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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I don't see how any black person could feel welcome living in the state, doing business with the state, or getting justice in the state w the flag looming over the Capitol, never to be lowered in respect. 
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What an idiotic statement given millions of blacks live there, and [b]quite alright[/b].[/quote]

You are oblivious and clueless, PP.  And I'm saying that as a white guy. [/quote]

White guy, as I said before to many likes of you--if you want to change the world, start with yourself and get a freaking clue. The flag is on over the Capitol. It is on grounds as a tribute to the state's history.[/quote]

It is inappropriate on multiple levels as it is the battle flag, it's not even the CSA national flag.  Does Japan fly its WWII battle flag over its government buildings?  No.  Does any other enlightened, modern government do that?  No.

But even that doesn't scratch the surface.  It is the flag of what was a hostile, foreign nation to the US.  It is the flag of treason.  It is a flag that calls for the destruction of the US.  It is the flag of an aggressor that fired the first shots and drew the first blood of the Civil War - it was *NOT* the "War of Northern Aggression" as southern Revisionists living in fantasy land like to call it - because the battle of Fort Sumter proves otherwise, that the South, and specifically South Carolina was the aggressor, not the North.  It is the flag of a dead state that only existed for a brief but bloody, violent and vicious 4 years that left hundreds of thousands dead.  It is the flag of a nation that went to war to not just defend slavery, but to try and expand slavery into the western territories.  It is a flag that was NOT FLOWN anywhere on South Carolina state grounds for nearly 100 years after the Civil War.  The only reason it came back was because of racist neo-confederates who wanted to defend segregation, white supremacy and Jim Crow laws hoisted the flag at the South Carolina state house again for the first time in the 1960s.  Prior to that, it didn't have a "history" with South Carolina for nearly 100 years.  Since then, it's "history" has been tainted with nothing but racism.  Today it is the flag of the KKK, and of white supremacists, it is a symbol of racist mass murderers.

THAT is its history, my friend.  REAL history, not just some vague mumbo jumbo fantasy about "truhdishern" that rednecks like you love to mumble.  That is history that you do not get to pick and choose.  That is history that you do not get to omit.  That is the history that you apparently need to be reminded of, every day that the flag continues to fly.  If you think otherwise, you are the one who needs to get a clue.[/quote]

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