S. Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley Calls for Removal of Confederate Flag From State Capital

Originally Posted by TD's & Beer

It's a Cultural Revolution! Mao would be proud.

One flag is still flying



TAMPA — Tampa’s mayor says it’s time for the huge Confederate battle flag flying near a heavily traveled Hillsborough intersection to go.

But the only way the flag will come down is in a hurricane, says the leader of a local Confederate history group that maintains the flag and flagpole.

Even then, the world’s largest battle flag would rise again, said David McAllister, commander of the Judah P. Benjamin Camp, the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.

“We all sympathize with the poor victims of Charleston, but the flag did not cause that to happen,” McAllister said Monday. “That was a horrible crime done by a mentally ill criminal responsible for his own actions, and people calling for gun and flag limitations in response are standing against the American Constitution. The flag shouldn’t remind people of a bad thing, but remind them that bad times were overcome.”

http://tbo.com/news/breaking-news/in...ight-20150622/

Good for them. Hopefully they keep the spark lit until this nonsense goes away and the fire is re-lit.

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Originally Posted by TD's & Beer

EBay has stopped selling them - you can still get your Nazi memorabilia and communist flags there though


The South is dead


The Dixie Flag Company

We are currently sold out of Confederate Battle flags and will not sell them in the foreseeable future. We have sold this historic flag for 57 years, but in recent days it has drawn intense criticism and served to divide our country. We feel that we do not need to contribute to this division

https://www.facebook.com/DixieFlagCo

Yeah, I read that about Ebay after I posted that, but what I was getting to was the "small guys" will be able to make money.

There will always be a demand, just b/c the retail giants don't sell them means little.

Orwellian.....

FedGov is asking all vendors on federal land to cease selling Confederate flags.


The National Park Service to stop selling Confederate flags.

America’s national parks are no longer selling Confederate battle flags in their bookstores and gift shops.

The National Park Service (NPS) announced on Thursday that the historic emblem will no longer be available as a memento for visitors to the parks system.

http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/246116-national-park-service-to-stop-selling-confederate-flags

I guess the Stars and Bars will be next...the Left hates that one even more


Farrakhan: I Don’t Get Debate Over Confederate Flag, ‘We Need to Put the American Flag Down’

The racist leader of the Nation of Islam told a largely black audience in Washington, D.C. that "we need to put the American flag down" because "we've caught as much hell under that as the Confederate flag."

http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/...flag_down.html

Originally Posted by BnG_Hevn

Yeah, I read that about Ebay after I posted that, but what I was getting to was the "small guys" will be able to make money.

you are right, there is one at least


This Confederate Store Owner Is Thrilled the ‘Big Boys’ Don’t Want to Sell Flag


Major U.S. retailers say they’re done selling the Confederate flag—but Dewey Barber is just getting started.

—he plans to begin manufacturing the Confederate flag and add it to the lineup on his Dixie Outfitters website, now that the “big boys” are out of the business.

http://time.com/3933820/dixie-outfitters-confederate-flag-retailer/

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but still, no one is safe during The Purge


Can We Please, Finally, Get Rid of ‘Aunt Jemima’?

Amid the current efforts to remove the Confederate flag as a symbol from state and federal buildings and to divest from its commercial circulation as a product and commodity, it is also important to remember that a host of products lining grocery store shelves to this day, including Aunt Jemima Pancake Mix and Aunt Jemima Syrup, are also very much linked to Southern racism.

http://www.nytimes.com/roomfordebate...of-aunt-jemima

Originally Posted by salamander

This country is seriously going to hell in a hand basket. We are so royally screwed.

Going? We are already there. Our country as we know it is fucked (sorry for the language). What we knew as a great nation is now gone. I guess when you elect a President...twice...who says he "wants to fundamentally change America" this is what you get. And for the record, I think that every single politician, all R's and D's and I's and G's and L's, is a criminal and will do whatever they can do to be reelected, damned the people they represent.

Oh, and political correctness is going to be the straw that broke the camels back. Just my two cents, and after the govt taxes those two cents my opinion really isn't worth a damned, but I typed it anyways.

