Confederate flag taken down at Fort Sumter

[nightflight]

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The historic site where the first shots of the Civil War were fired is no longer flying versions of the Confederate flag above it.

The U.S. National Park Service ordered all flags except the U.S. flag to be taken down at the Fort Sumter National Monument in Charleston Harbor.

The banners that were removed are neither the traditional Confederate flag that's most typically displayed by individuals nor the battle flag version that has been flying on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse in Columbia. Instead, the flags taken down were the less frequently seen national banners of the Confederacy.

Its an historical site! Good grief! Are they trying to change history?

 

[NightHawkeye]

Are they trying to change history?

Of course, comrade.

"Barack knows that we are going to have to make sacrifices; we are going to have to change our conversation; we're going to have to change our traditions, our history; we're going to have to move into a different place as a nation." -Michelle Obama

Rewriting Our History, Changing Our Traditions | Fox News​

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

Its an historical site! Good grief! Are they trying to change history?

Did they remove the flags from the museum on the inside?

 

[nightflight]

Did they remove the flags from the museum on the inside?

Isn't the whole place a museum? I know its not a working fort.

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

Isn't the whole place a museum? I know its not a working fort.

Other than atmosphere what does a flying flag prove? if they took it completely out of the museum so people cannot learn and history by seeing it I would be worried.

 

[nightflight]

Other than atmosphere what does a flying flag prove? if they took it completely out of the museum so people cannot learn and history by seeing it I would be worried.

I don't think the point is to "prove" anything. If the flag flew over the fort in history, and it is an historical site, then the flag flying there is appropriate.

 

[rambot]

It IS important that black people remember their subjugation. If flying a flag helps them do that, then I don't see why the flag should be taken down.

 

[NightHawkeye]

It IS important that black people remember their subjugation.

That doesn't seem to be a problem. The issue seems to be letting go ... and moving on.

 

[stamperben]

That doesn't seem to be a problem. The issue seems to be letting go ... and moving on.

Except that it's not up to the victims of racism to let go and move on...
There's the problem.

 

[rambot]

That doesn't seem to be a problem. The issue seems to be letting go ... and moving on.

Yeah. That's not actually how healing works. Glad I feel I have a better understanding of where you are coming from now.

 

[ChristsSoldier115]

I don't think the point is to "prove" anything. If the flag flew over the fort in history, and it is an historical site, then the flag flying there is appropriate.

Good point. But I believe the US flag over it before the Confederate's flag didn't it?

 

[pakicetus]

That doesn't seem to be a problem. The issue seems to be letting go ... and moving on.

Not until they have equality.

 

[JustOneWay]

Its an historical site! Good grief! Are they trying to change history?

Taking down a flag has no bearing on the past. So, no they are not trying to change history.

However, I would consider the fort a museum, so they should leave it.

 

[JustOneWay]

That doesn't seem to be a problem. The issue seems to be letting go ... and moving on.

They are trying to move on....

Then a racist starts killing them in a church, and the KKK just won't go away.

so hard to move on with such painful reminders.

 

[rambot]

I wonder why they don't fly Nazi flags outside of concentration camps that they've turned into museums? There MUST be a reason; I wonder what it is?

 

[nightflight]

They are trying to move on....

Then a racist starts killing them in a church, and the KKK just won't go away.

so hard to move on with such painful reminders.

A racist named Omar Thornton killed 8 white people in 2010. Yawn, right?

 

[nightflight]

I wonder why they don't fly Nazi flags outside of concentration camps that they've turned into museums? There MUST be a reason; I wonder what it is?

I guess because a fort is not a concentration camp.

 

[Armoured]

Does seem like a kneejerk PC response. Kinda hard to see it another way.

Historical battlefields flying the flag of both belligerents after hostilities cease is usually taken as a sign of goodwill, respect, and fellowship.

Gallipoli

 

[nightflight]

Does seem like a kneejerk PC response. Kinda hard to see it another way.

Historical battlefields flying the flag of both belligerents after hostilities cease is usually taken as a sign of goodwill, respect, and fellowship.

Gallipoli

Agreed.

Is that race car gif real?? That doesn't look possible.

 

[JustOneWay]

A racist named Omar Thornton killed 8 white people in 2010. Yawn, right?

Not only did you try to minimize these deaths, and dismiss the racism from this boy and his clear confession that it was racially motivated, but you finished off by being wrong about Omar Thornton.

A trifecta failure for you. Well done.