NAACP's fairness questioned on Confederate flag issue
Hmm -- why should anyone expect fairness from the NAACP? Or logic, or consistency, or anything one would expect from an ethical organization with a real purpose? Instead we get this:
The NAACP's call for stepped-up sanctions against South Carolina over the Confederate flag is raising charges of unfairness against the national civil rights organization.
The NAACP and the National Collegiate Athletic Association, the governing body of college sports, have sanctions in place against South Carolina because it flies the Confederate flag. The NCAA also has sanctions against Mississippi.
Neither organization, however, penalizes Alabama, which also flies the flag. And that's unfair, some S.C. officials say.
Four Confederate flags — three national flags and a battle flag — fly at the 82-foot-high Confederate Monument, located at the Alabama state Capitol in Montgomery.
"It's puzzling," said state Sen. John Courson, R-Richland.
Here's something to brighten your day, and which also suggests the perfect strategy for Southern activists trying to blunt what's left of the NAACP's edge. It comes from Ed Vaughn, president of the Alabama state NAACP, who's quoted in the article as saying why the Confederate Battleflag isn't an issue in his state:
"We don't have a problem with it there.
"There's a Confederate monument in every crook and town in Alabama," he said. "We just don't pay any attention to them."
Get the idea? And here's just one random place where you can help.
posted by Michael Tuggle @ Friday, July 25, 2008
6 Comments
6 Comments:
WHY do we fight over flags? I have an old couch that I refuse to get rid of despite the fact that my husband despises it. It represents the most wonderful memories of my grandmother helping raise me (it's a 1920 Queen Anne purchased by her ritzy sister). It's going for it's second recovering in a short while and has it's own special place designed in our new houseplan. To him it represents nothing more than junk! We have fought over it but we have realized that the honor and wonderful memories that this couch represents in my life is not worth fighting over any longer. So he accepts it and I simply love to sit on it, smell it's oldness, and remember the days she and I used to talk about its history.
To me a flag is the same. Our American flag is the highest symbol of honor and freedom we can ever have yet few treat it with the integrity it should require. The Confederate flag serves to remind us of times when brothers turned on brothers and our country nearly imploded over disagreements that had to be resolved for us to continue. It reminds us of the honor with which both sides fought regardless of the arguments regarding cause and circumstance. It reminds us that peace is possible and that freedom is a foremost concept in our country's history. I do not understand why some want to make it anything more or less than that. I see so many Mexican flags flying these days and I don't see an entire organization fighting to stop that.
Nelson Rivers III says, " SC has always been the most defiant when it comes to repecting the wishes of black folk." Well I wonder where he was when Harvey Gant successfully entered Clemson, my alma mater,without protest or fanfare? I also wonder where he was when the African American Negro monument was built upon the state house grounds?
He further boasts of having discussions to change the Miss. state flag as if this is going to happen. He wants to ignore the effort of a statewide referendum in which a majority of negro voters participated in to keep the flag the way it is.
People in SC are reacting to all of this folly as ludicrous . No one wants to revisit the issue. No one in Miss will either.
Rivers is grandstanding..plain and simple! He keeps this charade up and he will lose favour among the members as they see it for what it is..A SHAM!
PS. Saddlegait
I agree with your post , except for 2 points. The peppermint flag no longer has any honour.The empire was a result of all of the implosion you mention. We southerners see it for what it is Maybe you still have hope of a republic. I CERTAINLY DON'T And..
MOST DEFINITELY THE SOLDIERS FROM LINCOLN'S ARMY AS A RULE HAD NO HONOUR!
South Carolina and Mississippi are just embracing their history as Confederate states. There shouldn't be anything "offending" about it, though I am aware of how blacks were treated in the CSA.
Even after the CSA collapse the South was still anti-black. Passing segregation laws and such.
I fail to see both the NAACP and NCAA's points on this issue.
...if you can even call it an issue!
Are the people who post here secessionist or apologist? You cannot be both. The comments show how the rot of the federal cancer has spead. In my opinion; If you fly or pledge allegiance to that bloody spangle and stripes, you are a traitor to our cause. And if you have guilty feelings concerning lawfully protected "institutions", such as slavery and the rights of the States. Depart from us, and may your chains be set upon you lighty, for we never knew you. The Confederate Flag is a symbol drench in the blood of patriots true to the cause of just and right. The Flag is unfurled in my heart and over my home. To hear or see the attacks against the flag of my fathers by such menial minded people is to be expected but never tolerated. As for fairness. Verizon, Rite Aide, Wachovia, Exxon, Chevron, BP, McDonalds, Burger King and many more support and sponser the naacp and there sinister plots against the Southern People. Do you support the genocide of your family? If so, continue business with these and others to ensure your hasty demise. As for me, I'll stand in the breach from which you were taken and reclaim the liberties stolen from us. God Save the South.
"But Lonnie Randolph, president of the South Carolina NAACP, said the flag's hateful symbolism is the issue, not fairness." This line from the article sums it up--this is not about "justice" at all, this is about ethnic cleansing. Louisiana has a Third National flag squeezed in between the Republic of Louisiana flag and the US flag in the common area between the House and Senate chambers in the state Capitol. The display represents the governments Louisiana has had. The only complaints were from a David Duke-led faction which wanted a naval flag instead of the the Third National. And the way the NCAA schools force female athletes to choose between scholarships and their children and the way the NAACP endorses abortion makes you wonder if the goal is to eradicate Southerners of all races.
I repeat here what I said in reply to another post...
"I have no use for the flag of 'those people.' Yeah, that one, the one with subjugated stars and the bloody stripes of a tyrant's whip."
Brethren, take down the other "rag" and replace it with the Confederate Battle Flag! May it wave forever over our homes and hearths!
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