And the liberal double standard continues.

Apple Bans Civil War Games from App Store over Confederate Flag

Apple has pulled all games from its App Store which contain the Confederate flag. When explaining to developers why their content was banned, Apple stated it was “because it includes images of the confederate flag used in offensive and mean-spirited ways.”
http://www.breitbart.com/big-hollywo...federate-flag/

the liberal double standard continues

All is well - iPhone factories have put up new anti-suicide nets to protect their slave workers

Charleston cop fired for posing in Confederate flag boxers.

A North Charleston police officer who posted a photo of himself wearing Confederate Flag boxer shorts to Facebook has been fired.

Police Chief Eddie Driggers issued a termination letter to the officer, Sgt. Shannon Dildine, saying the photo undermines the officer's "ability to improve trust and instill confidence when working with our citizens."

http://www.abcnews4.com/story/294118...nd-on-facebook

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The Purge is working smoothly

Originally Posted by TD's & Beer

Charleston cop fired for posing in Confederate flag boxers.

A North Charleston police officer who posted a photo of himself wearing Confederate Flag boxer shorts to Facebook has been fired.

Police Chief Eddie Driggers issued a termination letter to the officer, Sgt. Shannon Dildine, saying the photo undermines the officer's "ability to improve trust and instill confidence when working with our citizens."

http://www.abcnews4.com/story/294118...nd-on-facebook

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The Purge is working smoothly

I semi-agree with this. If you're stupid enough to do that when you work for a public / state office, you're in an idiot.

My wife's friend is a school teacher. She refuses to go on to Facebook b/c you don't want people to skew your personal beliefs / opinions into what you do for a living.

When you work any kind of public type job, you need to keep your nose clean. Regardless of what you personally believe, you need to keep it clean.

Regardless of what you personally believe, you need to keep it clean.

Achtung! Everyone must wear zee underwear on zee outside from now on! Vee must see what you are hiding!


meanwhile, the cultural whitewash rolls on

National Cathedral to remove Confederate stained glass

WASHINGTON — The dean of Washington National Cathedral has called for two stained-glass windows featuring Confederate flags to be taken down from the Gothic edifice, in yet another instance of institutions reconsidering countless tributes to the Southern cause.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...dows/29299901/

All this ignorance is deafening. Everybody just go back to staring at your phone apps.

Originally Posted by BnG_Hevn

My wife's friend is a school teacher. She refuses to go on to Facebook b/c you don't want people to skew your personal beliefs / opinions into what you do for a living.

One of the many reasons (besides the simple fact that my life simply isn't interesting enough to broadcast much like the other 99.999% of people who do post regularly on Facebook and for some reason think theirs are) I don't mess with Facebook (or Twitter) or any other social media, for that matter. It's bad enough that prospective employers can check your credit (which is irrelevant if you work outside of accounting/finance), why give them any other reasons not to hire you?

Not that I'm looking for work at the moment, but that can always change really quick, especially in this economy...

Originally Posted by tube517

Lol. Awesome.

If only the "white man's flag" designer hadn't said, “As a people, we are fighting to maintain the heaven ordained supremacy of the white man over the inferior or colored race", it wouldn't have such a bad rep.

Heritage not hate is a meaningless distinction when that's the heritage.

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Originally Posted by vader29

Warner Bros scraps Dukes of Hazzard car toys over Confederate flag controversy

The Confederate flag may or may not be removed from government buildings in South Carolina, but the relic is definitely being removed from at least one southern icon. Warner Bros. today announced that it was halting production of toys and replicas of the General Lee, the car from the Dukes of Hazzard, which famously bore the flag on its roof. The company follows in the footsteps of retailers Amazon, Sears, eBay, and Walmart, all of whom elected to ban sales of the Confederate flag and its image this week after the racially motivated murders in Charleston on Sunday.

Read more: http://www.theverge.com/2015/6/23/88...nfederate-flag

There's a new design

What are they going to do about Arlington National Cemetery, the former home of Confederate General Robert E. Lee?

