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It doesn’t matter how many times you tell the average Confederate flag-waver that, yes, the Civil War was about slavery — specifically the state’s right to own slaves — because leaders of South Carolina said as much in their own articles of secession back in 1860, which mentioned slavery no fewer than 18 times. It doesn’t matter how delicately you explain that this fact makes the flag inherently offensive to African Americans, because it represents a time when South Carolina was willing to go to war just to retain the right own people as property. It also doesn’t matter how fervently you insist that after the war, the flag was consistently used as a rallying cry for racists, with Klan members, vigilantes, and segregationists waving it proudly as the they beat, terrorized, and murdered black people across the state — just like Roof allegedly did on Wednesday evening.

And it definitely doesn’t matter how desperately you remind them that the flag didn’t even go up over the State House until 1961 — coinciding with both the centennial anniversary of the war and the early stages of the African American Civil rights movement — where celebratory ceremonies were racially segregated, and where famous Dixiecrat/segregationist/South Carolina Senator Strom Thurmond told the all-white crowd that nowhere in the U.S. Constitution “does it hint a purpose to insure equality of man or things.”

How The Charleston Shooting Is Linked To The Confederate Flag, According To A South Carolinian
by Jack Jenkins Posted on June 19, 2015 at 9:32 am

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