Yup, back to FLAGS again!
"Little local echo for new boycott of S.C. flag; NAACP renews call at national convention" by Jeffrey Collins, Associated Press | July 19, 2008
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The NAACP at its national convention this week renewed its call for an economic boycott of South Carolina. Since 1999, the civil rights organization has encouraged family reunions, sporting events, and entertainers to stay away from the state and officials say their new plan entails asking actors and movie studios to shun the state's efforts to lure filmmakers.
But in this normally laid-back state, where a rare outbreak of protests and marches helped force the flag from its prominent perch in 2000, there appears to be little popular support for another push.
Some lawmakers who engineered the move to the current spot say they're satisfied. Some say the banner, passed by 28,000 drivers each day, has faded into the background. And even those who aren't pleased say there's neither the political will nor the public outcry to make another switch.
Nearly 50,000 people marched on the capitol. Former governors, religious leaders, and the football coaches of Clemson and the University of South Carolina joined a 110-mile march from Charleston to Columbia. Tennis star Serena Williams made headlines when she pulled out of a tournament.
When the flag was moved, much of the steam went out of the protests. Eight years later, Williams is back playing tennis in the state, winning the Family Circle Cup in Charleston in 2008.
Funny how this gets MSM print while antiwar protests are ignored (there was one again yesterday downtown).
Even the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which countered the protests of 2000 with their own demonstrations in support of the banner, likes the way things are."
So then WHY is this a story, other than to STIR UP SHIT?
