x-sender: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com x-receiver: governor.haley@sc.lmhostediq.com Received: from mail pickup service by IQ12 with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:46:51 -0400 thread-index: AdCyUIYsmHbDK8ZnSmS1R2MPrdBVXQ== Thread-Topic: Confederate flag From: To: Subject: Confederate flag Date: Mon, 29 Jun 2015 05:46:51 -0400 Message-ID: <57B5B4530BD843098EF9CF0354097F38@IQ12> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Microsoft CDO for Windows 2000 Content-Class: urn:content-classes:message Importance: normal Priority: normal X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.1.7601.17609 X-OriginalArrivalTime: 29 Jun 2015 09:46:51.0258 (UTC) FILETIME=[863655A0:01D0B250] CUSTOM Mr Jim Landrum Landrum 212 English Walnut Dr Trussville AL 35173 landrumjm@gmail.com ETHI Confederate flag The confederate flag once flew over a racist slave holding region of which South Carolina was a part. It still flies over government property in your state. In light of what happened last week in Charleston I think you should remove it from where it flies. It is a stain on your state and your administration. I lived in Selma, Alabama from 1958 to 1963. My family and I were run out of Selma by the KKK because I stood up for the rights of Black people. When those KKK members came to our back door and threatened us with violence they had the stars and bars flag with them. In my view that flag stands for racist hatred. Take it down and burn it. In the wake of Germany's defeat in 1945 the Nazi flag was banned because of what it stood for. After the war Germany was deNazified. Why do people in your state want to cling to the memory of a time during which cruel, vicious slavery was institutionalized? That memory should be erased from South Carolina just as Nazism was expunged from post war Germany.