Activist Pulls Down Confederate Flag in Front of South Carolina Statehouse

[BumRushDaShow]

83. Thank you for posting

I saw malaise's GD thread and read the articles and posted still pics... as well as watched some video clips edited by the talking heads...

But this video - of just her and the audio of what she said at the top, and as she descended, was arrested, and was escorted away, literally broke me up.

I am going to honestly say that up here in Philly, I really don't see any Confederate symbols around - whether as a flag or bumper sticker or whatever, but I can see why my mother always said that she would "fly over the south" and refuse to set foot there (although we did take her to Atlanta about 15 years ago for a wedding, and got to see Ebeneezer Baptist church, the Civil Rights Museum, etc.). Here in Philly, we are "above the Mason Dixon Line" and were part of the salvation of so many who fled that evil and the symbol that more recently became the badge of honor for the evil-do-ers.