Just heard the news -- the State of South Carolina has just decided to remove the Confederate battle flag from its statehouse. (Or more accurately, the Governor says it should come down, and wants the legislature to "debate" it and agree with her to take it down, and soon. I assume it will happen.)
Gutsy move, Palmetto bugs! What courage! Lost the Civil War, lost the slave economy, lost the Jim Crow segregation wars, and lost the respect of all intelligent people, but for 15 long decades, you somehow just couldn't lose that hateful, divisive banner. You kept telling yourselves it was a symbol of southern pride and heritage, of states' rights. Sure it was.
Pretty damn sad it took a murderous act of racial terrorism to finally wake up the bozos of official South Carolina, after a mere 150 year slumber.
Mississippi, it's your turn.
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