The South Carolina NAACP honored Martin Luther King Jr. Day Monday while simultaneously dishonoring the nation’s first president.
An organized rally — dubbed “King Day at the Dome” — protested the Confederate battle flag on display at the State House in Columbia and featured speakers and guests who called on government leaders to address “racial disparities” in education, health care, community development, criminal justice, employment and economic development in the state. But as a number of local and national speakers stepped forward to speak from the capitol steps, a large bronze statue of George Washington was conspicuously hidden.
I don't know about anybody else, But I get the feeling that this kind of conduct is getting dangerously close to stepping over the line, the line that divides peaceful debate from open hostilities.
I can't imagine what the fools who did this were thinking, but it certainly was not helpful towards any sort of peaceful co-existence.
It would be relatively easy for one to read this action as a "slap in the face" of every American by the NAACP and its members.
These people seem to be itching for a no-holds-barred confrontation, but they should reflect on the wisdom in the comment about "being careful what you wish for".
Not good... Not good.
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