President Gore's view on the confederate flag

[Jackson4Gore]

Confederate flags divide us-remove them from Statehouses
Gore said the Confederate flag should come down from public buildings because it divides Americans. Gore said the flag represents “for many Americans a hurtful message that recalls the pain of slavery” and it should not be flown from the South Carolina Statehouse or other public buildings. “The citizens of goodwill everywhere must take a position on it and see that in fact the American flag heals and the Confederate flag divides us,” he said. “I think there is too much tolerance of intolerance.”
Source: Holly Ramer, Associated Press Jan 16, 2000

[Bread and Circus]

1. That's about the same thing Clark said...

maybe Clark is a stalking horse for Gore...

[Bucky]

2. or maybe...

Clark is a stalking horse for Clark.

[Kahuna]

9. LOL! "Stalking horse for Gore"

I love it!

:yourock:

[Lefty48197]

3. Thank you for speaking the truth Al

There's just not enough of that these days.

[SahaleArm]

5. What, you don't agree with Confederate Dean?

:) *nm*

[JohnKleeb]

4. Good old Al

[many a good man]

6. What'd he have to say about the back window of pickup trucks?

Seems to me there might be a wee difference between the two, constitutionally speaking.

[HFishbine]

8. Big difference

Between a state-sanctioned confederate flag atop a statehouse and one displayed on the back of some guy's truck:

A Mason-Dixon poll conducted in January found that 77% of African-Americans believe the flag is a symbol of racism, and just 9% characterize it as a symbol of Southern heritage. Sixty-six percent of whites responding to the survey said the flag symbolizes Southern heritage, while just 21% describe it as a symbol of racism.

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In the end, this boils down to a public-policy decision. Does the government of South Carolina want to operate under a symbol that a significant percentage of its population regards as racist?


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Much of the progress we’ve made in civil rights in this country has come through the exercise of First Amendment rights. That has included marches, rallies and, yes, controversial and often confrontational comments directed at others.

By not permitting people to make comments that might potentially offend, we minimize confrontation, but we also eliminate candid and constructive conversation.

Provocative symbols like the Confederate flag can indeed pull us apart, but the free and open airing of these issues offers us our very best chance of pulling together.

more: http://www.ncac.org/cen_news/cn77confederateflag.html

[Cheswick2.0]

7. that would seem such an obvious truth

Why is it all democrats can't see it? It is sad how far we are willing to go to appease bigotry.