Lindsey Graham: Confederate Flag Is a "Part of Who We Are"

[liberal N proud]

Following the mass shooting inside a black church in Charleston, South Carolina on Wednesday, one flag was conspicuously not lowered to half-mast in tribute to the nine lives lost in the deadly attack—the Confederate flag, which regularly flies on the grounds of the state capitol, despite countless calls for its removal because of its racist roots.

The rebel flag's presence in Columbia was especially disturbing this week after images surfaced showing the suspected gunman's embrace of the flag, which was on his license plates. (Dylann Roof also wore patches baring the flags of Apartheid-era South Africa and Rhodesia, the racist symbolism of which was evident.)

While other GOP politicians, including Massachusetts Gov. Charlie Baker, are criticizing the flag's enduring presence, Sen. Lindsey Graham, who hails from South Carolina and is now running for president, has come to the rebel flag's defense. According to Graham, the Confederate flag is an integral "part of who we are."

http://www.motherjones.com/mojo/2015/06/lindsey-graham-defends-confederate-flag


It says a lot about who "they" are!

[Cali_Democrat]

1. We know

You guys have a history of slavery, extreme racism and oppression.

It's who you are!

[LiberalEsto]

2. Amen.

Who they are: assholes. Extreme assholes.

[hifiguy]

12. Benighted assholes.

Living in a past that never existed.

You're damn right it's who you are, you POS.

[arcane1]

3. Why aren't they also flying a Union Jack?

Being a former British colony is just as much a "part of who they are".

[Botany]

4. Good God in Butter

The Confederate flag is a symbol of the Confederate State of America
which was about 2 things:

1) The right to keep human beings as slaves.

b) The destruction of the United states of America.

It is a symbol for treason.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Traitors and racists

Fuck them sideways.

[MineralMan]

6. Yes, indeed Lindsey. It IS part of who you are.

You are an unreconstructed remnant of a vile racist, slave-owning society. We understand. You stand with those like you, who still don't get the concept of equality. You like the racist flag, because it is exactly that. You celebrate the heritage of a society that owned human beings like cattle.

We understand, Lindsey. That's why we have zero respect for you, you worthless POS!

[frylock]

7. Yeah. Fucking losers.

[SoCalDem]

8. Swastikas used the be what Germany "was", but they had the intelligence to

outlaw them.. the confederate flag and all the other trappings are just things that sore losers hang onto wistfully, and since the somehow seem to control things, they get away with it

[KamaAina]

9. geek tragedy has dubbed the Stars and Bars the "Dixie Swastika"!

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10026858080

[hifiguy]

13. That is a keeper.

[notadmblnd]

10. Well Duh. Hey little Lindsey, you people show us what you are almost on a daily basis.

It's not secret what that flag is a symbol of. It's a symbol of hate, it's a symbol of racism, it's a symbol of slavery. It's a symbol of white supremacy and a symbol of tyranny.

I totally agree, it is definitely part of who you and many people like you are.

I guess you should be given an "atta boy" for at least being honest about it. SMDH

[world wide wally]

11. Then you a a fucking traitor who took up arms against the United States (just like ISIS) and only

put them down because we kicked your ass.
And still you don't want to accept that.
Maybe we should do it again. (Just a thought)

[Politicalboi]

14. Self hating asshole

Those that carried that flag would hang him from a tree the first chance they got.