Maybe the Palmetto State could hold a raffle for the opportunity to shoot the damn thing down!? I would buy a ticket, especially if I could use shotgun!

 A PROPOSAL

Confederate flag boosters have continued to fight removal of South Carolina’s flag, accusing those who characterize the banner as a symbol of racism and slavery of being bigots and hate mongers.  Others in that state seem to want to look the other way, apparently not caring about the horrible insult to African Americans who live in their state. 

This fight hit a low point a few years agon when a rally was held at the Statehouse to protest the effort to move the only Confederate flag flying over a state Capitol from the dome to its current location on a 30 ft. flagpole in front of the Capital.  . Fomer Ku Klux Klan Grand Wizard  David Duke promised to bring his family to South Carolina for a vacation in support of the flag if the NAACP moves ahead with its threat.

Duke said, “And I am telling the NAACP that if they do not give up this fight, I am going to move to South Carolina because I love the people here,” Duke thundered to scattered and sometimes tentative and uncomfortable applause.  The was tame  compared to that of A.J. Barker, North Carolina state chairman of the Council of Conservative Citizens ,  “They are trying to destroy our heritage and culture,”  “They are the enemies of God and the enemies of our race, supported by people with baggy pants and earrings in the eyes and noses and other places like in the heart of Africa.”

The NAACP  proceeded with the tourism boycott and  42 state and national organizations have canceled meetings or conventions in South Carolina.  The legislature, including the current governor Niki Hlaey, compromised and moved the stars and bars to ti current location.