It’s been quite a week for S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley on the “Bubba front.” In fact, we’re guessing that the “Tweeters” over at Boss Hogg Haley are positively beside themselves with glee.
Over the last forty-eight hours, we’ve learned that Haley not only thinks she’s white … but supports leaving the Confederate battle flag flying on the grounds of the S.C. State House. Well … she doesn’t necessarily support it, but she’s not going to make moving it off the grounds a part of her “agenda.”
“More than a decade ago, under the leadership of a Democratic governor, South Carolinians Republican and Democrat, black and white, came to a compromise position on the Confederate flag,” Haley’s spokesman Rob Godfrey told FOX News. “Many people were uncomfortable with that compromise, but it addressed a sensitive subject in a way that South Carolina as a whole could accept. We don’t expect people from outside of the state to understand that dynamic, but revisiting that issue is not part of the governor’s agenda.”
Those comments came in response to criticism of Haley by the NAACP, which equated discrimination of African-Americans in the South with the treatment received by Haley’s ancestors in India under British rule.
“What would Gandhi do?” NAACP President Benjamin Jealous asked Haley.
The Confederate flag dominated headlines during the 2000 Republican presidential primary in South Carolina – giving the state literally months of bad press. In April 2000, the S.C. Senate voted 33-7 to remove the flag from the dome of the S.C. State House – and from inside the House and Senate chambers.
In spite of the compromise, the NAACP is still enforcing a totally ineffective tourism boycott against South Carolina, while the NCAA is refusing to hold collegiate athletic tournaments in the Palmetto state. Some Democratic lawmakers have attempted to discourage football recruit from attending the University of South Carolina as a result of the flag’s presence.
In the fall of 2009, we asked our readers what they thought about the Confederate flag’s current location on the South Carolina State House grounds.
According to our survey, forty-one percent of FITS readers (723 votes) want the flag to stay right where it is – positioned behind a Confederate soldier’s monument on the northern side of the State House grounds. Thirty-four percent (599 votes) actually want the flag to go back on top of the State House dome. Finally, twenty-six percent (458 votes) want it to be removed from the State House grounds altogether and placed in a museum.
We don’t care one way or the other … as we’ve noted previously, we believe that symbols like the flag are utterly meaningless. They can be used by anybody to advance anything … just like political labels. State leaders can leave it, move it, burn it or use it as a bath towel for all we care.
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By Andy July 29, 2011 at 3:26 pm
I’m no fan of Nikki and certainly not the shit for brains staffers she has do her non-speaking for her. On this issue though, what else can she do? Getting involved with the flaggers is lose-lose.
Being governor of this shithole is like trying to do the hundred yard dash with one of your feet stuck up your ass. For you, it’s impossible. For us, it provides a lot of laughs.
By Crooner July 29, 2011 at 3:35 pm
It’s part of her heritage.
By Popeye July 29, 2011 at 4:28 pm
Imagine being a shithead governor of this shithole………
By BigT July 29, 2011 at 4:54 pm
Who cares, other than the people who already
Hate her???
By theo July 29, 2011 at 5:17 pm
What about the statue of George Washington? The NAACP boxed it out this past year. Will removing the statue of George Washington from the statehouse graounds be the next cause celebre for the NAACP? Let’s try harder to make ourselves relevent, shall we?
By rwwllms July 29, 2011 at 6:18 pm
People and things only have as much power and/or significance as you allow it or give it.
Anytime anyone complains about a piece of cloth flying beside a statue they empower it and give it way more significance that it actually is.
It just a piece of cloth. Okay, a somewhat colorful piece of cloth but a piece of cloth nonetheless.
Just like fake faith healers get their power from the poor souls they con. The Confederate flag gets it’s power from the ignorant and fools.
By Bob The Builder July 30, 2011 at 8:36 am
“NAACP is still enforcing a totally ineffective tourism boycott against South Carolina”
No they are not enforcing anything. They are calling for a boycott.
If they were enforcing the boycott, Black Bike Week (among other things) would not exist.
As to Haley: who gives a rats ass.
As to the flag being on the State House grounds: The loser in any way generally strikes his colors. The South lost, strike the colors.
Losers all.
By Nikki's Twitter July 30, 2011 at 9:27 am
Get excited. I am fabulous. Vicki helping my stress. Tim’s awesome back-rubs. Mike’s great fishing. Veteran’s help themselves. Bisexuals are great lovers. I am white. NAACP is wrong. A wonderful day to be the beautiful me. I am great for me, SC, and America.
By norman July 30, 2011 at 3:00 pm
The nation is still fighting several wars or have we forgot SC citizens are being blown up. Economy in a tail spin. All the media cares about is some drugged drunk died in the UK and the NAACP carping about an old remnant of a failed cause!!!
By Doug Taylor July 31, 2011 at 11:40 am
The NAACP Remind me of the ex-leper in Monty Python’s the life of Brian.After being cured by a miracle it didn’t stop him from runing around yelling”Alms for a ex-leper”
I mean, it’s like a miracle, what has happening in this country: slavery ended Jim Crow ended legal discrimination ended. African Americans inpowed to the point that they can be generals, cabinet secretaries, justices of the Supreme Court even dare I say it president. But here group of little lowlifes running around yelling “Alms for the formerly oppressed”, “alms for the formerly oppressed”. They have become nothing but a joke.
By Nikki's Twitter July 31, 2011 at 2:35 pm
Get excited. Complete silence about Will Folk’s lies and fictitious accusations PROVES I’ve always been truthful and faithful about everything. A wonderful day to be the beautiful me. I am great for me, SC, and America.
By over-the-YBR July 31, 2011 at 9:29 pm
The confederate flag is a part of SC history and should be treated that way. The confederate flag is a symbol of many things. Yes, SC was on the losing side of the war between the states. But we should recall that Japan was on the losing side of WWII, but Japan continues to fly the rising sun and no one has a problem with that.
