Washington PostBy Elahe Izadi and Abby PhillipJuly 9, 2015South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley is set to sign a bill that will bring down the Confederate flag on the statehouse grounds, less than a day after lawmakers in the state House of Representatives voted to remove it. Haley, a Republican, called for the flag’s removal last month in the wake of the shooting massacre inside a Charleston church. The bill cleared its final legislative hurdle early Thursday morning when the House voted 94 to 20 in favor of the proposal.
After more than 13 hours of debate — which became increasingly contentious as the night wore on — House Republicans and Democrats agreed not to amend the legislation with a proposal that threatened to make final passage more difficult. Just before 1 a.m., the lawmakers voted 93 to 27 to move it forward in a critical second-reading vote. Minutes later, the bill easily cleared the two-thirds threshold needed for it to officially pass the chamber, a hurdle the state Senate cleared earlier this week.
If you didn’t grow up in the South in the 1940s and 1950s, you couldn’t possible imagine how big this is. That license plate on the right was on the front of many cars [in some places "most cars"] and "The South shall rise again!" was a stock phrase. Even those of us who were dedicated to racial equality and were marching in the streets saw that flag and those slogans, as having some misty-eyed meaning. That was wrong. And many of us figured that out along the way. But for the Legislature of the State of South Carolina to actually do something about it is truly a something I thought I’d never see. There will come a time when this something will be the history that South Carolinians are proud of…
I am sure if the flag was removed years earlier, there would have been no shooting by Roof. Such a non issue.
Hey, five people shot just LAST NIGHT here in Baltimore, maybe we could take down a couple of monuments like the Left/Democrats are shrilling about here.
God forbid someone does something of substance about gun violence, like keep these scum bags in prison for years, if not just execute them for repeated killings if genuinely found guilty. But, that is not the narrative of the Left/Democrats. How about all that silence over at 1600 Pennsylvania avenue with Kathryn Steinle’s death?
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/megyn-kelly-blasts-obamas-silence-on-san-fran-shooting-he-picks-and-chooses-the-victims-he-wants-to-highlight/article/2568015?custom_click=rss
Guess no ceremony to distract and encourage the choir, eh?
I never thought I’d see the day either, Mickey. In some very important ways, our world has changed. I don’t think there’s any going back, either.
The decision by the S. Carolina legislature was a watershed political moment. The Civil War is now over.
Lest we discount the profound historical influence on the meaning of “Flags”–
https://youtu.be/UTduy7Qkvk8