Posted: October 7th, 2005, 7:24 pm
For the past 32 years, the Confederate flag has flown atop South Carolina's Statehouse dome. Now there is finally a movement to move the flag to the grounds around the Statehouse. Many in the white community believe this is a compromise blacks ought to jump on. Some have even offered that the flag be cast in bronze as possible compromise. A few white state legislators promise violence if the flag is not honored "appropriately" and as part of the "compromise," black legislators must agree to leave all Confederate monuments, building, school, street names and the like in place.
http://www.counterpunch.org/scflag.html
In the fifties when Georgia was resisting anti-segregation the racist politicians created a new Georgia state flag.
This was the flag after 1956
In early 1955, Atlanta attorney John Sammons Bell (who later served as a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals) suggested a new state flag for Georgia that would incorporate the Confederate Battle Flag. At the 1956 session of the General Assembly, state senators Jefferson Lee Davis and Willis Harden introduced Senate Bill 98 to change the state flag. Signed into law on February 13, 1956, the bill became effective the following July 1.
This is the new flag since 2001
It is one thing if a private citizen wants to fly a confederate flag. It is another matter if a government wants to fly a confederate flag. Seems like an insult, or worse to its black citizens. In my opinion.
http://www.counterpunch.org/scflag.html
In the fifties when Georgia was resisting anti-segregation the racist politicians created a new Georgia state flag.
This was the flag after 1956
In early 1955, Atlanta attorney John Sammons Bell (who later served as a judge on the Georgia Court of Appeals) suggested a new state flag for Georgia that would incorporate the Confederate Battle Flag. At the 1956 session of the General Assembly, state senators Jefferson Lee Davis and Willis Harden introduced Senate Bill 98 to change the state flag. Signed into law on February 13, 1956, the bill became effective the following July 1.
This is the new flag since 2001
It is one thing if a private citizen wants to fly a confederate flag. It is another matter if a government wants to fly a confederate flag. Seems like an insult, or worse to its black citizens. In my opinion.