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An open Internet letter to the Editors of The State Newspaper in Columbia, SC

In a previous letter to the editors I pointed out your remarkable dishonesty. That letter, of course, wasn't printed but rather returned to me with the note that you just get too many letters to print them all. Today, however, you've outdone even yourself.

Today, Friday, December 10th, you had a lead editorial against the flag plus an opinion piece on the same page by Warren Bolten trying to get the flag down. You also had two other pieces on the page opposite your editorial against the flag, plus a front page story in the local news section quoting Senator Darrell Jackson, an African-American Senator from Richland County upset over the proposed African-American Monument Commission. His statement was complete with more anti-flag rhetoric. (Keep the name Darrell Jackson in mind for a moment.) You even had a two-column headline on the flag in the Live Wire section. Those six separate anti-flag pieces appear to be a record number of mentions for even you who now run two to three anti-flag stories each day.

What you didn't have in your paper was the Associated Press story that quoted Senator Darrell Jackson as saying "I guess I've come to the conclusion that if the flag is offensive then it will be just as offensive flying on the yard (the State House grounds) as it would flying on a flag pole." This statement was carried by the AP in a story released on December 9th under the headline, " Confederate flag should move from Statehouse grounds, NAACP leaders say." The AP reported, "The only compromise the leaders would accept during a meeting with Gov. Jim Hodges was a plan to move the flag to the Confederate Relic Room, WIS-TV reported Wednesday." You didn't carry it even though WIS-TV carried it the previous day.

Could it be that you were just too busy gathering up a record number of anti-flag pieces for you newspaper that you missed this interesting development? Or could it be that you actually read the AP wire and simply refused to print it realizing that the NAACP's newly leaked position would undercut your obsessive anti-flag efforts? Could it be you were just so busy that you can quote Darrell Jackson in his displeasure about the flag, but you can't quote him in his one honest moment when he tells his true feelings about any flag "compromise."

I have a theory. I think you saw it on the AP wire and you killed it because you have been pushing some sort of "compromise" and now realize that your black pets aren't going to compromise. When the honest musing of one of your allies undercuts your position you simply refuse to print it. So now you have gone from being an openly biased source of information on the issue of the flag to being a manager of the news.

We all now know that of the dozens of pro-flag letters you receive you print only a very few while printing almost every anti-flag letter. (We know this because our people are receiving those letters back with the photocopied cover letter that says "Your letter has merit, but we receive too many letters to print them all" while you print dozens of anti-flag letters.) That simple bit of slight-of-hand gives the false impression to the uninformed-your readers-that many more people want to bring the flag down rather than keep it up. That dishonest management of the news is not enough for you, however. Now you have taken to openly suppressing any facts that undermine your position.

I say "openly" because the Internet exists and we are telling people about the AP story and Senator Darrell Jackson's comment, a fact of which even you must be aware. But, you have done your dishonest best to suppress it. Of course, you can take pleasure knowing that all those people who don't have Internet connections will remain in the dark, which is just where you plan to keep them. In the mean time, your dishonesty has become more than unmistakable: it has become tangible.

One of the consistent lines you use when writing about the flag controversy is "people of good will." You apply that to the people who are advocating bringing the flag down-in other words people who agree with you. The consistently disrespectful and racist NAACP, and their allies, are a prime example of people whom you consider being "of good will." And you, of course, also assume that moral high ground position for yourself. But you are not people of good will. You are biased and openly dishonest.

Could you do the right thing for once and sell your incredibly dishonest newspaper to some decent people who, rather than follow in your conniving and deceiving footsteps, will adhere to some sort of journalistic ethics? Surely the people of South Carolina, even with all their faults, deserve better than you.

Palmetto.org's design and maintenance is donated by Kudzu Media, Batesburg, South Carolina, CSA, Virgil H. Huston Jr., Webmaster. © Copyright 1997, 1998 -- The South Carolina Division of The League of the South, Columbia, South Carolina, Confederate States of America. Some graphics © The League of the South, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Confederate States of America. All rights reserved.

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Here's a few more tid bits of info the liberal media doesn't care to point out:

There has been a lot of fuss showing up in the National media lately, regarding Heritage and the practice of Negro Slavery in certain regions during the last 250 years. Here in Virginia the state NAACP is offended by the usual official proclamation of April as Confederate History &

Heritage month (following March as African-American Heritage

Month). They now threaten a South-Carolina-style Tourism

boycott unless Confederate Month never occurs here again. In a

sincere attempt at mutual understanding, I would like to provide

some of the missing-as-usual historical Facts. Let's take a good

close look at the actual History of certain cherished and publicly-

celebrated Heritages (and their emblems).

