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Thread-Topic: Suggested confederate flag statement
From: <governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com>
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Subject: Suggested confederate flag statement
Date: Fri, 10 Jul 2015 05:15:31 -0400
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<SUBJECT>Suggested confederate flag statement</SUBJECT>
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with everything in the news regarding taking down the confederate flag may be best fought with a short speech/statement, maybe something along the lines of this:

On December 1, 1955, an African American woman in Alabama named Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man.  For this act of protest, Rosa Parks was arrested and fined for breaking the law.  Rosa Parks is credited to starting the civil rights movement, a fight that demands every American be treated equal.  On June 21, 1961, South Carolina first hoisted the confederate flag.  The confederate flag used, is the 2nd confederate navy jack flag, designed in 1863 by William T. Thomson, a newspaper editor &amp writer opperating out of Savannah Georga, which was historically made famous for being used by the Army of Northern Virginia under General Robert E. Lee.
  On July 2, 1964, President Lyndon B Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, which forbade discrimination based on a person's race, color, national origin, religious beliefs, or sex, the right to use public facilities, the right to get employment, and the right to vote.  Recently, it has been decided that South Carolina would take down the flag used to protest the civil rights movement.  Ask yourselves, is it morally right to support a flag that was hoisted over 50 years ago in protest of granting African Americans among other minorities equal rights long after it was signed into law? or do we as South Carolina citizens, as American citizens, take down the flag that was raised in protest of equal rights.



Side Notes:
SC's flag of sovereignty-sucession would be the most historically correct in reguards to SC's sucession from the union in 1860
The SC state flag best represents state heratage since it's been around since 1861.
the "Bonnie Blue" flag was briefly used before adopting the first (of 3) national flags at the beginning of the war
The first national flag is the best representation of the confederacy historically speaking
the modern "confederate flag" is most similar to the second Navy Jack flag (the flag used on confederate navy ships) with the shade of blue being the only differance
The "battle flag" was almost always square, and the most common practice would be using varying sizes to represent the type of unit flying it: 52" for infantry, 38" for artillary, &amp 32" for calvary 
The current confederate flag, often refered to as the "Confederate Rebel Flag" was adopted to share the same flag dimensions as the national and state flags.  This version of the flag was made popular for being flown in protest of the civil rights movement and in re-enactments (though miss-represented in re-enactments due to dimensions)

all info was found on wikipedia
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