Thursday, January 03, 2008

NAACP and the Confederate Flag

From Islandpacket.com:

COLUMBIA, S.C. — Leaders of the South Carolina NAACP will re-ignite their effort to remove the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds this month and hope the presence of two Democratic presidential front-runners adds weight to the annual rally.

Hillary Rodham Clinton and Barack Obama are scheduled to attend the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday march and rally Jan. 21, just days before Democrats in this early primary state go to the polls. The NAACP hopes the candidates, and the national attention they'll bring, will spotlight the divisive flag that now flutters alongside one of the city's busiest streets.

"America is a mean country and South Carolina is a meaner state," said Lonnie Randolph, president of the state chapter of the NAACP. "For the government of this state to continue to endorse bigotry, racism and white supremacy, we are going to continue raise our voice and speak out against it."

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Locally, NAACP Fort Wayne-Allen County Branch #3049 will be conducting a Community forum for legislators to address hate crime. Gregory Porter will be introducing a new hate crime bill 1076. The new hate crime will include homeless people protection that is different from the bias crime bill Porter introduced under 1459 in February 2008.

The meeting will held in the Downtown Allen County Public Library in Room A at 5:30 P.m. today, January 3, 2008. Win Moses, an Indiana Legislator will discuss the legislation process.

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