It’s time to retire the Confederate flag — National Post View

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He then wonders how long it’ll take to remove the flag, which is now padlocked to its pole. All his victims were black. Thus far, the governors of Virginia and North Carolina have revealed that they plan to remove the flag from license plates issued by their states. Though NASCAR bars the use of the flag in any official capacity, many fans fly the flag at their races. Meanwhile, public opinion on the Confederate flag is split along racial lines. Online photos of the accused shooter, who is white, show him wearing or posing with symbols of white supremacy, including the Confederate battle flag.

Confederate groups argue they should not be connected with Roof’s actions.

In 2000, a bill passed by the state legislature said the flag could only be removed with a two-thirds vote from members of the State General Assembly. Bentley told AL.com it was his decision to bring the flag down, calling it “the right thing to do”.

But added, “We don’t want to cause someone continued pain because what it represents”.

The outcry has prompted protests under the “Black Lives Matter” banner.

These symbols are under attack by a “wave of political correctness” that is vilifying Southern culture, complained Ben Jones, the actor who played Cooter on the TV series “Dukes of Hazzard“.

“It is just as bad to observe a holiday to recognize the confederacy”, he said.

For two decades, Alabama has displayed four different Confederate flags around a large monument to Confederate soldiers outside the Alabama Capitol. “Probably what’s going to happen in another couple of years is it’s going to come back around and you’re seeing them all over the place”.

The issue with the flag, Nugent said, is more about political correctness than anything else.

“I know that the Confederate symbol is a little outdated nowadays”, he said.

Beside the casket, there’s a portrait of Pinckney at the Emanuel African Methodist Church in Charleston, where he was the lead pastor and where he was killed along with eight parishioners last week.

As Mr. McConnell, now president of the College of Charleston, explained in a written statement Thursday morning, it is important “to respect the views of all citizens as best we reasonably can”.