Alabama governor orders Confederate flags down at Capitol

[Spazito]

"Alabama's governor has ordered Confederate flags to taken down from the grounds of the state Capitol in Montgomery, the latest move to banish the divisive banner from state capitals, store shelves, license plates and monuments."

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/alabama-governor-orders-confederate-flags-down-at-capitol-1.3125901

[NuclearDem]

1. About damn time.

[Spazito]

2. Completely agree...

long past time.

[Sissyk]

3. Just saw this on CNN:

"All four Confederate flags at the Confederate memorial on the Alabama Capitol grounds have been removed by the order of Gov. Robert Bentley, his office says."

bolding mine

I'll take every bit of progress as positive!

[Spazito]

4. "I'll take every bit of progress as positive!"

Me too!

[Sissyk]

7. Here's one you may not know about.

"NASCAR will continue our long-standing policy to disallow the use of the Confederate Flag symbol in any official NASCAR capacity."

I know NASCAR gets crapped on here; but once again, they were doing it before white people (as a group) even gave a damn about that idiot flag, while taking that idiotic flag to races from North Carolina to California.

[Spazito]

9. I didn't know that...

thanks for this and kudos to NASCAR for doing it.

[Sissyk]

12. You're welcome!

[HassleCat]

5. What about the north?

Most people in the south are finally realizing how this looks. "How could we be so stupid? (facepalm) We look like a bunch of ignorant bigots. Take down that damn thing!" Meanwhile, here in the upper-left corner of the nation, I still see the moron flag flying from pickup trucks and flag poles. One guy even got hisself an old wooden pallet and painted an idiot flag on it, and he displays it in his front yard.

[edhopper]

6. There is a difference between public sector displays

and private (read: stupid jagoff) doing it.
Also the racism it represents is a big part of the political culture in the South.
The same type of politician is rare in the NE and limited to white asshole enclaves.

[Spazito]

8. The flag has not been banned...

Private ownership by racists of the racist flag is their right and flying it on their own property is also their right. By doing so, they are showing their racist asses but it is their right.

[yallerdawg]

10. This is remarkable!

This is the capitol and office George Wallace worked out of! We drive by the State Capitol all the time. I had no idea this was even a possibility!

Governor Bentley (R) does the right thing.

Next, sign up for ACA Medicaid!

He's calling up the State Legislature for a Special Session to get a 2016 budget. He vetoed the one the Republican super-majority sent him.

It didn't raise taxes! That's right - it didn't raise taxes!

Welcome to Bizarro World of the South!

Republican or Democrat - in the South, really can get confusing!

[Spazito]

11. Signs of progress!

Tiny steps maybe, but steps toward progress none the less. The work now is to sustain the progress made while fighting for substantive, long-lasting change.

[nikto]

13. hey, it's just a flag ...

[Cha]

14. So sad it had to come to this to make that stupid flag toxic, Spazito.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/1017151778

[Spazito]

15. Very sad...

The deaths of so many people murdered by those who carried that flag in their hands and their minds.