Clark Urged to Denounce Ark. Confederate Flag Tributes
An advisor to presidential candidate Gen. Wesley Clark is urging
him to denounce President Clinton's decision, while governor of Arkansas, to
sign into law several measures paying tribute to the Confederacy and Confederate
flag.
"I think [Gen. Clark] would say and should say that he's against the
Confederate flag wherever it is," Clark advisor and former Clinton speechwriter
Michael Waldman told WABC Radio's Steve Malzberg on Sunday.
"The Confederate flag is, to many people, a symbol of racism and slavery," he
added.
"If [Clark] is asked about [the Arkansas Confederate flag celebrations] he
should say that it was a mistake," said Waldman. "I'm sure Bill Clinton would
say the same thing."
In 1987, then-Gov. Clinton signed a bill that designates a star in the
Arkansas flag as symbolic of the Confederacy and issued a proclamation
designating a birthday memorial for Jefferson Davis, the president of the
Confederacy, according to the Washington Times.
Two years earlier Clinton signed Act 985 into law, making Confederate Gen.
Robert E. Lee's birthday a state holiday.
On Friday Gen. Clark, an Arkansan who still lives in the state, told
reporters that South Carolina officials were wrong to allow the Confederate flag
to fly on statehouse grounds.
"I don't believe we ought to be honoring flags that divide us," Clark said
during a conference call. "I don't believe we ought to be . . . keeping that
flag on state grounds or federal grounds," he complained.
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