I have no time for anything honoring the confederacy. Those who created the csa, who served in it's government, who lead it's military and who fought on the confederate side in the civil war, along with all their supporters, were traitors. There was no honor in any of their actions, and I find the continuing adoration and hero worship of these traitors repulsive and disgusting. HEY SOUTHERN STATES, YOU LOST THE WAR! I do not honor or have any respect for the memory of the csa and your war dead, I will never show any for those who committed treason against the United States. And I will never show any respect to those who promote the treason of the csa as something too be proud of, do not respect any flag that incorporates the csa flag. I do not respect the politicians, civic leaders, "religious leaders", organizations and individuals who promote the same ignorance, racism, hatred and treason that the csa was founded on. I wish April 9th was a national holiday, make it RESTORATION OF THE UNION DAY, the day traitor robert e lee surrendered to Gen Ulysses S Grant at Appomattox Court House in Virginia. AND we should make June 2nd VS DAY / VICTORY IN THE SOUTH DAY, the day traitor edmund kirby smith surrendered the csa forces West of the Mississippi. Think I am too harsh? Consider what these confederacy worshipers are really like, the latest reminder brought to us by dylann roof, and these articles from +Mother Jones .....
| Thu Jun. 18, 2015 12:31 PM EDT
Pro-flag demonstrators at the South Carolina Capitol after the flag was removed from the dome in 2000. The flag, a symbol of the struggle by a white minority engaged in an armed insurrection to preserve its right to violently enslave the black majority, has long been a divisive issue in the state, and criticism of its continued display flared up again after Wednesday's shooting. It was removed from the Capitol dome after massive protests in 2000, and as part of a compromise, relocated to the Confederate memorial. But the flag's origins in Columbia are a remnant of segregation, not the Civil War—it was first flown over the Capitol in 1962 in response to the civil rights push from Washington.
Despite the most recent incident of racial violence, don't expect the flag to come down any time soon. When Republican Gov. Nikki Haley was asked about it at a debate during her 2014 re-election campaign, she argued that it was a non-issue:
What I can tell you is over the last three and a half years, I spent a lot of my days on the phones with CEOs and recruiting jobs to this state. I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag...We really kinda fixed all that when you elected the first Indian-American female governor, when we appointed the first African American US senator. That sent a huge message.Watch:
Given that less than 1 percent of Fortune 500 CEOS are black (compared with 28 percent of South Carolinians), they may not be the best focus group.
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| Thu Jun. 18, 2015 12:32 PM EDTThe Supreme Court on Thursday upheld the right of the state of Texas to reject a specialty license plate featuring a Confederate flag. The case featured an unusual alliance in which Justice Clarence Thomas, known for his rigid ideological conservatism, teamed up with the court's four liberal justices in a 5-4 majority.
The central issue in this case was whether a message displayed on a license plate is personal speech or government speech.
A Texas board had denied a request by the state chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans for a license plate that displayed the group's name, founding date, and the Confederate flag. The state of Texas argued that license plates are government speech, so the state has the right to censor it. The Sons of Confederate Veterans claimed the plates are private speech, and that the government's decision not to approve its license plate request was discrimination based on viewpoint and a violation of its free-speech rights.
While the government can't engage in viewpoint discrimination of private speech, "[w]hen government speaks, it is not barred by the Free Speech Clause from determining the content of what it says," Justice Stephen Breyer's majority opinion states. "Texas license plates are, essentially, government IDs. And issuers of ID 'typically do not permit' the placement on their IDs of 'message[s] with which they do not wish to be associated.'"
The four dissenting justices argued that the majority "passes off private speech as government speech and, in doing so, establishes a precedent that threatens private speech that government finds displeasing."
Although Texas is now free to deny the Sons of Confederate Veterans a license plate with a Confederate flag, some state governments still embrace the controversial Civil War symbol. In South Carolina, where a shooting Wednesday night in a historic black church left nine people dead, the Confederate flag still flies on state capitol grounds.
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