uhhh ...say what ??

[jeezeweeze]

Puter has been down......missed you guys

Guess what we in South Carolina celebrated today..... State offices were closed down today........



give up?????




CONFEDERATE MEMORIAL DAY.....


Im still shaking my head in disbelief....

[Highwayman]

At least it’s an American holiday.

[TexKan]

Aw Weezie......... didn't ya have mint juleps??????............. Hell we didn't celebrate it....... but sounds like a good holiday to me......... course X's family is from Miss. and they were ALL confederate........ hell they still are!!!

Bless your heart - ya just need to get in there an celebrate!!!! Now I gotta go google to see what the hell that celebration is......... cause if I remember right the Union guys actually whipped our ass!!!............ Oh well we got new folks waiting to whip our hiney now...............

Oh I'm so slow......... MEMORIAL........ duh........ got independence on the brain.......... bet X's family plot was busy in Vicksburg today!!!..........

[jeezeweeze]

FOFLMAO

your right

.... I have just been gone tooooooo long ....hell my daddy is from Mississippi.....Mama from Kentucky..... course being military , he wasn't typical rable raiser... what was I thinking..... I remember ...as a child ....my Grandaddy having a shoe box full of confederate money , wish I had it now... might be worth something to a collector....wasn't worth a tinkers damn then....hahahahah
I was told tho...seriously ... (kinda) that the fine folk in SC... told the Feds... If they were gonna have to celebrate MLK .....then they ( SC) were gonna celebrate fallen Confederate soldiers....but I looked online and several southern states celebrate ....only different times ..... alrightttttttty then...
Im breaking out the Kentucky whisky..... Makers Mark ..... yeeeeehaaaaa

[TexKan]

There ya go missy!!.......... don't be shy............. All's welcome that feels welcome........ don't make yo granpappy roll over in that ole plot now!!........ "tip up" girl!!............ YOU are such a mess...... god I miss you!!

[jeezeweeze]

I MISS YOUUUUUUUUUUUUU TOOOOOOOOOOOO

I get so homesick for DC and the crazyness sometime , can hardly stand it... but then I have to come back to reality and shake myself and tell myself...
Weezie..... those days are gone.... past is past .... you got your..... uh....you got your..... uh...uh......oh yeah......memories.......
LYLAS

[Outofdodge]

Originally Posted by jeezeweeze

told the Feds... If they were gonna have to celebrate MLK .....then they ( SC) were gonna celebrate fallen Confederate soldiers

Do you know if SC ever settled the state flag issue?

[jeezeweeze]

Im not sure....OOD.... but I will do a little research this AM... see what I can find....

[jeezeweeze]

Well .... SC ..... became PC

South Carolina's Confederate Flag Comes Down
Controversial confederate flag removed from the statehouse

by Borgna Brunner

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RELATED LINKS
Confederate Flag Controversy

Confederate Flags of the Old South

Confederate States of America

The Civil War

Flags Around the World


This article was posted on June 30, 2000.


IN 1962 the Confederate battle flag was placed on top of the South Carolina statehouse by vote of the all-white legislature. While other Southern states removed the flag from their statehouses, South Carolina refused to follow suit. This prompted the NAACP to organize a national economic boycott against South Carolina's $14 billion-a-year tourism industry, and since the summer of 1999, more than 100 conventions and business organizations have participated in the boycott. The boycott is considered one of the largest since the 1970s. The NAACP's president, Kweisi Mfume, said of the boycott, "this is a trigger you don't want to pull until all else has failed. In the case of South Carolina, after 38 years of negotiating even the NAACP has a limit to its patience."

Inflammatory remarks by state senator Arthur Ravenel made national headlines in Jan. 2000 when he defended the flying of the Southern Cross, referring to the NAACP as the "the National Association of Retarded People." He then apologized to "retarded people" for associating them with the NAACP. At the time of the the February Republican presidential primary, party differences on the issue were thrown in sharp relief: the Republican contenders declined to take a stand except to say that the issue was a state matter; the Democrats were outspokenly against the flag remaining.

On April 12, 2000, the South Carolina state senate finally passed a bill to remove the flag by a majority of 36-7. The bill specified that a more traditional version of the battle flag (square shaped as opposed to the rectangular flag now flying above the statehouse) would be flown in front of the Capitol next to a monument honoring fallen Confederate soldiers. The bill then went to the House, where it encountered some difficulty. But on May 18, 2000, after the bill was modified to ensure that the height of the flag's new pole would be 30 feet, it was passed by a majority of 66 to 43, and Governor Jim Hodges signed the bill five days later. On July 1, the flag was removed from the South Carolina statehouse.

The bill has not appeased everyone, however: the NAACP has not called off its boycott because they feel that the flag's new position on the Capitol lawn is still too prominent.

[TexKan]

While in Mississippi last year....... I actually read the hisotry of the Rebel flag. There is an awsome park in Vicksburg where some major conflicts were fought during the siege of Vicksburg during the fall of the south. Quite impressive - the park incompasses a large portion of Vicksburg - kinda like the Golden Gate does in SF........... the city grew around the battle field........... ANYWAY........ there were actually several (5 I think) actual Confederate Army flags..... the one so familiar to most is actually the "battle" flag. Not the flag they would be flyin in peace time. It is the flag that most confederates prefer....... it seems to do the majority of representation of that time. But is not the ONLY flag that was used during that time. They looked different and were of different sizes............. used for different purposes.

The continuation of the boycott and whinnining.......... (yes WHINNING) about trivial crap like "it's too prominent in it's position".......... is an excuse to NOT honor your word - and an effort to get the flag completely erradicated. NAACP forgets that there were plenty of BLACK slave traders, owners - etc. The discrimination at that time was toward "Africans"....... those blacks born in the US felt superior to "africans".......... and to top it all off.......... many blacks fought on the confederate side - some forced and some by choice -- Finally the war was NOT about slavery............. it was about division of the states................ it was about economy, way of life, - but the union army didn't give a rats ass about bettering the lives of "slaves"...... and as evidenced by present conditions........... don't know what the hell to do with brown "slaves" either................... I fly my rebel flag when I feel like it and it ain't got nuthin to do with slaves or NAACP............... hell there were plenty of endentured servants brought over from Europe...... they had to work 7 years to get thier freedom from the wealthy land owners that came to America..............so we all been slaves at some point and time. Ya do what ya need to do to achieve what ya want to achieve................