Heritage group has no reply to NAACP

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COLUMBIA --- The Sons of Confederate Veterans says it will continue to fight any attacks on the Confederate flag in South Carolina.

But Randy Burbage, the leader of the South Carolina chapter of the organization, said Wednesday it has made no specific plans to respond to the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People's new push to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds.

Mr. Burbage said another member of the organization was giving his opinion when he said the group was considering putting up large flagpoles with Confederate flags along South Carolina interstates in response to the NAACP.

Earlier Wednesday, Don Gordon, who identified himself as a spokesman for the group, said it was negotiating with a landowner to put a large flag atop a pole along a Midlands interstate highway.

South Carolina NAACP President Lonnie Randolph said he wouldn't mind such an effort and encouraged the group to put up the flags so everyone would know where its members stand.

The NAACP announced at its convention this week a renewed boycott and effort to bring down the Confederate flag.

REGION LEADER


DURHAM, N.C. --- The president of the North Carolina NAACP has landed a spot on the organization's national board to represent seven states in the South -- including South Carolina and Georgia.


The civil rights organization said Wednesday that the Rev. William J. Barber II won the three-person election to represent a region that also includes Alabama, Florida, Tennessee, North Carolina and Mississippi.


-- Associated Press

Comments

christian134

Rising or run away food and fuel prices, homes being foreclosed on, floods, fires, and earthquakes as well as tornadoes and these people are fighting over the Confederate flag flying...NAACP just crawl back into your disgusting racist hole, throw the dirt over your heads and leave all of us alone...Your attempts to blackmail a state as well as continued blackmail of an entire nation is more than any intelligent person should have to take.. I, for one, have been around a long time and have witnessed your antics destroy people as well as their livelihoods because your hatred of the white race...All you have succeeded in creating is a greater gulf between the races...Now you believe that with this Obama character in the picture, who has presented himself as some sort of home grown messiah, your racist rantings will be given more power to harass and create more contention....Your wrong..There are a great many people who are not going to sit still for your disgusting displays of hate and potential outbreaks of violence.... I just love it when this organization has so-called "rev.'s" as leaders of their radical racist rantings....Most hypocritical don't you think...

digmick

Chistaian, you sell so Christ-like.

pofwe

Jessie Jackson knows and says what he and his ilk are, ______ .

christian134

You people have a deep seated problem with my name...It is almost like an obsession which is weird to say the least...Just because I say I am Christian does not mean I am going to hush up and never voice my opinion...The very idea that you would suggest a thing like that reeks of discrimination...

js_ee

christian, I'll admit that the leaders of the NAACP should do a better job picking their battles, but the only hatred I see is your deep rooted hatred towards the NAACP and anyone who fights for the rights of any other race than yours. Without the NAACP and other black leaders, not necessarily Revs. Jackson or Sharpton, we'd all be your servants. Just so you know Jackson and Sharpton are not the voices of all black people. Try leaving the small corner of GA and this chat room and see how the rest of the country thinks sometimes...life doesn't stop with the Augusta Chronicle.

js_ee

pofwe...I've read the report, but I don't want to assume anything, so please let everyone else know exactly what we are. While you're at it, please list your legal name so that there is no confusion when you are out in the community.

christian134

Oh please is ee...You really believe that stuff you are hawking don't you?...wow...Believe me friend at my age I have seen more than most so don't allow my living here taint your perception of my experiences...By the way ya'll have a real love of the word "hate" don't you..You seem to "hate" anyone who disagrees with you or has an opinion differing from yours...Shame on you...:-)

js_ee

Christian, you spewed the word 'hate' all throughout your post...I just responded. Why wouldn't I believe what I typed. Except for my perception of you, what I said was fact, not opinion. I hate no one and I too think the hatred of anything or anyone is wrong. I disagree with you, but I don't hate you. I just get tired of having to defend myself and my beliefs just because of people like you...I guess I shouldn't try, b/c I guess 'at your age', you'll never change the way you see black people.

christian134

No I don't...Friend if you will read what I have stated so many times would be you and others are fond of saying all whites are haters...I normally don't hate anyone but I despise people who continually turn something back around and refer to anyone white who disagrees with blacks as haters...

christian134

Oh I do hate spiders and snakes and I hate vermin of all kind.....

js_ee

You have NEVER seen in any of my postings that all whites are 'haters', in fact I believe anyone who thinks that is as ignorant as anyone who thinks all blacks hate whites. What I have seen in the postings is your continued accusations and stereotyping. Notice you said, you "normally" don't hate anyone...that means you do at times right?? Again, I know you want change your mind and will continue to see me as racist, so I'll just let that be. I just pray that someday, you'll come to realize that the inert few don't represent the vast majority of black americans.

christian134

Good message is ee and your right the point is we can both agree to disagree...

RichmondCountyResident1

Powfe, you're nothing but lowlife trailer trash. I would say what you and your ilk are, but it would be blocked out. I bet a coward like you wouldn't say such things in the presence of blacks.

Chuchi

Name-calling is counterproductive, not to mention childish. Adults are supposed to be above such behavior. Mature adults, that is. I, for one, would like to know what the NAACP does besides protest archaic flag displays over state-owned buildings, because the news media never seems to pay any attention to the organization other than to report things like this. So what exactly does the NAACP do, anyway? Because I will never find out just from reading the paper. Can anyone tell me?

mgroothand

All this flap and exchange of negativism about a flag and what it once symbolically stood for. (No, not to preserve slavery). Why does the NAACP not go after all the carefully preserved and beautifully maintained plantations and have them destroyed? Same for the antebellum homes all throughout the south and so many other reminders of the mid 1800's? Should all the cotton fields be burned? The NAACP has far outlived its usefulness, any form of discrimination is against the law and, if discovered, taken up with the proper authorities. Today the NAACP serves only as a divisive organization.

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