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Good job, Jenny Horne ... :congrats:



South Carolina House approves bill removing Confederate flag


COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House approved a bill removing the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds, a stunning reversal in a state that was the first to leave the Union in 1860 and raised the flag again at its Statehouse more than 50 years ago to protest the civil rights movement ...






https://www.yahoo.com/news/confederate-flags-fate-hands-south-carolina-house-083453016.html#

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In the Spirit of, Its about Time,


Good job, Jenny Horne ... :congrats:



South Carolina House approves bill removing Confederate flag


COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) — The South Carolina House approved a bill removing the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds, a stunning reversal in a state that was the first to leave the Union in 1860 and raised the flag again at its Statehouse more than 50 years ago to protest the civil rights movement ...






https://www.yahoo.com/news/confederate-flags-fate-hands-south-carolina-house-083453016.html#

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One step of many to be made... Yes, it's about time but there still remains so much to do.....
 
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The Latest: South Carolina governor says 'it is a new day'



Gov. Nikki Haley says "it is a new day in South Carolina, a day we can all be proud of" after the state House of Representatives approved a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds.

Haley said in a statement early Thursday that the measure "truly brings us all together as we continue to heal, as one people and one state." ...


https://www.yahoo.com/news/latest-south-carolina-house-remembers-church-victims-155457190.html

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Confederate flag will be removed Friday in US state


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https://www.yahoo.com/news/confederate-flags-days-numbered-south-carolina-071446714--politics.html

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Removing the flag is good, but solid honest history education is still lacking.

Until there is honest education regarding American history in public schools, this issue will always be a thorn in the side of this country as a whole.

In America as in most European nations with a slavery past there is a tendency to gloss over shameful parts of history or ignoring it altogether.

The history of the confederate flag articulated by Douglas Baldwin: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/29/doug-baldwin-confederate-flag_n_7687208.html
 
Removing the flag is good, but solid honest history education is still lacking.

Until there is honest education regarding American history in public schools, this issue will always be a thorn in the side of this country as a whole.

In America as in most European nations with a slavery past there is a tendency to gloss over shameful parts of history or ignoring it altogether.

The history of the confederate flag articulated by Douglas Baldwin:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/06/29/doug-baldwin-confederate-flag_n_7687208.html


Doug was good, thanks for sharing.

As far as historical education for our schools, and for the public in general; I couldn't agree with you more. We learn about the flag from the 1865 accounts of the one that carried it in battle, Gen. Robert E. Lee:



Letter | Confederate hero General Lee said furl the flag. That’s beginning to happen again.


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... Riding “Traveller,” Lee was some miles from Lexington when an ex-Confederate stepped from his fenced yard to pay his respects to the general. At the corner of the fence a weathered battle flag drooped from a pole. The man seemed forlorn. He asked Lee what they were supposed to do in the wake of such devastation.

Lee looked at the flag and said: “First we take down that flag.” Then he turned Traveller toward Lexington and rode on.

In the years he was president of Washington College (which I learned only recently from Jonathan Horn's article entitled, “Even Lee Wanted the Flag Gone”), Lee directed that no Confederate flag or monument be displayed lest, as Lee said, the “sores of war” be kept open.


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Read more here: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/article26055814.html#storylink=cpy

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