newsday.com — U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., called for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies at the South Carolina Statehouse as he attended a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial event at a Greenville church Sunday night.
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hmtksteveJan 16, 2007
What part of, "You're a Liberal Yankee Senator from Connecticut who has no business talking about what flags the STATE of South Carolina wishes to fly over it's capital."As an individual he can talk all he wants, as a Senator he speaks for Connecticut and should keep his mouth shut!
patricia1954Jan 16, 2007
As a black from the Great state of South Carolina it makes me feel bad to read all the bad press about our state. I've lived in every state in this United States , my Dad was in the Air Force. I could have lived anywhere else matter of fact I was encouraged to live somewhere else but I chose South Carolina. The flag needs to come down and its sad when outsiders have to tell you that. We as a people are being hurt by the so called love of a flag and a history that wasn't a good memory for all. Put the flag in a respected place of rest off the State House grounds. I've been tempted to buy a flag and a tee shirt with the flag on it because I really do love the state of South Carolina. We are losing more then gaining by the continual flying of the flag.Take it down and a lot of our young and older people , black and white would come home to help bring businesses , and improve our schools , and enrich our small towns that all but forgotten because of all the attention of a flag.
freffJan 18, 2007
But then I wouldn't be able to digg you down with the single minded intensity that I so love.I actually clicked for the Martin Luther King Jr. I stayed for the crossburning. And the self-loathing.
czechrebelJan 22, 2007
@ chascarrilloOh, yes those articles of secession! On the surface, they are the one think that seems to support the Slavery Theory. Looking at their place in history, those articles of secession don?t really mean anything. The Lincoln government would be very much status quo oriented on social issues. The upstart Republican party was too busy with its tax-and-spend philosophy and could not afford do anything else of a radical nature. The default position of the day was to oppose the expansion of the peculiar institution into new territories and to maintain it wherever it already existed. Lincoln was ready to guarantee slavery with a new Constitutional amendment.So if keeping slavery had been your hot button, your most important issue, you would have nothing to fear from the newly elected Republican government. However, a radical move like secession would open the door all sorts of alternatives. Many who favored secession were well know for their beliefs that slavery was on its way out.Without making reference to the keeping the peculiar institution in tack, many secessionist campaigns would have been doomed. Why throw away the opportunity to enshrine slavery with an amendment for a fledgling independence movement that might go down the road of emancipation? Articles of secession with references that seem to support slavery put the secession movement on equal footing with Lincoln?s promise of a pro-slavery amendment. Now, even the most pro-slavery element of antebellum South had any good reason to be pro-Union.So, with the people who wanted to perpetuate slavery on board, secession became a reality. Of course, even after several Southern States had seceded, Lincoln still offered the amendment to perpetuate slavery, if those Southern States would come back to the Union. Had secession been about slavery, that amendment would have settled it. Had Slavery even been the ?lynchpin? to the secession movement, the South could have taken their amendment and returned to the Union.So, clearly slavery had nothing substantive to do with secession or the war that followed.
czechrebelJan 22, 2007
@ chascarrilloYou seem pretty ignorant yourself. I deplore the racist statement that you have made against Southerners. I am glad that someone with such bigoted anti-Southern ideas won’t be visiting us in South Carolina.BTW what do you consider educated? My entire 6th grade class was more educated than you seem to be. Have you made it as far as 6th grade yet?
czechrebelJan 22, 2007
@ modiggs1976Thanks for the opportunity to honor you again.
freffJan 25, 2007
@BigKittyIt's incredible that you would think that anyone would care enough about you to "cyberstalk" you. It got ugly, to use your words, when you threatened to sue some random digg user who was trolling (kinda like you seem to like to do) and posted what you claimed to be a "death threat". Which in light of some of the disgusting garbage that you seem to like to post either means that you have no sense of the absurd, or you are a troll with a Kaufmanesque sense of humor. Whatever, it doesn't matter. What matters is, you are a joke. And that's not a "bigoted, racist, woman-hating sicko" opinion. It's observable fact. Congrats, you win at the internets. Now it's time to start at life.
egosiaierJun 2, 2007
Dear God...It's been 150 friggin YEARS. There are SOooooo many things that we could get pissed off about. NOBODY alive today was even THERE - so GET THE F&$@ OVER IT~!!!It's NOT a white sheet. It's NOT a burning cross. It was a FLAG flown on a naval ship for a mere two years. The STATE didn't want it because it looked too much like a man with SUSPENDERS~!!!It had NOTHING to DO with SLAVERY - WHY DOES EVERYTHING HAVE TO DO WITH RACISTS!!!???If you hate the confererate flag -- LEARN YOUR HISTORY!!!Don't even THINK about commenting until you do some RESEARCH!And for GOD SAKE - You and TOM CRUISE need to get a f**kIN LIFE!!!!
girlsamuraiDec 6, 2007
Not all KKK is in the South. <a class="user" href="http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/?source=redirec">http://www.splcenter.org/intel/map/?source=redirec</a> ... Also KKK fly the US flag as well at their meetings and events. <a class="user" href="http://www.rulen.com/kkk/">http://www.rulen.com/kkk/</a> So screw the KKK and other racists that make the confederate flag look bad.. Long live the South!!!!!!