Battle of Fort Sumter (April 12–14, 1861) First Act of The Civil Wat
They sort of took it down. The compromise is that it flies on the capitol grounds beside a memorial to South Carolina’s Confederate dead. The calim is that it hnors the npoble dead who fount a war to keep humans like cattle. Imagine of Germany said the same for its Swastika?
There is no way to separate slavery from the causes of the Civil War od r this flag. Flying it in the state that led the secession over slavery the sate that bred Africans and Indians to make better slaves, the state of Jim Crow is a terrible insult to all the African Americans.
We, the people of the State of South Carolina, in convention assembled, do declare and ordain, and it is hereby declared and ordained, That the ordinance adopted by us in convention on the twenty-third day of May, in the year of our Lord one thousand seven hundred and eighty-eight, whereby the Constitution of the United States of America was ratified, and also all acts and parts of acts of the General Assembly of this State ratifying amendments of the said Constitution, are hereby repealed; and that the union now subsisting between South Carolina and other States, under the name of the “United States of America,” is hereby dissolved.