Flying High!

From the BBC:
"Confederate flag to be removed from South Carolina capitol"

 

The House of Representatives in South Carolina has voted to take down the Confederate flag from capitol grounds after a long and fractious debate. After a final procedural vote, the bill was then signed by Republican Governor Nikki Haley later on Thursday. The flag will be removed at 10:00 ET (14:00 GMT) on Friday, according to Ms Haley's office.

 

^ Good job SC! The flag above is the ONLY flag that should be flown inside the United States (along with state flags -  - minus Mississippi's as it still has the Confederate symbol on it.) I have seen all the rednecks and hillbillies try to defend the Confederate flag and they make as much sense as someone trying to defend the Swastika. The US Civil War did not start in order to free the slaves - that came several years into the war) but it did stand for the South (at least the states that formed the Confederacy from 1860-1865.) The South they were fighting for was one of big plantations and little farms, of free whites and of black and Indian slaves.  The US (ie the North) won the war and as with any victor they decided the terms for the "new" South and they chose to free the black slaves. The Southern states then used a loop-hole in the laws to openly discriminate against the former slaves in the Jim Crow (separate, but equal) despite the fact that the phrase was anything from the truth. In reality the old" South was only a good place for White, Protestant Males. Everyone else   - women, blacks, Indians, non-Protestants, etc  - was deemed an unhealthy outsider to Southern culture the same way the Germans considered all Jews and all non-Aryans to be sub-humans. That mentality was passed through the generations into the 20th Century when the descendants of the "old" South used the Confederate flags and other symbols to fight against equality during the Civil Rights Movement of the 1950s-1960s (a hundred years after they lost the Civil War.) They say history always repeats itself and it did  - the Southern segregationists lost the same way their ancestors lost the Civil War. To anyone living in the "Bible Belt" (ie the South) should see that as a higher sign. They lost both in the 1860s and the 1960s. I have heard people say that Confederate symbols are part of our history and they are correct in that, but it is a dark part (the US Civil War and the bloody Civil Rights Movement.) The only place that a Confederate flag, symbol or name should be found nowadays is in a museum to teach future generations what we had to suffer through and fight against so that ALL Americans (and not merely White, Protestant, Southern Males) can enjoy equality. ^

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-33457169