1954S Brown Vs Board Of Education Essay — страница 2

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being. April 26th marks the Alabama state Confederate Memorial day, on which the state flew the Confederate flag. Because of the offense taken by the Confederate flag, state government has considered replacing it with another flag of Confederate that looks more like the American flag. (Leopold) ~~However, none of these feasible solutions were carried out. An understanding cannot be reached as to why these proposals have all failed. A resolution such as lowering the flag from the statehouse and placing it on the lawn of the statehouse would still inspire the same feelings of Southern pride, honor Confederate dead, and honor the state’s membership in the confederacy; accomplishing the same goals as flying it above the statehouse. An approachable intention the supporters of the

flag would hold is one of racism. These supporters want to use the flag as a tool to show African-Americans where they came from and where they should remain: as a white person’s slave. ~~Maryland’s Sons of Confederate Veterans is a group of men who are proud of the Confederate flag, so proud that they pardoned the state to issue them special license tags to reward their members with. These tags featured the ever controversial Confederate flag on them and it wasn’t long before complaints of the tags were noted. The state recalled the licenses and a case was filed. Judge Frederic Smalkin wrote his decision in a 20 page document which included a chastising of the state for recalling the lisence tags, saying it violated the First Amendment. Judge Smalkin said “For years the

First Amendment restricted only the actions of the government. It took war—the Civil War—to extend the strictures of the First Amendment to state governments. Without the Civil War, the ghosts of which pervade this case, there would not have been a Fourteenth Amendment, the vehicle through which the Bill of Rights has been applied to the states. “The genius of the Bill of Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment is the protection of minorities from majoritarian tyranny.” ~~The Fourteenth Amendment should protect the members of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans in this case. And the Fourteenth Amendment should protect those who have been offended in the courts ruling of whether or not the flag should remain raised. They are the minority, as they have suffered from the pain

and confusion the controversy’s caused. ~~South Carolina has seemed to find out the hard way that corporations do not like controversy. The New South built it’s revival on attracting big corporations to the town. A representative of South Carolina is pondering the decision to lower the flag, as he was asked by Michelin and BMW to keep the level of controversy low by deconstructing the flag. The corporations both have shown that they would not enjoy doing business in a conflicted area. (Leopold) ~~ Just as corporations aren’t keen on controversy, neither are tourists or convention leaders…South Carolina is into a boycott. In Arizona in 1987, the state governor canceled Martin Luther King Day and this ended up costed the economy about $300 million. Colorado state voters

passed a referendum that nullified local ordinances protecting gay and lesbian from housing and job discrimination in 1992, costing the state about $100 million. The Southern Christian Leadership and a Democratic Party both canceled the conventions they were going to hold in South Carolina pending the Controversy the state is currently holding. Tourists are also extremely important to South Carolina’s economy; they raise $6 billion directly for the state, with black tourists raising $300 million. (Cabell) ~~The Confederate flag’s controversy has divided it’s supporters and opponents—the South Carolina governor in one corner, and the South Carolina senator in the other. David Beasley is a Republic and a strong evangelist who reached his answer to the conflict after reading

the bible and saying a prayer. He went on statewide television to explain to South Carolina, “A flag should be a symbol that unites all of those standing below it. One that every South Carolinian can look up to with respect and admiration.” He also said, “The Klu Klux Klan can misuse it as a racist tool, as it has, and others can misuse it solely as a symbol for racism, as they have.” Beasley desires the flag be lowered because he sees South Carolinians being hurt by the flag, and trying to tell them not to see it only as a symbol for racism. (qtd in Jefferson 22) As a response to Governor Beasley, Republican Senator Glenn McConnel went on statewide television to oppose Beasley’s views. “Do not ask us to turn our backs on our ancestors. For us to surrender at the dome