Pat Hines fails to see Confederate Flag as symbol of hate
Pat Hines, chairman of the South Carolina League of the South was slammed on CNN when he stated that removing the confederate flag is cultural genocide of southern men and women. Really? He is unable to see that it is a symbol of hate by a people that committed treason against the United States of America.
Who or what exactly is the League of the South? The Southern Poverty Law Center reports the following.
Founded: 1994 – Location: Killen, AL – Ideology: Neo-Confederate
The League of the South is a neo-Confederate group that advocates for a second Southern secession and a society dominated by “European Americans.” The “godly” nation envisioned by the League should be run by an “Anglo-Celtic” (read: white) elite that would establish a Christian theocratic state and politically dominate blacks and other minorities. Originally founded by a group that included many Southern university professors, the group lost its Ph.D.s as it became more explicitly racist. The league denounces the federal government and northern and coastal states as part of “the Empire,” a materialist and anti-religious society. In recent years, it has become increasingly rabid, writing about potential violence, criticizing perceived Jewish power, and warning blacks that they would be defeated in any “race war.”
In Its Own Words
“Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery. Where in the world are the Negroes better off today than in America?” — Jack Kershaw, League of the South board member, 1998“[T]he Southern League supports a return to a political and social system based on kith and kin rather than an impersonal state wedded to the idea of the universal rights of man. At its core is a European population.” — Michael Hill, essay on League of the South website, 2000
After understanding what Pat Hines represents it is not difficult to understand the ignorant statements he made on CNN. When Don Lemon asked Hines why he did not want the Confederate flag removed, he said it was a memorial to his ancestors. In other words he wanted the treason committed by his ancestors honored on state grounds? He actually said his ancestors fought against the invasion of South Carolina by the United States. Hines also cannot understand why the American flag is flying over the state capitol given that state flags are not flown over the Post Office. Don Lemon responded that it is one country.
South Carolina Senator Marlon Kimpson stated that the flag belong in a museum. He pointed out that the flag is a divisive symbol and it was time for South Carolina to move into the 21st Century.
Hines responded to the senator with a striking statement. “What I don’t understand is why this state senator is moving to do cultural genocide on the southern men and women,” Pat Hines said. “I don’t get that. Maybe he is not from the South. I don’t really know him.”
CNN analyst Sunny Hostin could take it no more and interjected. “That is so absurd, the suggestion somehow that taking down the flag,” Hostin said. “is cultural genocide when that flag represents terror and intimidation of African-Americans in that state is just unbelievable, that you would have the audacity.” Hines responded, “Well, I’m an audacious kind of guy.”
Senator Marlon Kimpson had the better retort. “My daddy always taught me not to wallow in the swamps with hogs,” Kimpson said. “And so I won’t dignify that remark. I am here to represent this district including African American and white people and all colors and creeds and genders. ’cause we are moving forward without delay, undeterred to move South Carolina in the 21st Century. I will not waste my time to dignify ignorant comments.”
One wonders why the media does not call out these groups that in words and acts are no more than treasonous secessionists. Those that think like Pat Hines questioned the legitimacy of our President and his American bonafides. That is laughable. Yet while the media gave their attacks on the President real estate on their networks, where was the examination of these people and their un-American beliefs.
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