NAACP votes to lift 15-year boycott of South Carolina a day after removal of Confederate flag
Source: Dallas Morning News
COLUMBIA, S.C. The NAACP has passed a resolution lifting its 15-year economic boycott of South Carolina, a day after that state took down a Confederate battle flag flying near its Statehouse.
The civil rights group approved the measure Saturday at its national convention in Philadelphia to end the boycott of tourism and other economic activity. The boycott began in 2000 during debate over the flying of the Confederate flag atop South Carolinas Statehouse dome. The boycott continued after it was moved to a flagpole on Statehouse grounds.
The flags removal comes weeks after the shooting deaths of nine people in a historically black church in Charleston. Police have charged a man shown in pictures with the flag who they say was motivated by hate.
Flag supporters remain, saying it symbolizes Southern heritage.
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onehandle
(51,122 posts)...I will continue to power through South Carolina, with no stops, as long as they have that useless Governor.
brer cat
(24,579 posts)and places in South Carolina. Sorry that you let one person keep you from enjoying it.
I will be vacationing in Pauleys Island in a couple of weeks and I am looking forward to seeing that area for the first time.
heaven05
(18,124 posts)geez I bet there are still plenty of "Sundowner towns" in that state. He's right to get through that swamp of racist mentality as fast as he/she can.
brer cat
(24,579 posts)craigmatic
(4,510 posts)heaven05
(18,124 posts)that "patience and accommodation"" black people are always told to use by the privileged of this society. I don't agree with this move either. Way too early to show accommodation with racists.
bluedigger
(17,086 posts)In a similar spirit to the victims' families, they are showing that healing starts with forgiveness.