Good lord! Now they tried to fly the confederate flag at the capital building.

[nclib]

http://www.newsobserver.com/2013/03/29/2788336/confederate-flag-at-old-nc-capitol.html#disqus_thread

Confederate flag at old NC Capitol coming down

RALEIGH, N.C. — A Confederate battle flag hung inside the old North Carolina State Capitol last week to mark the sesquicentennial of the Civil War is being taken down after civil rights leaders raised concerns.

The decision was announced Friday evening, hours after the Associated Press published a story about the flag, which officials said was part of an historical display intended to replicate how the antebellum building appeared in 1863. The flag had been planned to hang in the House chamber until April 2015, the 150th anniversary of the arrival of federal troops in Raleigh.
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North Carolina NAACP president Rev. William Barber was shocked Friday when he was shown a photo of the flag by the AP.

"He is right that it has a historical context," Barber said. "But what is that history? The history of racism. The history of lynchings. The history of death. The history of slavery. If you say that shouldn't be offensive, then either you don't know the history, or you are denying the history."


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They wanted to leave that thing up for two years! They don't even care!

[ProfessionalLeftist]

1. WTF?

[Hissyspit]

2. Republicans and teabaggers took over state legislature and governorship through gerrymandering.

Art Pope couldn't get elected to office, so bought the government. Now they are attempting implementing extremist right-wing agenda. This seems to be a secondary symptom of new-found arrogance.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

3. Oh believe me I know...they're doing exactly what we knew they would...

....now they're cutting early voting days in half, doing away with same-day voting & registration, and of course implementing Voter ID.

All Teabagger / ALEC crap.

BASTARDS.

I SO want them OUT of here.

[Hissyspit]

4. Oh, I just noticed I'm in the North Carolina forum!

Thought I was in GD.

[ProfessionalLeftist]

5. HA!

Ok that explains it.

[Babel_17]

6. They love to toy with a little bit of that flag nostalgia nonsense

I've sometimes thought it would be good to force them to embrace it whole hog.

Send them full size Confederate flags for their offices. Then ask why it isn't on display. Flags for their cars. Billboards and mailers with their faces and the flag.

What, now they have a problem with the Confederate flag? Well, too bad, because now they own it, whole hog.