American Colonial heritage: At the time of the War of Colonial

Secession from the English government, EVERY star in the US

flag stood for a state which practiced Negro slavery. In 1776

all the "rebel states" had slaves, and England did not.

Furthermore, all but the two landlocked ones (New Hampshire

and Vermont) were players in the Slave Trade from overseas.

Ships bearing fresh slaves from Africa docked on their shores.

The two greatest centers of the American slave trade business

(based on numbers of slaveships based there) were New York

City and Boston. When Colonial Secessionists dumped taxed

British tea overboard during the famous Boston Teaparty, it

lapped against the hulls of slaveships in the second largest

center of the American trade. Yet when the US celebrates

its Colonial Secession heritage, none of these undeniable

historical Facts are mentioned. No one seeks to heap shame

upon the Colonial Heritage celebrators. Betsy Ross' 13-star US

flag representing 13 slaveholding and 11 slavetrading states

is waved without challenge, and the heritage celebrations

American Pioneer / Wild West heritage: EVERY star in the US

flag up to 1899's 44 stars represents a state founded by whites

who invaded American Indian lands and killed those people

in a Genocidal war to take their land from them. According

to modern historians (based on archeological evidence), the

Native-American population had been reduced by about 90

(that's NINETY) percent. If that doesn't qualify as a Genocidal

war, what does? All over the US, women and children were

deliberately murdered along with the men. Bluecoated US

soldiers repeatedly gave conquered Indian tribes blankets

which were deliberately infected with the Smallpox virus.

That is biological warfare, added onto the genocide. Yet

when the US celebrates its Pioneer / Wild West heritage,

none of these undeniable historical Facts are mentioned.

The US flag representing 44 Genocidal states waves

unchallenged. Speaking of "hurt feelings" among an

offended minority, don't you wonder about the feelings of

many Native-Americans when they see it? But their voter-

population is few, and they have no powerful NAANAP (Natioal Association for the Advancement of Native American People).

Native-American heritage: It is well-known among historians

that a very large number of American Indian tribes enslaved

(for life) their captured enemies from other tribes. After contact

(around 1670) with slaveowning whites (in the North, South, and

Midwest), a significant number of Native American tribesmen

also owned Negro slaves. Yet when the slaver tribes celebrate

their heritage today, these historical Facts are not mentioned.

No one tries to heap shame upon the Heritage celebrants and

their Heritage symbols are not attacked.

African-American heritage: Question - Who actually enslaved

more Negroes than anyone else? And who actually SOLD more

Negro slaves than anyone else? Answer: African Negro tribes.

It is now acknowledged (at least by some) that the kidnapping

of Negroes by white slavers on the African coast is mostly a myth

comfortable to some persons. Why inflame powerful African

tribes when they are quite happy to sell you some of their slaves?

Like certain Native-American tribes, captured enemies were

enslaved by neighbor tribes, but the practice was more frequent

(and numerous) than in America. An African chief's political rivals

were often sold into slavery, as were "opponents" of any kind, not

just enemy tribesmen and their women and children. The breadth

and frequency of this practice statistically indicates Alex Haley (or

an ancestor) may well have fabricated the "Roots" story of the

white-slaver kidnapping of Kunta Kinte to avoid exposing the very

embarrassing fact about who did BY FAR THE MOST enslaving and

On April 30th 2000 the Richmond VA Times-

Dispatch newspaper ran a long story about a ceremony held on

April 29th, in which Negro representatives from the African nation

of Benin apologized for its major role in the Negro Slave Trade.

Now please note: The story starts with "Along a tranquil stretch

of [Virginia's] James River marred by a shameful past, Africans,

African-Americans, and descendants of Confederate Soldiers

joined yesterday to try to heal the wounds of slavery. The groups

participated in a ceremony that cast light, and condemnation, on

two LITTLE-PUBLICIZED [my capitalization] horrors of History --

Africans' role in sending slaves to the Americas, and [the USA's]

role in receiving and exporting slaves. Dignitaries from the

West African nation of Benin, a land where Africans once dealt

fellow Africans BY THE MILLIONS [my capitalization] to white

slavetraders, apologized for their nation's role. "We cry for

forgiveness and reconciliation," said Luc Gnacadga, Benin's

[Negro] Minister of Environment and Housing. "The slave trade

is a shame, and we do repent for it." ... Benin was called

Dahomey in the 17-1800s, and it was a major supplier for white

exporters shipping from what was called the African Slave Coast.

