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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The flag has been located at a Confederate war memorial since 2000. Furthermore, it's not on a pulley.  It's within view of the state house, not on the state house itself. It's on the northern end of the grounds.

T[b]he Confederate flag has a place at the Confederate war memorial - it's a piece of history. [/b]

If you want, you can totally re-write the public school history texts and completely eliminate it and the war. Me? I think it's more important for children to understand history.[/quote]

This may be true, but I would then argue that the Confederate war memorial does not belong on the living, active State House Grounds in 2015.

Signed,

A native of Columbia, SC[/quote]

I think that's ridiculous. [/quote]

Would a Nazi War Memorial belong on the grounds of the Bundestag?[/quote]
Show me the 6 million blacks killed.  [/quote]

So that's your criteria? A set number of people have to be killed by an institution, to make it evil? Columbia, SC native here again. The only way that state is ever going to move forward is for folks like you to recognize that the WAR IS OVER and was, 150 years ago. It has zero to do with ANYTHING going on in the state at this time. The State House is a vibrant (by Columbia standards, anyway) area in the heart of downtown, with living, breathing people going there every day to influence and debate issues that are truly relevant to 2015. To have this stupid memorial front and center there is absurd.[/quote]

A lot of folks died fighting for the confederacy. It's part of our history. Erasing symbols of it allows it to disappear from people's minds. You want history repeated? Go ahead and bury it.[/quote]

First of all, the folks who died fighting for the confederacy were total idiots. If we knew them today, they would be the reddest of the necks. There were a very few extremely wealthy slaveholders and thousands who did their bidding by giving their lives for this stupid "cause," which was nothing more than keeping the money in extremely upper class hands. (And I say this as the descendent of several who took up arms for the south.) Yes, it is all part of our history and I agree that it should not be buried. It should be studied, talked about in schools, etc as it currently is. It should not, however, be celebrated by being memorialized on the state house grounds.[/quote]

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