re: Alabama Governor Bentley has Confederate flags removed from Capitol grounds

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I'm more concerned with the political whiplash and the general overreaction by people who weren't even thinking about this issue 2 weeks ago. Some right-wing racist terrorist nutjob kills people in a church (which is completely awful and there will be a special place in hell for him), and the entire country suddenly feels this flag is evil? Somehow the cause? The new object of contempt?

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People have been fighting for the flag's removal in Alabama since it first appeared on the Capitol building in 1963, so it wasn't entirely a knee jerk reaction.

Now, the flag in question was moved from the capitol building to the Confederate monument at the capitol building in 1993 following a successful lawsuit. There had been 2 other unsuccessful lawsuits for its removal. The fight since then has gone virtually unnoticed, but there have been numerous protests since 93 for the removal of all 4 Confederate flags that fly at the Confederate monument.


Sure there are bigger issues, and those bigger issues are the reason Alabama's governor had the flags removed. He didn't want them to be a distraction to the bigger issue of the state legislature passing a budget later this summer when he calls a special session.