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| The South Carolina Capitol with Conferederate Flag. | The Abraham Lincoln Memorial in Washingto D.C |
The Atlantic Coast Conference of Baseball, yesterday, stated it wanted to move three of its future baseball tournaments out of South Carolina in protest of the Confederate Flag which has stood at the State Capitol for ten years.
According to First Coast News, opponents of the flag say it's a symbol of racism and hatred, while flag supporters say it honors heritage through traditional American principles of State Sovereignty.
The belief that the Confederacy stands for hate comes from the lessons of the Civil War, with Abraham Lincoln leading the way to end slavery. In fact, the Lincoln Memorial in D.C. pays tribute to the former President by stating "For whom he saved the Union" during the Civil War when the southern states refused to unionize.
Read the rest of the Atlantic Coast Conference article here.
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It's absolutely surreal. It seems that we become more Orwellian every day.
That's ridiculous. The flag is most definitely not a symbol of slavery.
South Carolina was the last hold-out to sign the Constitution and only agreed to join the Union on the condition that the Constitution wouldn't abolish slavery... even though it was obvious to everyone that using another man's freedom as a bargaining chip for your own independence from tyranny was a blatant attack on reason and humanity.
Come on South Carolina. In the very least, it looks bad, given your history on the slavery issue.
...And Lincoln was a Tyrant; a violator of civil liberties and common decency to fellow citizens. He enjoyed conquering and ruling over men despite their objections to unity (or their objections to fight against the South) no less than the southern slave masters enjoyed plowing the cotton fields with the forced labor of another race.