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Rand Paul: Confederate flag is “inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery”
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Rand Paul: Confederate flag is “inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery”
Bonnie Kristian, Rare Contributor
Posted on June 23, 2015 8:36 am
During a radio interview this morning, Senator Rand Paul offered his take on the Confederate battle flag, which many have said should be taken down from South Carolina government properties in the wake of the racist murders of nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
Here’s what Paul said:
No, I agree, I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery, and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hated so vicious that you would kill somebody I think that that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing.
Obviously it’s a decision for South Carolina to make, but if I were in South Carolina, that’s what I would vote to do, and that’s what I would recommend to anybody who asked for my opinion. There have been people who have used it for southern pride and heritage and all of that but really to I think to every African American in the country it’s a symbolism of slavery to them and now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man and so I think it’s time to put it in a museum.
Other Republican candidates, particularly Lindsey Graham and Mike Huckabee, have taken much more dubious positions. View a list of their statements—which has not yet been updated to include Paul’s remarks—here.
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***** He's getting tons of negative reactions for this on FB. Talk about milquetoast.
Rand Paul: Confederate flag is “inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery”
Bonnie Kristian, Rare Contributor
Posted on June 23, 2015 8:36 am
During a radio interview this morning, Senator Rand Paul offered his take on the Confederate battle flag, which many have said should be taken down from South Carolina government properties in the wake of the racist murders of nine black churchgoers in Charleston.
Here’s what Paul said:
No, I agree, I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery, and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hated so vicious that you would kill somebody I think that that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing.
Obviously it’s a decision for South Carolina to make, but if I were in South Carolina, that’s what I would vote to do, and that’s what I would recommend to anybody who asked for my opinion. There have been people who have used it for southern pride and heritage and all of that but really to I think to every African American in the country it’s a symbolism of slavery to them and now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man and so I think it’s time to put it in a museum.
Other Republican candidates, particularly Lindsey Graham and Mike Huckabee, have taken much more dubious positions. View a list of their statements—which has not yet been updated to include Paul’s remarks—here.
FB Post:
https://www.facebook.com/Rand2016?fref=ts
http://rare.us/story/rand-paul-conf...apably-a-symbol-of-human-bondage-and-slavery/
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