NAACP renews call for boycottBy Dave Munday (Contact)
The Post and Courier
Monday, July 14, 2008
The NAACP is renewing its call to boycott South Carolina for flying the Confederate battle flag outside the Statehouse. Leaders speaking at the group's national convention in Cincinnati Monday said plans are in the works to strengthen the boycott, The Associated Press reported. Dot Scott, president of the NAACP's Charleston chapter, said she has been getting calls asking if the boycott was still in effect and passing on the messages to national headquarters. She praised the decision to revive the fight to move the flag. "Symbols are very important," Scott said. "It denotes a mindset. To many it represents ugly and mean things. Every now and then we need to be reminded … that bigotry is alive and well. The flag (stands for) the ugliness we're still experiencing. I am in absolute support that the flag needs to go." Randy Burbage, South Carolina division commander of Sons of Confederate Veterans, said he was not surprised by the NAACP's action but does not agree with it. "It's a symbol of pride to me, men that wouldn't give up, fighting for freedom in their own right," Burbage said. "Our state was being invaded. They were trying to save their homes, not preserve slavery. They want me to respect their heritage, and yet they won't respect mine." Getting lawmakers to agree even to reconsider the flag debate would be next to impossible, said Sen. Robert Ford, D-Charleston, who joined Republican Sen. Glenn McConnell of Charleston to move the flag where it is. A two-thirds majority in both the House and Senate would be needed to bring the issue up, and that's not likely, he said. Read more in tomorrow's editions of The Post and Courier. |
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Posted by NativeSC on July 14, 2008 at 8:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Let's get this thing rolling this time and really make it work. The last "boycott" was all talk, no action. I remember the NAACP picketing The Heritage golf tournament one year, three guys with a cooler sitting under a tree at the turn off from Beaufort to Hilton Head. Very impactful. Really teach us a lesson this time and pull Black Bike Week. Dot Scott, the joke that she is, should worry more about the underlying reasons why the last boycott failed than trying to stage another one that will go no where.
Posted by LadyTarHeel on July 14, 2008 at 8:16 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Oh goodness. Here goes the NAACP again! The flag doesn't bother me. Sure, it can be seen as a symbol of oppression; however, it is the source of pride for many South Carolinians and southerners alike. I don't think the flag should be flown over the state house, but boycotting the state of South Carolina isn't really going to change anything. The logistics don't make sense. Are all the black people going to move out of the state for the duration? Does she want us not to buy anything within the state? Can some one please explain this to me. Maybe I'm just not up to speed.
Posted by lowcountrylover on July 14, 2008 at 9:06 p.m. (Suggest removal)
LOL. DOT DIDNT GET ENOUGH PLAY WITH COUSIN ARTHUR SO NOW SHE HAS TO RE-INVENT THE BOYCOTT. WHAT A WASTE OF OXYGEN!!!!
Posted by seneca264 on July 14, 2008 at 9:07 p.m. (Suggest removal)
God help us.....it is time to move on. It is time for the blacks to stop being racist.
Posted by CedarPosts on July 14, 2008 at 9:19 p.m. (Suggest removal)
I've always been a fan of the battle flag.
But the time has come to accept that while the flag stands for heritage to educated people and has never stood for hate, some hate groups have hijacked the flag for their own use.
Much like the rainbow has been hijacked by gay and lesbian groups, the battle flag has fallen into the wrong hands.
Son's of Confederate Veterans need to accept this fact, and change direction. I suggest they lobby congress to give the 1st stainless aka the "stars and bars" protection as the official flag of the South and give the SCV the right to trademark the flag and thereby the right to legally pursue anyone in the courts, who uses the trademark in an unfit manner.
More about the battle flag at: http://cedarposts.blogspot.com/2008/01/c...
Posted by ccfirefighterchick on July 14, 2008 at 9:29 p.m. (Suggest removal)
The last boycott didn't work, so why do they think another will? Get over it! If I have to have black history shoved down my throat every year and I have to accept thier history and heritage, why can't they accept my history and heritage? I had family fight in the Civil War. They were not slave-owners. They were not fighting for the right to keep slaves. They were fighting for states rights. They were fighting to keep their freedoms. The state of SC was being attacked, so they were fighting for their lives.
They took the flag off of the statehouse, now shut-up about it!
Posted by summerville_guy on July 14, 2008 at 10:56 p.m. (Suggest removal)
Dot Scott, I support your boycott as long as you take it to the extreme and move away from South Carolina. Far, far away. And take your bigoted racist organization with you.
Posted by geekguy2008 on July 15, 2008 at 12:07 a.m. (Suggest removal)
Dot Scott, please rally your people to not only boycott SC, but move the f--- out! SC will be alot better off all the way arond if all the unhappy (insert racial epithet here)would leave.