NAACP votes to end boycott of South Carolina over Confederate flag

For your efforts, you’ve won some salted meats, and a bottle of Rebel Yell, which you can share with the pro-Confederate flag protesters in period uniforms that braved triple-digit temps Friday to watch the flag come down.

Kirkland, who has been a state legislator for 24 years, is the Democratic candidate for Chester mayor. Lawmakers passed a bill this week to remove the flag. President Barack Obama tweeted, “South Carolina taking down the confederate flag – a signal of good will and healing, and a meaningful step towards a better future”. “That would be my guess”. The Confederate battle flag, and more specifically the white Southern “good ol’ boy” mentality it symbolizes, runs as deep in the Palmetto State as the roots of those gnarled old moss-draped oaks that dot the Lowcountry.

“There is no ideal way”, he said.

“He had obviously just got out of prison, and he was talking about my flag and then he wanted to show me his”.

Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) has called for a conversation on how to address the issue.

It could be a hard conversation, as Congressional Black Caucus members and other Democrats have suggested there’s a need to look at a variety of Confederate imagery.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) – The Confederate battle flag has been an albatross around David Beasley’s neck for 20 years, costing him the political legacy of a second gubernatorial term, a seat in the U.S. Senate and beyond. “I think it is a day that we can all say that we have come together as a state“. The swift decision to remove the flag comes five decades after it was raised to commemorate the American Civil War’s centennial and remained at the Statehouse to protest the civil rights movement.

But many don’t find the heritage-not-hate mantra that Revels and so many Southerners use to defend their reverence for the Confederate flag very persuasive.

“The Kid Rock Music Lab is one of 10 permanent exhibitions at the Detroit Historical Museum”, the museum said to WXYZ.

“That was kind of a tipping point for me”, Luckett said. “I have enough work to do”. The white man charged in the slayings, Dylann Storm Roof, had posed with the Confederate battle flag in photos that were posted online before the attack that police say was motivated by racial hatred.

Sandy Leftwich, Revels’ mother, believes those who ascribe racist meanings to the Confederate flag are misguided. But it was another woman – Republican state Rep. Jenny Horne – who guaranteed success with a powerful speech telling her colleagues that enough was enough, and Haley signed it into law Thursday.

South Carolina pulled the Confederate flag from its place of honor at the Statehouse on Friday, marking a milestone in how America commemorates the war that tore the United States apart 150 years ago.

“Yeah, that could be a problem”, Rogers said.

As Wednesday night dragged into Thursday morning, there still had been no vote to take the flag down. So the GOP leadership agreed to let these holdouts have a vote to reinstate the Confederate flag.

The process of handling the Interior bill is further complicated by the fact that the House can only consider the underlying spending bill if it first votes on the controversial Calvert amendment. Being so connected to the Internet allows us to see the world through others’ eyes in a way that generations before us weren’t fortunate enough to experience.