{"id":9881,"date":"2015-06-23T02:39:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T02:39:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9881"},"modified":"2015-06-23T02:39:53","modified_gmt":"2015-06-23T02:39:53","slug":"confederacy-debate-picks-up-steam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9881","title":{"rendered":"Confederacy debate picks up steam"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p>This national discussion we&#8217;re having about the Confederacy, its symbols and its place in American history has energized a lot of Americans.<\/p>\n<p>News came out today that Wal-Mart &#8212; a company headquartered in Bentonville, Ark. &#8212; is pulling its Confederate gear out of its stores.<\/p>\n<p>I mention the hometown of Wal-Mart because it&#8217;s in Arkansas, one of the states comprising the Confederate States of America.<\/p>\n<p>http:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/money\/companies\/wal-mart-pulls-confederate-flag-products-in-wake-of-shooting\/ar-AAbXYMU<\/p>\n<p>The catalyst for this discussion, of course, was that terrible tragedy in Charleston, S.C., where a shooter vented his rage against black people by killing nine people in a church as he reportedly was studying the Bible with them.<\/p>\n<p>Dylann Roof is accused of the crime. Roof, 21, is all but known to be a racist hater, wanting to launch a &#8220;race war&#8221; in the United\u00a0States.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederate States of America &#8212; and its symbol, the flag that for now flies on the statehouse grounds in South Carolina &#8212; committed a treasonous act in 1861 by seceding from the Union and then starting the Civil War with its bombardment of Fort Sumter in, of all places, Charleston Harbor.<\/p>\n<p>The Confederacy long has symbolized treason. Over time it has symbolized hatred of some white people against black people.<\/p>\n<p>Now we see a corporate giant taking its Confederate gear off its shelves.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the let the discussion continue and let it make clear the things for which the Confederacy stands.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This national discussion we&#8217;re having about the Confederacy, its symbols and its place in American history has energized a lot of Americans. News came out today that Wal-Mart &#8212; a company headquartered in Bentonville, Ark. &#8212; is pulling its Confederate gear out of its stores. I mention the hometown of Wal-Mart because it&#8217;s in Arkansas, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9881\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Confederacy debate picks up steam<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,14],"tags":[927,1014,1104,1108,1490,5150],"class_list":["post-9881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-national-news","category-political-news","tag-charleston-shooting","tag-civil-war","tag-confederacy","tag-confederate-states-of-america","tag-dylann-roof","tag-wal-mart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}