Great, great, great, great Uncle Cyrus flew the confederate flag over his plantation because he wanted slaves to increase his wealth. It has absolutely no other definition besides the enforcement of slavery for wealth.
June 18, 2015
By Adam Liptak
June 18, 2015By Adam Liptak
WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court(click here) ruled on Thursday that Texas did not violate the First Amendment when
it refused to allow specialty license plates bearing the Confederate
battle flag. Such plates, Justice Stephen G. Breyer wrote for the majority, are the government’s speech and are thus immune from First Amendment attacks.
The
vote was 5 to 4. The court’s other three liberal members joined Justice
Breyer’s majority opinion, as did Justice Clarence Thomas.
“As
a general matter,” Justice Breyer wrote, “when the government speaks it
is entitled to promote a program, to espouse a policy or to take a
position.” Were this not so, he said, the government would be powerless
to encourage vaccinations or promote recycling.
People
use specialty license plates to suggest that the government endorses
the messages they bear, he wrote. Otherwise, he said, people “could
simply display the message in question in larger letters on a bumper
sticker right next to the plate.”...
The idea South Carolina indulges the racists within it's borders with the LIE it honors certain family members that died in the Civil War, is all political. It is extremist and hostile and should not be tolerated. Those that defend the confederate flag over the state's capital, including the Governor and Rep. Sanford has vested interests in that flag, called votes.
The "proper" language surrounding that flag in political discourse has to stop. The flag is about hate and it is about traitors to the United States of America. The flag is about greed and the rejection of freedom for all races in the USA. The confederate flag is about hatred. Stop the justification, it is based in racism.
The idea South Carolina indulges the racists within it's borders with the LIE it honors certain family members that died in the Civil War, is all political. It is extremist and hostile and should not be tolerated. Those that defend the confederate flag over the state's capital, including the Governor and Rep. Sanford has vested interests in that flag, called votes.
The "proper" language surrounding that flag in political discourse has to stop. The flag is about hate and it is about traitors to the United States of America. The flag is about greed and the rejection of freedom for all races in the USA. The confederate flag is about hatred. Stop the justification, it is based in racism.
