While most Americans mourn the Charleston 9, tearing down the hateful flag was a small and much belated step. Even this has hurt the real feelings of some white Southerners who want to feel pride in their heritage. Let me suggest another way. Even though my ancestors have been here for only a[...]
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[...] June 27th, 2015 - 7:52 am § in America
Howsit SC said it could not lower the damned flag to half mast?
Bree Newsome, a 30-year-old youth organizer from Charlotte, North Carolina and James Ian Dyson also from Charlotte, climbed a flagpole in Columbia early on Saturday morning and removed the Confederate flag flying in front of the capitol building. Sadly, the damned flag was raised again at South Ca[...]
June 26th, 2015 - 10:29 am § in Uncategorized
Cop fired for Confederate selfie
Despite its racist image, South Carolina is emerging as the toughest state in the country on misbehaving cops. It’s virtually the only state that’s prosecuting killer cops (with the exception of Baltimore’s recently-elected black district attorney). A few days ago, after last week&[...]