I say take them all off - slowly

South Carolina - "You touch OUR flag - you go to jail"


Woman removes Confederate flag from front of SC statehouse

The Confederate flag has been temporarily removed from in front of the South Carolina Statehouse.



An unidentified black woman was about halfway up the more than 30-foot steel flagpole just after dawn Saturday when State Capitol police told her to come down. Instead, she continued up and removed the flag before returning to the ground.

The woman and another man who had entered the wrought-iron fence surrounding the flag were arrested.

The flag, which is protected by state law, was raised again a short time later.

http://www.greenvilleonline.com/stor...ouse/29384035/

Originally Posted by fansince'76

Well, the Confederacy DID lose the Civil War, so that flag really shouldn't be flown on public property like a state capital.

Flying it outside one's home IS a redneck move as well.

Agree on both counts.

I wouldn't call Haley's decision appeasement. Just a symbolic way of saying FU to the church shooter and doing something that should be done anyway.

I don't care either way about the Confederate battle flag. I would never want to display one, and it's been used as a symbol of racism in modern times, but there are a lot of people who display it with no malicious intent.

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Originally Posted by fansince'76

One of the many reasons (besides the simple fact that my life simply isn't interesting enough to broadcast much like the other 99.999% of people who do post regularly on Facebook and for some reason think theirs are) I don't mess with Facebook (or Twitter) or any other social media, for that matter. It's bad enough that prospective employers can check your credit (which is irrelevant if you work outside of accounting/finance), why give them any other reasons not to hire you?

Not that I'm looking for work at the moment, but that can always change really quick, especially in this economy...

Yep.

I currently work in a job related to customer service. I haven't posted a Facebook update in years. Mostly because it's pointless, but I also don't want a customer to google my name and then give my company a hard time because I posted an opinion they don't like, or for that matter insulted Tom Brady or Nick Saban.

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Originally Posted by TD's & Beer

Achtung! Everyone must wear zee underwear on zee outside from now on! Vee must see what you are hiding!


meanwhile, the cultural whitewash rolls on

National Cathedral to remove Confederate stained glass

WASHINGTON — The dean of Washington National Cathedral has called for two stained-glass windows featuring Confederate flags to be taken down from the Gothic edifice, in yet another instance of institutions reconsidering countless tributes to the Southern cause.



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...dows/29299901/

That should never have been there in the first place. Stained glass windows in a cathedral should be limited to saints or Biblical figures.

Well NASCAR says the South isn't dead yet

Fans can still fly the Confederate flag during NASCAR races



http://chronicle.augusta.com/sports/...g-nascar-races

Originally Posted by stillers4me

QFT!!!

The South fights back Pro-Confederate flag rally held at South Carolina Statehouse

The supporters argued that they believe a majority of people in the state want the flag to remain where it is. To remove it, they said, would be to go against the will of the people



http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/n...ouse/29406303/

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Alabama flag company begins Confederate flag production in-store, over 1,000 sold on first day

After the manufacturer decided to no longer supply Confederate flags to her business, Alabama Flag and Banner owner Belinda Kennedy decided to take matters into her own hands.

Starting early Friday morning, Belinda and the employees at Alabama Flag and Banner began producing Confederate flags in-store using their own materials and equipment. And just as soon as they hit the machines, the orders came pouring in.

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/in...er_begins.html

It's funny how everyone is against some people flying he confederate flag yet everyone wants people to fly the gay-pride flag...there's really no difference between flying the two flags...both "groups" of people should have the right and freedom to fly them.

Originally Posted by 86WARD

It's funny how everyone is against some people flying he confederate flag yet everyone wants people to fly the gay-pride flag...there's really no difference between flying the two flags...both "groups" of people should have the right and freedom to fly them.

Big Brother will decide what flag is appropriate for you to display, comrade, your thoughtcrime will be reported

or maybe this?

Now it's getting ridiculous...

http://www.ew.com/article/2015/07/01...e-flag-tv-land