By some [historical] accounts [not "claims"], more than 3 million

[Negroes] were [sold into slavery].

... [The ceremony was also] addressed by Robert W. Barbour,

Commander of the Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate

As in the cases of the above-listed Heritages, none of these

undeniable historical Facts are mentioned when African-Americans

celebrate their African cultural heritage and display its symbols

(African banners and clothing). They are not made to feel shameful

for celebrating it. Their African historical clothing and emblems

are not proclaimed shameful and banned, etc, etc. etc.

Okay, 3 million were sold by Benin/Dahomey (just one of many

supplier-nations on the Slave Coast), and the slave population of

the CSA was: 3.5 million. I wonder what Alex "Roots" Haley and

his modern American "homeys" will say about that? Pardon me,

Mr. Haley has been dead for several years, so he can't answer.

But his NAACP "homeys" can. Do you hear their silence?

Openly-racist Negro city (of Richmond) Councilman Sa'ad El-Amin did

say (in response to Va. SCV Commander Barbour's speech at the

ceremony), "Before there can be reconciliation there must be

acceptance of responsibility." For once I agree with Councilman

El-Amin. But the acceptance of responsibility MUST NOT be a

one-way street for Confederate Americans to travel. Colonial

Pioneer, Wild West, Native-American, and African-American

Heritage & History celebrations are somehow totally exempted

from shame over slavery and slavetrading in their Cultural

homelands. ONLY Confederate-Americans are subjected to a

clearly bigoted hate campaign against their Cultural heritage.

The politically- and racially-motivated Hypocrisy of it stinks to

high Heaven. Almost every state in the United States was founded

upon Genocidal warfare and half were originally built using slave

labor, so all THOSE State History and Heritage celebrations and

symbols (including flags) will logically have to go too ...to be fair

and compassionate to the feelings of historically oppressed peoples.

JR (JohnReb) <>< member, Sons of Confed. Veterans, Richmond Va OCSA

My thanks to JR for the informative bits of historical data lagely ignored by the hypocritical liberal media.


