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Confederate Memorial Day in South Carolina

South Carolina Celebrates Confederacy and Secession


 

Here we go again.

Imagine being African American today in Charleston where my brother-in-law and sister live.  My sister is Jewish, I wonder if she ever thinks how it would be to live there if the crossed bars were instead a twisted cross?

South Carolina celebrates many of the same legal holidays as the rest of the United States, such as New Year’s Day, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, the 4th of July, and Thanksgiving.  In 2012, State Representative Boyd Brown, Democrat from Winnsboro, called for the end of taking Confederate Memorial Day off as a legal holiday, but to continue to celebrate it. Former State Rep. Brown merely saw it as an inefficient holiday.

 

 

 


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  1. theaveeditor #
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    Cheryl Mavrikos (FACEBOOK)

    Your sister is Jewish but you are not? By the way, the “crossed Bars” are called the Southern Cross and it is not a racist symbol, shame on you for comparing it to a swastika.

  2. theaveeditor #
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    Anyone who does not understand that the Hackenkeuz and the Southern Cross stand for the same thing is a bigot? Are you a Jew?

  3. Brett #
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    There is a long and documented history of Jewish people serving for the Confederacy, most of which, ironically, were FROM Charleston. If your sister is offended by a flag that had no impact on the well-being of Jewish-Americans, that’s due to her own ignorance. But honestly, lets not bring her into this, this is a ridiculous hypothetical.