Hillary Clinton Celebrates Confederate Flag's Removal At MLK Day Ceremony

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Democratic presidential hopeful Hillary Clinton praised South Carolina for removing the Confederate flag from the statehouse grounds in Columbia as roughly 1,000 gathered to honor Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s legacy.

Monday's "King Day at the Dome" celebration marked the first time the state has officially honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day without the racist symbol flying above the crowd. Civil rights activists had previously used the holiday to call for the flag's removal.

"How wonderful it is to be here together without the Confederate flag overhead," Clinton said. "That flag always belonged in a museum, not at the statehouse."

The Confederate flag was removed from the statehouse in July, less than a month after nine people were shot and killed at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church, a historic black church in Charleston. The flag had flown over the state capitol for more than 50 years.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/hillary-clinton-confederate-flag-mlk-day_us_569d1a05e4b0778f46fa238a

[oasis]

1. A positive gesture deserves a positive first post.

[riversedge]

2. Yes. it does.

[oasis]

3. Kickeroo

[merrily]

4. Yet another evolution, or, if you prefer, yet another instance of leading from behind.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12778959

[merrily]

7. No, the info is true and YOU'RE pretending that I referred in any way to when she "evolved."

I neither said nor implied anything about the timing of her evolution. And, as you say, the information is all there. I hid nothing.


You seem desperate for a way to make it about me, rather than about Hillary.

BTW, I would not brag about or find a lot of comfort in 2007, if I were a Hillary supporter.

[merrily]

9. I've already replied in full to that comment. You seem to enjoy repeating yourself. I don't.

[NCTraveler]

6. Nice.

“I personally would like to see it removed from the Statehouse grounds.”

[dsc]

10. the Arkansas flag is different

The flag had representation from every empire or country which ruled over it (something your link all so conveniently leaves out). And that makes a major difference. It also matters that this wasn't done as a direct result of the civil rights movement as nearly every other state that had confederate flags did. It is one thing to recognize history, quite another to pretend to do so while taking swipes at the civil rights movement.

[merrily]

11. Disagree, but what of Hillary's helping lead Arkansas in celebrating Confederate Flag Day?

[dsc]

16. I didn't see anything in your link saying she helped celebrate the day

[merrily]

18. Really? It was right in the subject line of the post to which I linked and in the body of the post;.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/12778959

Further info would have been in the sources given in that post.

But, of course, the issue is not whether it was in the post to which I linked, but whether she did that and whether that was the right thing to do. She did and it wasn't.

[Katashi_itto]

12. Great Photo op.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

13. I heartily concur.

Lovingly and respectfully,
DSB

[Katashi_itto]

14. But not much else.

[DemocratSinceBirth]

15. I must respectfully disagree.

Lovingly and respectfully,
DSB

[Orsino]

17. Good stuff.

I think the flag belongs in an incinerator, but that was a nice, diplomatic little twist Clinton gave. I don't have the heart to read what Republicans on hand had to say, but I presume it was bogus.