Re: Letters to Haley Reveal a lot of hatred directed at SC

The mistake the South made was to allow the KKK to adopt the Confederate battle flag as it's symbol.

That's when the flag changed from being a symbol of regional pride to a symbol of racial hatred.

Southerners, truly proud of their heritage should have stepped up and taken the flag back from them. That didn't happen, they allowed it to be desecrated and adopted by a brain dead, hate filled, mindless group of thugs.

One of the emails sent to Haley: "“I am a Caucasian daughter of a Klansman!” a woman from Louisiana wrote. “I KNOW what that flag means to white supremacists and to be honest, so do you. Stop the charade. Take it down NOW.”

It needed to be taken down, not for what it stood for 150 years ago but for what it has been allowed to be a symbol of in modern times... the noxious idea that whites are superior to all ther races. Stupid and self-delusional.

God Bless ALL of America.

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Jul 9, 2016, 4:55 PM

I understand what your saying but I disagree only in this sense. I very easily understand "cultural pride". I'm proud of the values that the unique culture and heritage of SC holds and taught me. I'm proud to be an American for the same reason. I am not, however, proud to be Caucasian. I see no point in it. It isn't something that I participated in nor is it something that I chose to adopt for myself. To me it's a distinction without a value, much like being proud that one has brown eyes or is 6 feet tall.

Clearly some Americans of Italian, Irish, English descent, etc, tend to be proud of the distinctiveness associated with their ancestry as a cultural identity. However, I have never known anyone who was proud of being a Caucasian solely because they were Caucasian. That is, other than within a comparative context to other races. One could just as easily say that people with blonde hair are better or substantially different from people with brown hair. It is a distinction without a real difference. And I certainly have never met or heard of anyone who when comparing their race to others did so in an inferior way. The comparison, in my view, is baseless and without any merit. Race is more of a coincidence rather than a value described by character or deed. For example, the English didn't dominate the world for 3 centuries because they were Caucasian. Race had nothing to do with it. Wealth, ingenuity and great ship building materials made it happen.

Now, having said all of that, I respect your opinion on race. But the core of what I was addressing was the abrogation of the Confederate Battle Flag by white supremacist groups like the KKK. In the vast majority of eyes that flag, rightly or wrongly reflected racial hatred primarily and fundamentally.

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Letters to Haley Reveal a lot of hatred directed at SC

Were any of the PDFs Clemson related?

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