Mornin Chomsky. :2wave: It has moved beyond that. Amazon, Google, Wal-Mart.....also Alabama has ordered them down from other Memorials. What a distraction huh? Yesterday.....Chicago had 18 shootings. A few of them were race related between some Hispanics and some Blacks. Some might say it was over turf. Even though those boundaries never seem to change despite the decade passing.
Elsewhere around the nation, leaders were already demoting the historic but divisive symbol. By the order of Alabama Gov. Robert Bentley on Wednesday, four Confederate banners were being taken down from a large monument to secessionist soldiers outside that state's capitol.
Politicians around the nation then joined calls for removing historic but divisive Civil War-era symbols from places of honor, from state flags to license plates to statues and place names. Many said change is imperative after the white man accused of shooting of nine black churchgoers posed with the flag.
Even the Citadel, South Carolina influential military college, whose cadets fired the first shots of the Civil War, voted in favor of moving its Confederate Naval Jack flag from its prominent place inside its main chapel to a more "appropriate" campus location. Businesses also moved quickly: Wal-Mart, e-Bay, Amazon, Target and Sears were among those removing Confederate merchandise from stores and online sites, and at least three major flag makers said they will no longer manufacture the Confederate flag.....snip~
As SC honors church victims, Alabama lowers its flags