"I had a friend die Wednesday night for no reason other than he was a black man. Senator Pinckney was an incredible human being."
—State Representative Doug Brannon (R-Spartanburg)
Doug Brannon — unlike the craven Lady Lindsey — has come to Jesus on the Confederate flag. He says he will introduce legislation in the next session to have the banner removed from South Carolina's statehouse grounds.
Let's hope that more Republicans come to recognize the flag for the rag of hate that it is. For our part, we cats just want to say we're sick of it: not just sick of the flag, but of the whole so-called "heritage" that it's supposed to represent.
We cats aren't usually profane. But it would be so wonderful if, in this centenary year of The Birth of the Nation, South Carolina decided to lose that fucking flag for good.
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