NAACP Leaders Will Push SC Confederate Flag Issue
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Published: July 15, 2008
Updated: July 16, 2008
CINCINNATI (AP) - NAACP leaders say they will step up their campaign against flying of the Confederate battle flag on state grounds in South Carolina.
Dennis Courtland Hayes, interim president and CEO, said Monday at the civil rights organization’s national convention in Cincinnati that action plans are in the works and to stay tuned for details.
The NAACP and other critics call the rebel flag a symbol of slavery and racism. Its defenders call it an emblem of Southern pride and heritage.
A 2000 compromise removed the flag from the Capitol dome in South Carolina. It now flies on Statehouse grounds near the Confederate Soldier Monument.
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People has continued a boycott of the state.
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When will they stop? This boycott of South Carolina and the endless griping by the NAACP over the Confederate flag has gone on long enough.
IF the NAACP would read their history, they would see that slavery was a MINOR issue in the Civil war and, in fact, did not even become an issue until after the battle of Gettysburg and they would also see that there was an entire platoon of black men who fought FOR the confederacy.
Aside from this, why should we be forced to give up part of our heritage and have the flag of the South removed from the grounds of the capitol when African Americans have a statue on the same grounds that is dedicated to their heritage.
Finally, why should one minority race be given preference over any other minority race in South Carolina or in America?
The blacks scream racism and our leaders jump to satisfy them but what would these same leaders do if the Native Americans found the American flag offensive?
After all, it was underneath THAT flag that Native American women, children and old people were cut from their necks to their privates and slaughtered as if they were no more than animals.
The NAACP needs to get a life and concentrate on more important issues facing the African American such as how to keep even more of their brothers and sisters from going to prison.
If the flag is removed, they will then demand that the confederate soldier statue be removed, followed by whatever is next on their endless list.



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