THE CONFEDERATE FLAG IS GONE. NOW WE MUST DEAL WITH THE REAL PROBLEMS OF TRUE EQUALITY. THROUGHOUT THE USA.

 

This better not be "The Old Switcheroo. I sure hope the  "Hide the Pea" scam  is not alive and well throughout the land.

 

Hurry, Hurry, step right up. What shell hides the Confederate flag? All bets I win go to my political campaign. Forget that your criminal trial was a farce. Forget that your child goes to a separate but unequal school. Step right up, step right up, Put your money on my table. Find the Confederate flag under the pea.  Forget that the money you are gambling with came from a low paying white owned business built of the sweaty backs of poor people.  

 

Bet you can't find the flag.

 

No doubt that I agree with Governor Haley and the 36 State Senators and 94 House members that voted to take the flag down. However, we must redirect our attention to the real racial problems that did not go away when General Lee surrendered and the Congress passed the 13th, 14th and 15th Amendments. The Flag is only the southern symbol of inequality that has limited equal education, equal justice, and equal economic opportunity. This problem is not a Southern problem, it is a national disgrace.

 

Have your day in the sun. Celebrate the symbolic defeat of Hate over Heritage in the old south. Have your Kumbaya  moments like what originated on the Gullah sea islands of South Carolina.

 

The terrible tragedy at Mother Emanuel and the grace and Christian Spirit of the families of those murdered  deserve more then a bunch of political and clergy photo ops decrying the flag and the final defeat of the symbol of the confederacy 

 

We need to now, building on the momentum unleashed by the tragedy, attack the continuing slave racist mentality of under education, a Justice system that sucks in young black men, and an economic system that welcomes black dollars but not black economic opportunity.  

 

God doesn't play. The heavens and the earth opened up to salute the Godly ways of the families and spirits of the Mother Emanuel Nine. The families and God won't stand for lip service to equality in the south. God demands equality throughout the land.   

 

POSSIBLE SOLUTIONS

 

Education  

In Charleston around 2011 or 12 , when I was active in the quest for equal education the  racial achievement gap existed of 15% to 23%. At that time, with a racially mixed pretty equal population Orange Grove Charter Elementary School has a 1-4%  racial achievement gap. The 94 House Members and the 36 senators need to visit that school.

 

Justice

In my investigations I have investigated five cases of poor men (4 black) serving long sentences for murder. My investigations uncovered questionable Law Enforcement and judicial action.   These 130 state senators and representatives need to look at these cases.

The School to Prison pipeline must be closed off.

 

Equal Economic Opportunity

Walmart, Boeing, Michelin, BMW should increase dramatically the number of black businesses it reinvest some profits with black ownership. The 94 House Members and the 36 senators need to organize the business community.

 

To those friends that have derided me for some comments I made about clergy and politicians, get used to it. You ain't heard nothing yet.