The Delaware County Daily Times, today, July 11, included in the AP story regarding the removal of the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Capitol grounds the twistedly disingenuous and curious claim that the flag “had been defended by white Republican leaders until last month as a symbol of Southern pride.”
Of course, the article omitted any reference to the party that raised the flag nor did it bother to note the party to which Gov. Nikki Haley belonged.
So here is some history. The flag was raised in 1962 over the State Capitol in Columbia by Gov. Ernest Hollings, a liberal Democrat, to defend segregation and Jim Crow. Hollings would go on to become a U.S. senator and would serve in the Senate until 2005. He was a friend and supporter of Bill and Hillary Clinton and the progressive big government agenda.
In 1996, conservative Republican Gov. David Beasley made a strong push to remove the flag. He failed to win re-election in 1998 because of it. The die-hard sons of the Confederacy pointedly stayed home while the progressives and their tools in the Black establishment supported his opponent, Jim Hodges, who said he would keep the flag where it was.
Hodges, after much national pressure, agreed to remove the flag from the Capitol dome in 2000 to a monument on the State House grounds.
And there it flew until yesterday when it was removed for good in response to the June 17 Charlestown shootings. The removal was demanded by Gov. Haley, a Republican, and without outside pressure. It was overwhelmingly approved by the overwhelmingly Republican legislature.
The hate from and the lies told by the old media about those whose politics differ from the reporters, photographers, editors and newsreaders are poisoning this country.
So frustrating that people don’t read history. It’s all out there to find. What the Democrat Party is best at is dealing out hate, lies and jealousy. The sad part is that people buy it!