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KT2000

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8. you have given reasons

Reply to craigmatic (Reply #1)

Sat Jun 20, 2015, 01:44 AM

Jun 2015

for not doing anything.
It is time to ostracize racism instead of pandering to it. There must be symbolic solutions and practical solutions.

Maybe the south will always deliver racist politicians but before the southern strategy we had Kennedy and Johnson. The country did better when we were called to be better. Racists resisted then and they will forever but we had a country that had hope, not the ritual of grieving and never doing anything about it.

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Nikki Haley CAN TAKE DOWN THE FLAG! [View all] LovingA2andMI Jun 2015 OP

It's funny how this issue went from gun control to the confederate flag. It's a bullshit compromise craigmatic Jun 2015 #1

But it may dissuade future generations... JaneyVee Jun 2015 #2

So it could hang on then.... LovingA2andMI Jun 2015 #3

I am black and I'll take any term I daqmn well please. craigmatic Jun 2015 #18

+1000 pangaia Jun 2015 #20

Wow! I think you're gonna lose dumbcat Jun 2015 #26

you have given reasons KT2000 Jun 2015 #8

No I've given reasons to get at the root of the problem. craigmatic Jun 2015 #17

South Carolina Code of Laws struggle4progress Jun 2015 #4

That does NOT stop her from taking down the Flag. LovingA2andMI Jun 2015 #6

I don't think she'll do that. The chances are better through the general assembly struggle4progress Jun 2015 #9

Fair Point! LovingA2andMI Jun 2015 #11

This is absurd. Igel Jun 2015 #19

Thanks, Igel SCantiGOP Jun 2015 #21

Of course she can, if she's willing to face the anger from the racist, gun fanciers who elected her. Hoyt Jun 2015 #5

Exactly!!! LovingA2andMI Jun 2015 #7

K&R smirkymonkey Jun 2015 #10

but she will probably not get re-elected again JI7 Jun 2015 #12

Another Fair Point! LovingA2andMI Jun 2015 #13

not if she wants to run for some other office JI7 Jun 2015 #14

Why Not? LovingA2andMI Jun 2015 #15

she is a coward JI7 Jun 2015 #16

See the posts above SCantiGOP Jun 2015 #23

She WON'T get re-elected SCantiGOP Jun 2015 #22

she could run for other office JI7 Jun 2015 #24

She is running for other office SCantiGOP Jun 2015 #25

Of course she could. If the state were not so racist, there would be no repercussions. Hoyt Jun 2015 #27

she could also take down the American flag SCantiGOP Jun 2015 #28

Sorry, if the state residents were not a bunch of racist yahoos, she could take the flag down and be Hoyt Jun 2015 #29

I really don't want to argue this SCantiGOP Jun 2015 #30

No Clyburn is not a racist, Graham and the rest damn sure are. I think the majority of the state Hoyt Jun 2015 #31

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