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Confederate Flag Comes Down for the Last Time
UPIWASHINGTON – The Confederate flag that has flown over the South Carolina state Capitol for almost four decades was due to come down for the last time Saturday – but starting Sunday a similar, slightly smaller flag will still fly on the Statehouse grounds at a Confederate soldier monument.
Saturday, July 1, 2000
The Confederate flag first fluttered from the Statehouse dome in 1962 to celebrate the Civil War's centennial. In recent years controversy over it mounted, with civil rights groups viewing it as a reminder of slavery and campaigning to have it removed. Supporters of the flag saw it as a reminder too – but of the South's cultural heritage.
In June, after a damaging tourism boycott of South Carolina organized by the NAACP, the South Carolina Legislature approved the compromise. But protesters insist they will continue to press the boycott until no Confederate flag flies on the Statehouse grounds. Defenders of the compromise say there is a symbolic difference between flying the flag on the Capitol building and elsewhere on the Statehouse grounds.
According to press reports, recent polls showed that 55 percent of South Carolinians favored the compromise and so did 59 percent of the black community.
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In my view, this is an Unconstitutional intrusion
into the affairs of the South Carolinian people
by the National Association for the Advancement of Communist People (NAACP),
a Communist Front for the suppression of the Rights of White People.
Bard
...federal government defined:
...a welfare/subsidy protection racket.
