"You can't put a flag on the subject's left — especially a U.S. senator in a federal courthouse," said Shirley Shepard, who offered to repaint the flag in the portrait or do a new portrait from scratch.
Fifteen years ago, the flag was the subject of a gritty partisan struggle in the state house and an economic boycott by the NAACP.
After the devastating murder of nine African-American parishioners at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina this spring, the Confederate flag was the subject of a heated national debate.
Mr. Bush's stance that only South Carolinians should determine the fate of the flag is not the subject of the debate.
The flag campaign was the subject of conversation over grilling vegetables and chicken for dinner at the Lumumba Center in late June.
Not surprisingly, Dobbs is waving the First Amendment flag to change the subject, which is not about disagreement on immigration policy, and has nothing to do with free speech.
You know... this nonsense that he writes, "Not surprisingly, Dobbs is waving the First Amendment flag to change the subject"... Well first, Roberto, don't be a bozo anymore than you can help.
When Timpson countered that she did not think Kaepernick was disrespecting the flag, "David changed the subject and said, 'Well, you people need to stop killing each other, we need people to bring up the black community,'" she recalled, according to The Guardian.
Although a majority of House members supported taking down the flag, the legislation was subject to a prolonged debate this week, with defenders of the flag proposing dozens of amendments that would have stalled passage of the bill and kept the flag flying past Friday.
The flag had recently been the subject of controversy, since its depiction of the Cross of St George was seen by many colonists as a symbol of papacy, and John Endecott had notoriously cut the cross out of the Salem militia's flag.