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An open Internet letter to the Editors of The State Newspaper in Columbia, SC The Editors The State Dear Sirs, In a previous letter to the editors I pointed out your remarkable dishonesty. That letter, of course, wasn't printed but rather returned to me with the note that you just get too many letters to print them all. Today, however, you've outdone even yourself. Today, Friday, December 10th, you had a lead editorial against the flag plus an opinion piece on the same page by Warren Bolten trying to get the flag down. You also had two other pieces on the page opposite your editorial against the flag, plus a front page story in the local news section quoting Senator Darrell Jackson, an African-American Senator from Richland County upset over the proposed African-American Monument Commission. His statement was complete with more anti-flag rhetoric. (Keep the name Darrell Jackson in mind for a moment.) You even had a two-column headline on the flag in the Live Wire section. Those six separate anti-flag pieces appear to be a record number of mentions for even you who now run two to three anti-flag stories each day. What you didn't have in your paper was the Associated Press story that quoted Senator Darrell Jackson as saying "I guess I've come to the conclusion that if the flag is offensive then it will be just as offensive flying on the yard (the State House grounds) as it would flying on a flag pole." This statement was carried by the AP in a story released on December 9th under the headline, " Confederate flag should move from Statehouse grounds, NAACP leaders say." The AP reported, "The only compromise the leaders would accept during a meeting with Gov. Jim Hodges was a plan to move the flag to the Confederate Relic Room, WIS-TV reported Wednesday." You didn't carry it even though WIS-TV carried it the previous day. Could it be that you were just too busy gathering up a record number of anti-flag pieces for you newspaper that you missed this interesting development? Or could it be that you actually read the AP wire and simply refused to print it realizing that the NAACP's newly leaked position would undercut your obsessive anti-flag efforts? Could it be you were just so busy that you can quote Darrell Jackson in his displeasure about the flag, but you can't quote him in his one honest moment when he tells his true feelings about any flag "compromise." I have a theory. I think you saw it on the AP wire and you killed it because you have been pushing some sort of "compromise" and now realize that your black pets aren't going to compromise. When the honest musing of one of your allies undercuts your position you simply refuse to print it. So now you have gone from being an openly biased source of information on the issue of the flag to being a manager of the news. We all now know that of the dozens of pro-flag letters you receive you print only a very few while printing almost every anti-flag letter. (We know this because our people are receiving those letters back with the photocopied cover letter that says "Your letter has merit, but we receive too many letters to print them all" while you print dozens of anti-flag letters.) That simple bit of slight-of-hand gives the false impression to the uninformed-your readers-that many more people want to bring the flag down rather than keep it up. That dishonest management of the news is not enough for you, however. Now you have taken to openly suppressing any facts that undermine your position. I say "openly" because the Internet exists and we are telling people about the AP story and Senator Darrell Jackson's comment, a fact of which even you must be aware. But, you have done your dishonest best to suppress it. Of course, you can take pleasure knowing that all those people who don't have Internet connections will remain in the dark, which is just where you plan to keep them. In the mean time, your dishonesty has become more than unmistakable: it has become tangible. One of the consistent lines you use when writing about the flag controversy is "people of good will." You apply that to the people who are advocating bringing the flag down-in other words people who agree with you. The consistently disrespectful and racist NAACP, and their allies, are a prime example of people whom you consider being "of good will." And you, of course, also assume that moral high ground position for yourself. But you are not people of good will. You are biased and openly dishonest. Could you do the right thing for once and sell your incredibly dishonest newspaper to some decent people who, rather than follow in your conniving and deceiving footsteps, will adhere to some sort of journalistic ethics? Surely the people of South Carolina, even with all their faults, deserve better than you. Yours, Lake E. High, Jr. Columbia, SC Palmetto.org's design and maintenance is donated by Kudzu Media, Batesburg, South Carolina, CSA, Virgil H. Huston Jr., Webmaster. © Copyright 1997, 1998 -- The South Carolina Division of The League of the South, Columbia, South Carolina, Confederate States of America. Some graphics © The League of the South, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, Confederate States of America. All rights reserved. ---------------------------------------------- Here's a few more tid bits of info the liberal media doesn't care to point out: There has been a lot of fuss showing up in the National media lately, regarding Heritage and the practice of Negro Slavery in certain regions during the last 250 years. Here in Virginia the state NAACP is offended by the usual official proclamation of April as Confederate History & Heritage month (following March as African-American Heritage Month). They now threaten a South-Carolina-style Tourism boycott unless Confederate Month never occurs here again. In a sincere attempt at mutual understanding, I would like to provide some of the missing-as-usual historical Facts. Let's take a good close look at the actual History of certain cherished and publicly- celebrated Heritages (and their emblems). American Colonial heritage: At the time of the War of Colonial Secession from the English government, EVERY star in the US flag stood for a state which practiced Negro slavery. In 1776 all the "rebel states" had slaves, and England did not. Furthermore, all but the two landlocked ones (New Hampshire and Vermont) were players in the Slave Trade from overseas. Ships bearing fresh slaves from Africa docked on their shores. The two greatest centers of the American slave trade business (based on numbers of slaveships based there) were New York City and Boston. When Colonial Secessionists dumped