Congress misses the point on the Confederate flag
The weekend press continues to focus on Friday's removal of the Confederate "battle flag" from South Carolina's capitol. It was, of course, an unexpected positive reaction to the horrendous murders of nine black worshippers in a Charleston church several weeks ago.
Kathleen Parker, an op-ed writer at WPost, today discussed it, saying she was "not alone in having sometimes felt embarrassed to say I’m from South Carolina... Today, not so."
She foresees that the positive* events will become a trend in the state. She welcomes a South Carolina university "...program modeled after the University of Mississippi’s William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, facilitat[ing] honest, productive conversations among blacks and whites at the local level."
Mindful of the ugly fuss in the US House of Representatives last week over the flag issue, Parker concludes, "Perhaps when [the Institute's director] wraps up in South Carolina, she could visit the U.S. Congress."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lowering-the-flag-of-divisiveness/2015/07/10/e519f21a-2740-11e5-aae2-6c4f59b050aa_story.html
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* It was separately reported today that the NAACP had ended a 16-year boycott of South Carolina over the flag issue.
Kathleen Parker, an op-ed writer at WPost, today discussed it, saying she was "not alone in having sometimes felt embarrassed to say I’m from South Carolina... Today, not so."
She foresees that the positive* events will become a trend in the state. She welcomes a South Carolina university "...program modeled after the University of Mississippi’s William Winter Institute for Racial Reconciliation, facilitat[ing] honest, productive conversations among blacks and whites at the local level."
Mindful of the ugly fuss in the US House of Representatives last week over the flag issue, Parker concludes, "Perhaps when [the Institute's director] wraps up in South Carolina, she could visit the U.S. Congress."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/lowering-the-flag-of-divisiveness/2015/07/10/e519f21a-2740-11e5-aae2-6c4f59b050aa_story.html
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* It was separately reported today that the NAACP had ended a 16-year boycott of South Carolina over the flag issue.