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September 12, 2009

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 [...]

August 3, 2009

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 [...]

July 24, 2009

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 [...]

July 17, 2009

Legislature and NAACP Must Act So That SC Can Host NCAA Tournaments

The NCAA is not backing down, and our state is losing money. The NCAA says that South Carolina is an inhospitable environment, neither worthy nor capable of hosting tournaments.
Why does the NCAA think that about our state?
Because we cannot solve the simple issue of what flag to fly out in front of our State House. [...]