Once politically sacrosanct, Confederate flag moves toward an end

Washington Post ^ | 6/23/15 | Karen Tumulty

[ghost of stonewall jackson]

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh told his listeners Tuesday that the effort to get rid of the flag is aimed at “destroying the South as a political force,” and he predicted, “The next flag that will come under assault, and it will not be long, is the American flag.”

Its defenders say the Confederate banner is a link to bygone times and an expression of opposition to federal encroachment on states’ rights. But in many Southern states, the flag did not gain currency until the 1950s and early 1960s, at a time of white resistance to desegregation and the civil rights movement. Advertisement

“If it was purely a flag representing the region, albeit one involved with a stupid war, I would be proud of it,” said Curtis Wilkie, a journalist and historian of the South who teaches at the University of Mississippi. “Yet it’s become something entirely different and therefore objectionable.”

Over the years, there have been a number of endeavors to do away with the Confederate flag, which has often projected an image of being stuck in another century.

The South Carolina Chamber of Commerce began advocating in the late 1990s for the flag’s removal from the capitol dome in Columbia, where it had flown since 1961. Some of the organization’s members resigned in protest. As a compromise, legislators decided in 2000 to remove the flag from the building and fly it on the statehouse grounds instead.

[ghost of stonewall jackson]

i think your battle flag has a few too many stars...

[Biggirl]

....And next, rebellion.

[ForYourChildren]

“The next flag that will come under assault, and it will not be long, is the American flag.”

And it will be replaced with the beautiful rainbow the flag. The only flag that really represents inclusion, diversity, and tolerance for all. {sick}

[kallisti]

There was a caller yesterday morn on CSPAN who wanted all Confederate monuments razed and all cemetaries bulldozed.

[chris37]

The flag ain’t going anywhere.

[ForYourChildren]

“This mob mentality deliberately being used by the hard core left and sucking in spineless, idiot Republicans..”

Yes. We live in an age where injury to feelings has become so important that the left uses it as a weapon. Feelings over reason and fact. Mob mentality over injured feelings. We are witnessing a good example of the manipulation of useful idiots.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

The same Libs who weep and wail when ISIS and the Taliban destroy ancient statues suddenly foam at the mouth and demand the destruction of all Confederate monuments throughout the South.

Go figure! Even the ancient Romans erected statues to Hannibal, the enemy of ROME.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

I haven’t seen this madness and hysteria in America since Bobby Kennedy got shot back in 1968.

[NorthMountain]

Here's what the commie bastards really want to ban:

[alloysteel]

And the reinterpretation goes on. It is only a short step now, to outlaw the display of the national flag of that nation once known as “the United States of America”.

That territory has become a sort of a no-morals, no-principals, free-fire zone for every despicable and unlovely emotion of which humanity is capable. Honest and civil discourse has been abandoned, in favor of “instant regulation” and populist legislation.

Do not underestimate the power of large numbers of stupid people once their attention has been directed.

[Charles Martel]

This whole effort is designed to split the south, which has become solidly Republican.

Yep, and the "JournoList" gang is exulting in the opportunity to once again dredge up this pet issue (which has been a total non-starter for fifteen years or more). They're even trying to use this to breathe some life into Jeb's campaign.

[ghost of stonewall jackson]

so should we erect statues to barack obama?

[Tench_Coxe]

Raise the Gadsden instead....
No matter what region of the country, the Left is the common enemy. Regionalism needs to be set aside to fight it.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

As a reminder to America, NEVER AGAIN!

[GGpaX4DumpedTea]

“Raise the Gadsden instead....”

And also remember the Moultrie Flag...especially significant to South Carolina and Charleston.

[mosesdapoet]

Use of the Confederate Flag by a insane person certainly deflects from his manifesto as his excuse citing the assults and murders of completely innocent whites, “hispanics, and asians, committed by black youths and their reason for the cold blood killing of Treyvon Martin. Doesn’t it ?

[Uversabound]

campuses of American schools.

You are not listening to Rush because this is exactly what he talks about that the millenials in colleges are being taught to hate america, love diversity etc from an early age.

Just yesterday...

[ForYourChildren]

yes, they want to replace this

With this:

This is the flag that really represents tolerance, inclusion, and diversity. {sick}

[ßuddaßudd]

Dude, that bird is eating a snake,, and that makes me uncomfortable . . . /sarc

[jmacusa]

I do not believe in the veneration of The Confederate Flag. That’s my personal belief. I do not however supported it’s ban or an individuals right to own one. If that flag can be banned, then like speech, any other symbol, right up to The Stars And Stripes can be banned. This is madness.