taxed British tea overboard during the famous Boston Teaparty, it lapped against the hulls of slaveships in the second largest center of the American trade. Yet when the US celebrates its Colonial Secession heritage, none of these undeniable historical Facts are mentioned. No one seeks to heap shame upon the Colonial Heritage celebrators. Betsy Ross' 13-star US flag representing 13 slaveholding and 11 slavetrading states is waved without challenge, and the heritage celebrations go on. ] American Pioneer / Wild West heritage: EVERY star in the US flag up to 1899's 44 stars represents a state founded by whites who invaded American Indian lands and killed those people in a Genocidal war to take their land from them. According to modern historians (based on archeological evidence), the Native-American population had been reduced by about 90 (that's NINETY) percent. If that doesn't qualify as a Genocidal war, what does? All over the US, women and children were deliberately murdered along with the men. Bluecoated US soldiers repeatedly gave conquered Indian tribes blankets which were deliberately infected with the Smallpox virus. That is biological warfare, added onto the genocide. Yet when the US celebrates its Pioneer / Wild West heritage, none of these undeniable historical Facts are mentioned. The US flag representing 44 Genocidal states waves unchallenged. Speaking of "hurt feelings" among an offended minority, don't you wonder about the feelings of many Native-Americans when they see it? But their voter- population is few, and they have no powerful NAANAP (Natioal Association for the Advancement of Native American People). Native-American heritage: It is well-known among historians that a very large number of American Indian tribes enslaved (for life) their captured enemies from other tribes. After contact (around 1670) with slaveowning whites (in the North, South, and Midwest), a significant number of Native American tribesmen also owned Negro slaves. Yet when the slaver tribes celebrate their heritage today, these historical Facts are not mentioned. No one tries to heap shame upon the Heritage celebrants and their Heritage symbols are not attacked. African-American heritage: Question - Who actually enslaved more Negroes than anyone else? And who actually SOLD more Negro slaves than anyone else? Answer: African Negro tribes. It is now acknowledged (at least by some) that the kidnapping of Negroes by white slavers on the African coast is mostly a myth comfortable to some persons. Why inflame powerful African tribes when they are quite happy to sell you some of their slaves? Like certain Native-American tribes, captured enemies were enslaved by neighbor tribes, but the practice was more frequent (and numerous) than in America. An African chief's political rivals were often sold into slavery, as were "opponents" of any kind, not just enemy tribesmen and their women and children. The breadth and frequency of this practice statistically indicates Alex Haley (or an ancestor) may well have fabricated the "Roots" story of the white-slaver kidnapping of Kunta Kinte to avoid exposing the very embarrassing fact about who did BY FAR THE MOST enslaving and selling of Negroes. On April 30th 2000 the Richmond VA Times- Dispatch newspaper ran a long story about a ceremony held on April 29th, in which Negro representatives from the African nation of Benin apologized for its major role in the Negro Slave Trade. Now please note: The story starts with "Along a tranquil stretch of [Virginia's] James River marred by a shameful past, Africans, African-Americans, and descendants of Confederate Soldiers joined yesterday to try to heal the wounds of slavery. The groups participated in a ceremony that cast light, and condemnation, on two LITTLE-PUBLICIZED [my capitalization] horrors of History -- Africans' role in sending slaves to the Americas, and [the USA's] role in receiving and exporting slaves. Dignitaries from the West African nation of Benin, a land where Africans once dealt fellow Africans BY THE MILLIONS [my capitalization] to white slavetraders, apologized for their nation's role. "We cry for forgiveness and reconciliation," said Luc Gnacadga, Benin's [Negro] Minister of Environment and Housing. "The slave trade is a shame, and we do repent for it." ... Benin was called Dahomey in the 17-1800s, and it was a major supplier for white exporters shipping from what was called the African Slave Coast. By some [historical] accounts [not "claims"], more than 3 million [Negroes] were [sold into slavery]. ... [The ceremony was also] addressed by Robert W. Barbour, Commander of the Virginia Division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.' As in the cases of the above-listed Heritages, none of these undeniable historical Facts are mentioned when African-Americans celebrate their African cultural heritage and display its symbols (African banners and clothing). They are not made to feel shameful for celebrating it. Their African historical clothing and emblems are not proclaimed shameful and banned, etc, etc. etc. Okay, 3 million were sold by Benin/Dahomey (just one of many supplier-nations on the Slave Coast), and the slave population of the CSA was: 3.5 million. I wonder what Alex "Roots" Haley and his modern American "homeys" will say about that? Pardon me, Mr. Haley has been dead for several years, so he can't answer. But his NAACP "homeys" can. Do you hear their silence? Openly-racist Negro city (of Richmond) Councilman Sa'ad El-Amin did say (in response to Va. SCV Commander Barbour's speech at the ceremony), "Before there can be reconciliation there must be acceptance of responsibility." For once I agree with Councilman El-Amin. But the acceptance of responsibility MUST NOT be a one-way street for Confederate Americans to travel. Colonial Pioneer, Wild West, Native-American, and African-American Heritage & History celebrations are somehow totally exempted from shame over slavery and slavetrading in their Cultural homelands. ONLY Confederate-Americans are subjected to a clearly bigoted hate campaign against their Cultural heritage. The politically- and racially-motivated Hypocrisy of it stinks to high Heaven. Almost every state in the United States was founded upon Genocidal warfare and half were originally built using slave labor, so all THOSE State History and Heritage celebrations and symbols (including flags) will logically have to go too ...to be fair and compassionate to the feelings of historically oppressed peoples. JR (JohnReb) <>< member, Sons of Confed. Veterans, Richmond Va OCSA My thanks to JR for the informative bits of historical data lagely ignored by the hypocritical liberal media. Back to Top