NAACP Votes to End South Carolina Boycott – Blue Nation Review

Debate over the flag came after a shooting at a historic black church in Charleston left nine dead and renewed questions over the meaning of the flag.

The Confederate flag was originally placed on top of the South Carolina state house in Columbia in 1961 as part of Civil War centennial commemorations.

The collective grief over the deaths of the “Emanuel 9” has had an immeasurable impact on the state and its leaders.

A county employee later picked up the flag and took it away.

The Confederate flag has lingered for 150 years as a symbol of regional pride for some whites in the South, while blacks and others view it as racist emblem of slavery and the often-brutal apartheid imposed for another century after emancipation.

“It was a great example of people of faith using their faith to heal, rather than to divide”, he said, in applauding the people of South Carolina’s actions. “It feels like we, as black people, are more united and seeing that if we all stick together, there’s going to be a change that’s made”. “When my ancestors since they bring up heritage were the ones that were on the short of end of the stick with soldiers, army, police wearing this flag on their helmets and uniforms as they main and tortured my people”.

In leading the call for removal of the Confederate banner, Haley has drawn surprising praise from GOP supporters previously opposed to removing the flag as well as foes who have accused the governor of pandering to archconservatives on almost every issue.

“That’s not who we are we are not that”.

The NAACP announced its boycott in 2000 and maintained it even though the flag was later taken down from the capitol’s dome and placed by a civil war monument in the grounds.

“Today, at long last, this has been done”, he said in a statement. “But overall I just felt like a huge weight was lifted off of the state”, she says.

John Rich, of the duo Big and Rich, told Fox News’ Sean Hannity that he agreed with the call to remove the Confederate flag from its pole outside the South Carolina Capitol.