It’s time to get rid of Confederate flag

Americans and others who favor freedom of the people should take a big step forward by not paying their respect to Confederate flags.

Burn them or, to say the least, put them in museums where they won’t flutter in the breeze of free people. We’ve had them in places of respect for much too long.

One can only interpret the meaning of their waving as a tribute to slavery and the lack of freedom, which people have.

And that’s not what good people profess nowadays.The Civil War is over. It was fought long ago. The South lost.

And may we never return to thoughts of humans owning other human beings again.

But it took wicked acts of people to make us realize how wrong the South was during those dark days of the mid-18th Century.

Just last week, a 21-year-old white man, Dylann Storm Roof, who seems to be a resolved racist, was accused of shooting and killing nine black people who were praying in a historic black church, the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C.

After the shooting, pictures were revealed of Roof waving a Confederate flag and burning an American flag. How precise can you get in displaying your hatred of freedom and democracy for all people and harboring the evil mind.Since the incident, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley has declared the Confederate flag should be removed from the Statehouse grounds.

This, however, will require a two-thirds super majority in both legislative houses.

Haley urged the state House and Senate to debate the issue no later than this summer. If it’s not done by then, she will call a special session and force them to resolve it.

Some of the state’s legislators, however, have suggested it be moved from atop the state capitol to the state-run Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum, which sounds like a good place for it.

Incidentally, Louisiana drivers are allowed to have a picture of the Confederate flag on their license plates. We need to get rid of that option.

At any rate, racism is an evil that helps to divide people in a world that needs to be more united. And with the closeness in which we live these days, if we don’t want to live peacefully together, we may not be together for very long.