Christmas at the State House 2009

I like having the Christmas tree in front of the State House, at the most prominent place for it.
Do you notice that the Christmas tree is closer to the Confederate Soldier Monument than the Confederate flag is?
Something is very wrong with the design of the flag/monument combo; they’re not really a pair; there’s no proper [...]

What’s on the Table and the Five Whys

What’s on the table is flying our state flag in place of the Confederate flag year-round and flying the Confederate flag on Confederate Memorial Day. This proposal is outstanding. Ask your state representatives, your state senators, and your gubernatorial candidates whether or not they support this proposal (The Fly Our State Flag Bill: H.3588).
If our [...]

Thank You NAACP

Thank you, NAACP, for 100 years of activism and for carrying on the current fight against our state legislature on the Confederate flag issue.
Thank you Dr. Lonnie Randolph, Dwight James, Andrea Glover, Brenda Bines, John Matthews, and Rev. Joseph A. Darby.
Other groups should join the NAACP in standing up to our state legislature on this [...]

Advocating for a Bill to Solve SC’s Confederate Flag Issue

I’m advocating for a bill, H-3588, that will solve the problem that was left unsolved with the so-called Confederate flag compromise of 2000. As I wrote in a recent letter to the editor, “The bill calls for the state to fly the Confederate flag on Confederate Memorial Day to honor the Confederate soldiers and [...]