And the S.C. state legislature has been so in love with that flag that it wasn’t even allowed to be flown at half-mast when the nine were murdered at Emanuel A.M.E. (including a member of said legislature). Then again, why would it? The flag of a racist cause—and yes, the Confederacy, not to be confused with generic southern culture, was a racist cause—would of course fly proud when a white supremacist commits a massacre at a church known as a stalwart of the black community in South Carolina.
Extra fact: the Confederate flag wasn’t brought back after the Civil War to fly over state grounds until 1961, as a rebuke to the Civil Rights movement and the struggle for racial desegregation.
And the S.C. state legislature has been so in love with that flag that it wasn’t even allowed to be flown at half-mast when the nine were murdered at Emanuel A.M.E. (including a member of said legislature). Then again, why would it? The flag of a racist cause—and yes, the Confederacy, not to be confused with generic southern culture, was a racist cause—would of course fly proud when a white supremacist commits a massacre at a church known as a stalwart of the black community in South Carolina.
Extra fact: the Confederate flag wasn’t brought back after the Civil War to fly over state grounds until 1961, as a rebuke to the Civil Rights movement and the struggle for racial desegregation.