By Dabo August 1, 2011 at 9:35 am
over-the-YBR. You are a fuckign dumbass. The war was about slavery.
By west_rhino August 1, 2011 at 9:53 am
To consider that the NAACP needs an issue to suggest thier relevancy and a legitimate one pisses off the porch “sitters” and house “boys” that keep the votes on the plantation, this flag issue, that they KNOW constitutionally is not under the Governor’s control gives them (they think) a no lose target.
Alas, tis’ trite and other issues that ought to maintain NAACP’s relevence keep Jasper County and Marlboro County and several others po’ an barefoot an “ignunt” an votin tha big “D”.
Dabo, you’s rite, enslaving tha’ souf so Clem an sons can lay in shambles afta Hokies and BC Eagles has landed (should a seen the look on Fridge Perry’s face).
By watch at 2:00 mark August 1, 2011 at 11:14 am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PGQ0hFPzWuk&feature=player_embedded
gets awesome at 2:00. Fresno Brown Berets say, “Go to hell, tea party! America stole this land.” What’s happening in California worse than the Confederate flag faux issue.
By pedro August 1, 2011 at 11:34 am
http://www.therealpedro.com/videos.html
By SylviasDaddy August 1, 2011 at 12:45 pm
The Confederate States were fighting for the same reason the Continentals fought Britain in 1776, the Mexicans fought Spain in 1818, and the Texians fought Mexico in 1836: They had seceded to escape an overweening, oppressive central government that wanted to force them to remain.
To refute the oft-repeated lie that the War for Southern Independence (commonly but erroneously called “The Civil War”) was fought over slavery, I need only mention the Corwin Amendment — proposed by Congressman Thomas Corwin of Ohio, passed by Congress 2 March 1861, and endorsed by Abraham Lincoln. That amendment read: “No amendment shall be made to the Constitution which will authorize or give to Congress the power to abolish or interfere, within any State, with the domestic institutions thereof, including that of persons held to labor or service by the laws of said State.”
If the seceded States had wished to perpetuate slavery, they had only to re-join the Union and ratify that amendment.
Anyone who seeks an offensive flag needs to look no farther than the thirteen-stripe United States flag.
Under that flag, many thousands of Africans were transported to slavery in the New World.
No Confederate-flagged ship ever made a slaving-run.
Under that flag, atrocities were committed against noncombatant civilians during the 1860s — atrocities to rank with those committed by the Germans and Japanese during World War II.
No Confederate unit ever committed atrocities against noncombatants.
Under that flag, Ulysses S. Grant issued General Order No. 11, expelling all Jews from parts of Tennessee, Mississippi, and Kentucky.
The Confederate States of America never practiced anti-Semitism. To the contrary — the Confederate forces included Jewish officers and enlisted men, and from the beginning, the Confederate cabinet included Judah Philip Benjamin, a Jew. (The first Jewish US cabinet member, Oscar Straus, served under Theodore Roosevelt.)
Under that flag, the military services were segregated until after World War II.
Confederate military units saw many different ethnicities – including thousands of blacks – serving cheek-by-jowl and receiving the same pay and allowances.
Under that flag, Native Americans/Indians were cheated, forcibly removed from their ancestral lands, and massacred wholesale.
Native Americans/Indians received no such treatment at Confederate hands. To the contrary — Native Americans/Indians played a vital role in the Confederate Army. General Stand Watie, a Cherokee, was the last Confederate general to sign a cease-fire with the US Army.
Under that flag, American citizens in the 1940s were forcibly removed from their homes and herded into concentration camps solely because their ancestors had been born in Japan.
The Confederate States of America never put anyone into a concentration camp based on his parents’ ethnicity.
That flag is the favored flag of the Ku Kluxers. See http://pointsouth.com/csanet/kkk.htm for pictures.
So – if you seek an offensive flag, go for Old Glory.
By Liberty First August 1, 2011 at 4:12 pm
The NAACP is racist. How can we allow this organization to continue calling our proud African-American citizens “colored people” ???
We should all immediately begin a strict and total boycott of the NAACP until they change their name to the National Association for the Equality (not “advancement” which means superiority) of African Americans.
If I understand correctly, this state has seen annual tourism growth each year that the NAALCP boycott has been in place.
How can I get boycotted by these idiots? I need the raise.
By Shut up and suck me August 1, 2011 at 6:02 pm
You know those white people gotta stick together.
By Shut up and suck me too. August 1, 2011 at 7:00 pm
Yes those white people stick together, just like blacks do, and asians do, and muslims, and any other ethnic group you want to name. That still does not make the truth become a lie, nor a lie become truth. If you want truth, go back and read Sylviasdaddy’s post, or hell, research it yourself. If you want to continue believing lies, them stick with “shut up and suck me” just above. It never fails, any time truth meets ignorance, it’s always because “those people stick together”. You should try to remember that every time you point a finger at someone else, you have three fingers pointing back at yourself. Rather than sit around and bitch about everything that was wrong, or is wrong, or is going to be wrong, why don’t you get up off of your lazy ass and do something? I mean other than showing us all just how ignorant you are with a remark like “you know those people stick together”. Stupid asshole.
By lavish wolf August 1, 2011 at 9:32 pm
i miss reading excerpts from your time in relations with the Gov. Could you PLEASE let us in on when your book is coming out? is it dealyed?
By s.v.s. August 17, 2011 at 7:53 pm
winners wright the books ,now do you realy think millions of white people went to war to free slaves? what about the tens of thousands of black confederates that fought for there states rights along side whites in the south?
By s.v.s. August 17, 2011 at 8:39 pm
sylviasdaddy, has the truth ,think god for truth tellers