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SC Senate votes 37-3 to remove the CBF
Posted: Mon Jul 06, 2015 2:27 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
to the Confederate relic room
http://www.thestate.com/news/politics-g ... 97686.html
I would expect the House to follow
Re: SC Senate votes 37-3 to remove the CBF
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 11:55 am
by jarnon
The SC House also voted to remove the flag. (They took several votes; the margin on one of them was 93 to 27.) Gov. Haley is expected to sign the bill at 4 p.m., and the flag will be removed at 10 a.m. Friday. It will be put in the aptly named Confederate Relic Room.
Re: SC Senate votes 37-3 to remove the CBF
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:31 pm
by elwoodblues
That flag was put there in the 1960s as a backlash against the civil rights movement. It is not there for "heritage," and if you wanted to celebrate your heritage why would you want to display the worst part of it? I have yet to hear a non-racist argument for displaying that flag.
Re: SC Senate votes 37-3 to remove the CBF
Posted: Thu Jul 09, 2015 2:50 pm
by Bob Juch
The Fourteenth Amendment was ratified this day in 1868. South Carolina was the last state to vote.
Re: SC Senate votes 37-3 to remove the CBF
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 5:40 am
by themanintheseersuckersuit
What do the SC Legislatures of 1868 and 2015 have in common?
Re: SC Senate votes 37-3 to remove the CBF
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 6:09 am
by Vandal
themanintheseersuckersuit wrote:What do the SC Legislatures of 1868 and 2015 have in common?
Strom Thurmond?
Wait, he didn't make it to 2015. Never mind.
Re: SC Senate votes 37-3 to remove the CBF
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 11:49 am
by BackInTex
elwoodblues wrote:I have yet to hear a non-racist argument for displaying that flag.
I haven't heard a non-racist argument for removing it.
Re: SC Senate votes 37-3 to remove the CBF
Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2015 2:18 pm
by themanintheseersuckersuit
http://thefederalist.com/2015/07/10/no- ... -loophole/
WASHINGTON — The man accused of killing nine people in an historically black South Carolina church last month should not have been able to buy a gun, the F.B.I. said Friday in what was the latest acknowledgment of flaws in the national background check system.
A loophole in the check system allowed the man, Dylann Roof, to buy the .45-caliber handgun despite his having previously admitted to drug possession, the bureau said. Those conducting the background check did not have access to that police report.
Uh, that’s neither a “loophole” nor a “flaw[] in the national background check system.” It’s human error, namely a failure to enter data into the system.