This is all about the left and Democrats trying to separate us from being American through division politics. Rich vs poor, white vs black, male vs female, multiculturalism, etc. Anything to divide us to cause us too fight and to pick up votes.
Knowledgeable vs ignorant?
So, it would be useful if your "opinion" was based in realities vs your own prejudice. Rather than be a left/democrat vs a right/GOP situation, it reality it's a bipartisan movement to address the past and make sure that the messages being sent by local, city and state governments does not unfairly denigrate any particular group.
It was Republican Governor Nikki Haley who asked the South Carolina legislature to take up the issue of removing the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s statehouse grounds. The flag was removed and placed in a museum for storage. The debate and decision to remove the flag came after the mass shooting of nine worshipers at a historic black church in Charleston.
So, it seems it's not just the left and Democrats dealing with the issue, huh?
Guess what southern Senator supported removing the statue of Jefferson Davis from the Kentucky statehouse? Would you consider Senator Mitch McConnell to be on the left? Last I heard he was a Republican, right?
Following a massacre at a black church in Charleston, South Carolina, a bipartisan mix of officials across the country is calling for the removal of Confederate flags and other symbols of the Confederacy from public places.
Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley (R) ordered the immediate removal of four different Confederate banners, including the battle flag, from an 88 -foot-tall memorial that stands at the Capitol entrance nearest the governor's office. Jefferson Davis, the lone president of the Confederacy, is said to have laid the cornerstone at a ceremony in 1886.
Leaders of the Republican-controlled state are divided on whether to alter the Mississippi flag, a corner of which is made up of the Confederate battle flag. U.S. Sen. Roger Wicker (R) joined state House Speaker Philip Gunn (R) on Wednesday in saying the emblem is offensive and must be removed.
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan's press secretary says the Republican leader opposes the use of the Confederate flag on the state's license plates.
A spokesman for North Carolina Gov. Pat McCrory says the Republican plans to ask the General Assembly to pass a law that would discontinue the use of the Confederate flag on specialty license plates for the Confederate Veterans. Like those in other states, the plate features the group's logo, which has the flag.
Both Democratic and Republican lawmakers from Tennessee called for a bust of Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general and an early leader in the Ku Klux Klan, to be removed from an alcove outside the Senate chambers at the Statehouse. The bust, inscribed with the words "Confederate States Army," has been at the Capitol for decades.
In Texas, the Supreme Court ruled last week that the state was within its rights to refuse to issue personalized license plates showing the Confederate flag. The court rejected a free-speech challenge. The Sons of Confederate Veterans had sought a Texas plate bearing its logo with the battle flag.
Are you getting the drift here? This ain't the left wing socialist democrats trying to force things down the fine, upstanding Alt Right, Neo-Nazi, KKK White Supremacists' throats.
