Confederate flag removal makes other changes in South Carolina seem less impossible

Issac Bailey
JULY 18, 2015

... I understand that though the flag is gone, greeting me at the Gervais Street entrance to the State House is a large monument to a man who bragged about lynching black people for political power and an even larger monument to Confederate soldiers.

I understand that the “Corridor of Shame” schools, which have failed too many minority residents (and more than a few poor white ones) for decades, haven’t been fixed.

I know that it makes little sense that it took nine black people being gunned down in a church before legislators in Columbia had the courage to do the obviously right thing, which should temper any claims of their vote being heroic.

I get that there’s still too much child poverty in South Carolina, that we must not lose sight of the need for progress on those issues just because the flag isn’t flying ...

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