CofCC News More NewsA 18-year-old student was barred from entering her High School Prom over the weekend because her dress resembled a Confederate flag. Gibson County High’s principal, James Hughes, made the decision to bar the student from entering the prom. Eddie Pruett, director of the Gibson County School system, defended Hughes and said that their have been “race [...]
From Examiner.com… A proposed construction project at the corner John C. Calhoun Drive and Russell Street in Orangeburg has put a Confederate monument and a Maurice Bessingers BBQ in danger. The project has many people crying foul. Both of the properties in danger are the targets of a twenty year old campaign by the NAACP [...]
Update: Please call SCDOT Program Manager Kevin Gantt at 1-803-737-5808 and tell him that you oppose the project at John C. Calhoun Drive and Russell Street. We need you to call by Friday afternoon (March 9th). From Examiner.com… South Carolina Bureaucrats are trying to use traffic congestion as an excuse to bulldoze a Confederate memorial [...]
NASCAR spit on it’s southern fan base by declaring that the Confederate flag is offensive. NASCAR reneged on a promise to allow PGA star Bubba Watson drive an original General Lee from the Duke of Hazard tv show as a pace car at the Phoenix International Raceway. Despite being most popular among white southerners, NASCAR [...]
The extreme left-wing daily newspaper in St. Paul, MN has launched a hate campaign against city council member Ed Hansen. The local paper hates him because he is the most conservative member of the local city government. The paper is complaining about a barely visible, partially obscured Confederate flag in his back yard! They newspaper [...]
From Rick Perry… Texas Gov. Rick Perry said Wednesday he was opposed to the state issuing a license plate featuring a Confederate battle flag, publicly declaring his position on the proposal for the first time. The Sons of Confederate Veterans applied for the Texas plate but opponents have called it highly offensive to African-Americans. The [...]
Whatever the white singer popularly known as Kid Rock did to win the admiration of some of Detroit’s NAACP, it was not enough for the rest of them. He was chosen to receive the Detroit NAACP’s Great Expectations Award at their annual fundraiser dinner but part of the NAACP group say they will boycott the [...]
One hundred fifty years ago today, on March 4, 1861, the newly-formed Confederate States of America approved the “Stars and Bars” as the official national flag of the Confederacy. Seven stars representing the seven seceded states formed a circle in a blue canton, which was set in the corner of broad red-white-red bars. A later [...]
