The Jacksonian: NAACP to Continue Fight over Battle Flag

The Jacksonian

NAACP to Continue Fight over Battle Flag

COLUMBIA -- The NAACP will make a stronger push to remove the Confederate flag from the grounds of the South Carolina State House, the president of the civil rights organization said Monday.

Benjamin Jealous wouldn't go into details but said by the summer the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People would bring more publicity to its economic boycott of South Carolina. The campaign calls for blacks to not vacation in the state and spend as little money as they can within its borders.

Jealous was in South Carolina to speak at a rally by the state's NAACP chapter honoring Martin Luther King Jr.

While speakers also discussed education and health care, the rally in South Carolina continues to be entwined with the Confederate flag, which slowly waved in a slight breeze on a 30-foot pole on the front lawn of the Capitol.

Source: The Aiken Standard

This issue is another example of South Carolina's political leadership failing to recognize the need to remember the past but embrace the future. Other southern states have resolved this issue recognizing that economic development will follow. South Carolina insists on staying in the past and its people suffer for this mistake.