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!<\/em>" 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<\/u> will be the history that South Carolinians are proud of… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"South Carolina House votes to remove Confederate flag from statehouse grounds Washington Post By Elahe Izadi and Abby Phillip July 9, 2015 South 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 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-58295","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58295","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=58295"}],"version-history":[{"count":20,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58295\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58315,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58295\/revisions\/58315"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=58295"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=58295"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/1boringoldman.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=58295"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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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!<\/em>" 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<\/u> will be the history that South Carolinians are proud of… <\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"