frenzy by the press and the emotionally charged acts of one lone loontic.

Remember the leaders who now collapse for theses are the men and women we can never trust with power again. Renumber now how they speak to the press to give legitimacy to the neo-nazy demands of the mob. This is why even a democrat is better than back stabling RINO. If we are to go down let us at least go down nobly fighting for liberty against the lawlessness of the mob, and for Constitutional limited government.

[upchuck]

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[VerySadAmerican]

Every time I hear “new world order” I think of Bush. And as far as I’m concerned, when you’ve seen one Bush, you’ve seen them all. W was a pretty good con man.

[VerySadAmerican]

Vicksburg is a small black city. The only things there that are clean are the government owned parks.

[StoneWall Brigade]

You’re right

[KGeorge]

I’m surprised no one has mentioned the “protest” at Valdosta University where the guy (Eric Sheppard) was walking on Old Glory & a lady veteran was arrested for taking it away from them.

I agree with you. It will either be the flag or the Cross, next, but eventually both.And our “representatives” will be right in there with them.

[kalee]

My brother class of 1984.

[1rudeboy]

What’s RT tweeting about this?

[central_va]

I’ve battle a lot of Freepers on the WBTS threads that are celebrating this lunacy concerning the Battle Flag.

[DoodleDawg]

I saw something on the news last night. A big sign that said, “Bring us together. Take it down.” referring to the flag. I can think of no campaign more designed to divide people than this jihad against the Confederate flag.

[captain_dave]

In fairness to the Citadel, the flag was presented in 1939. Well after that war’s conclusion. 1939 was a high point of the democrat inspired KKK and of racism in the USA and Europe. If the flag had been presented to the school during the Civil War, then it should remain in the chapel.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

I wish I wasn’t right!

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

And now we will have Jeb! shoved down our throats to continue the work of the UN and the New World Order. There is not that much difference between the commie Dems and the GOP-e. 2 sides of the same coin.

[Freedom_Is_Not_Free]

Insane, isn’t it. We did so good fighting and beating external enemies. Now we are being assaulted by enemies from within.

[windsorknot]

The mass insanity spreads apace. Welcome to Ameritopia.

[Resolute Conservative]

And ignore the fact that Lincoln freed the slaves in the south, but not the north until after the war. Ignore that democrats are the party of racism and segregation and had active members in the KKK, but no Republican candidate has the temerity to ever bring that up in a campaign.

[SeekAndFind]

The folks at Citadel look at one side of history but ignores the other side.

I am a Northerner and not a Southerner, but support the South's right to fly the Confederate Flag.

Look, if we are going to use the Confederate Flag as a symbol of slavery, then let's be consistent.

The Confederate Flag (Stars and Bars) never flew on a slave ship but many slave ships flew the Stars and Stripes.

Yankee slavers in RI, Mass, NY, and Conn. grew very wealthy in the slave trade.

In fact, the vast majority of KKK rallies had these racists carrying the Stars and Stripes in their marches.

SEE THIS PIC FOR INSTANCE:



So? Are they going to take down the flag of the United States too?

People like these are giving evil fools like Dylann Roof too much power and credibility by capitulating to the hysteria of the moment. By doing this, they are simply providing incentive for the next nutjob to do something similar in the future.

The folks at Citadel look at one side of history but ignores the other side.

I am a Northerner and not a Southerner, but support the South's right to fly the Confederate Flag.

Look, if we are going to use the Confederate Flag as a symbol of slavery, then let's be consistent.

The Confederate Flag (Stars and Bars) never flew on a slave ship but many slave ships flew the Stars and Stripes.

Yankee slavers in RI, Mass, NY, and Conn. grew very wealthy in the slave trade.

In fact, the vast majority of KKK rallies had these racists carrying the Stars and Stripes in their marches.

SEE THIS PIC FOR INSTANCE:



So? Are they going to take down the flag of the United States too?

People like these are giving evil fools like Dylann Roof too much power and credibility by capitulating to the hysteria of the moment. By doing this, they are simply providing incentive for the next nutjob to do something similar in the future.

[Hulka]

The same Citadel that some cadets left school to fight for the South and lost their lives? Dishonoring their memory and dedication? My gawd. . .

http://www.citadel.edu/root/brief-history#duringwbts

“The Citadel and the South Carolina Corps of Cadets during the Civil War

On December 20, 1860, South Carolina formally seceded from the Union, setting the stage for the great civil war that was to follow. In organizing its military units to prepare for war, the South Carolina General Assembly on January 28, 1861, combined the Corps of Cadets at the Citadel and Arsenal into the Battalion of State Cadets and designated the two institutions as The South Carolina Military Academy. The Battalion of State Cadets was made a part of the military organization of the State.{{Footnote [content=Gary R. Baker, Cadets In Gray (Palmetto Book Works, Columbia, SC 1989) pp. 28-29]}}

During the War, the Arsenal and Citadel continued to operate as military academies, however, classes were often disrupted when the governor called the cadets into military service.”