It's a Great Day in South Carolina

[Minimalist]

Custer was also last in his class.

[Thumpalumpacus]

There is really only one problem with the theater piece being played out in South Carolina.

They think they have solved the problem and they haven't.

Dingdingdingding

It's a band-aid being waved about as an answer to a mass murder, and centuries of brutality.

I'm sure the white folk there will sleep the sleep of the just. But what will have changed tomorrow morning?

[Anomalocaris]

Custer was also last in his class.

Let's hope we get to witness conservatives' little big horn.

[Minimalist]

[Whateverist]

The country is falling apart for the religious right. The end is nigh. Next we start herding the christian majority into concentration camps.

Love it when a plan comes together.

[Nope]

Poor southerners still vote against their own interest because they believe they might, possibly be rich one day. It wouldn't surprise me if poor southeners also had the same feelings about owning slaves. Remember the same men who fought for the Confederts are the same ones who created Jim Crow laws that prevented blacks from actually being equal to whites.

Some of my ancestors must have fought for the Confederates but I feel no need to honor them. They would have had to have been idiots to not know their leaders were fighting over slavery. That doesn't mean that they weren't manipulated by rich southerners but why would I celebrate that?

The flag coming down is a good, small step but there is so much more to address not just in the south but the entire nation

[Crossless2.0]

Poor southerners still vote against their own interest because they believe they might, possibly be rich one day. It wouldn't surprise me if poor southeners also had the same feelings about owning slaves. Remember the same men who fought for the Confederts are the same ones who created Jim Crow laws that prevented blacks from actually being equal to whites.

Some of my ancestors must have fought for the Confederates but I feel no need to honor them. They would have had to have been idiots to not know their leaders were fighting over slavery. That doesn't mean that they weren't manipulated by rich southerners but why would I celebrate that?

The flag coming down is a good, small step but there is so much more to address not just in the south but the entire nation

Aside from their pathetic need to feel superior to someone and from whatever genuine patriotism may have motivated them, it's worth noting that many poor southerners signed on to fight out of a sense of self-interest as they understood perfectly well that they could get priced out of work by the sudden existence of free blacks entering the labor pool.

Of course, many poor whites in the North opposed the war for similar reasons -- Irish immigrants especially.

[Mister Agenda]

There is really only one problem with the theater piece being played out in South Carolina.

They think they have solved the problem and they haven't.

Dingdingdingding

It's a band-aid being waved about as an answer to a mass murder, and centuries of brutality.

I'm sure the white folk there will sleep the sleep of the just. But what will have changed tomorrow morning?

Mainly that folks don't have to see that flag waiving in front of the State House at the intersection of Main and Gervais. That's not nothin'.

[Iroscato]

It is roughly on the same level as the Nazi Swastika, and must be dealt with in comparable ways. This is a small, but satisfying step towards a better nation.

[Thumpalumpacus]

Mainly that folks don't have to see that flag waiving in front of the State House at the intersection of Main and Gervais. That's not nothin'.

Symbolic actions are useful sometimes. But at the end of they day, they're still only symbolic.