The times, they are still a-changin' - Charleston Post Courier
In 1962, the all-white S. C. General Assembly ordered a Confederate flag to fly over the Statehouse as a blatant symbol of defiance to the federal push for racial desegregation. In a 2000 compromise that removed that Confederate flag from the dome, the no-longer-all-white General Assembly ordered another Confederate flag to fly by the Confederate memorial in front of the Statehouse. In 2015, our non-white female governor rightly and successfully pushed to remove the flag — a mission completed Friday with widespread bipartisan consent from our state’s elected officials, including a black U. S. senator. In the mid-1980s, the villainous rassler’ The Iron Sheik was billed as being from Tehran, Iran, and drew “USA, USA” chants from patriotic spectators as he pledged allegiance to the evil-doer ayatollahs who ran that nation. Mustafa from Baghdad, Iraq, and drew “USA, USA” chants as he pledged allegiance to evil-doer Saddam Hussein. In 1996, President Bill Clinton signed the Defense of Marriage Act, which limited matrimony to one man and one woman. Fifteen days ago, the U. S. Supreme Court banned states from banning gay marriage, legally re-defining the institution. OK, so not all of us see changes the same way — though we all should agree that the looming switch of Spring and Cannon from one-way to two-way streets is a lousy idea. Source: www.postandcourier.com
