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Related: About this forumSC governor candidate Catherine Templeton's 'proud of the Confederacy' remarks stir controversy
COLUMBIA — Catherine Templeton made waves in her first public forum as gubernatorial candidate by saying she is “proud of the Confederacy" and pledged “we’re not going to rewrite history” by removing Confederate monuments.
Templeton's comments late Tuesday upset African-American leaders in the state, who are still stung by the racially-charged mass shooting at a Charleston church two years ago and the vicious fight to remove the Confederate battle flag from the S.C. Statehouse grounds.
“I don’t think she understands the diversity we have in South Carolina and that we’re not all a bunch of flag-waving yahoos,” said Joe Darby, the AME church’s presiding elder over the Beaufort district. “When you elevate the Confederacy, you stomp on the memories of those who were subjugated, the slaves. She’s stomping on my ancestors. If she’s proud of her heritage over nine lives, it’s a shame.”
Templeton, a former two-time state agency head running in her first campaign, spoke Tuesday at a Republican town hall held in Pickens County, a conservative area bordering North Carolina and Georgia with the state's smallest percentage of African Americans.
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ExciteBike66
(2,692 posts)get the red out
(13,683 posts)It shows that she has a serious lack of character.
Phoenix61
(17,995 posts)No one is asking for anybody to rewrite history, rather, they are asking for it to be written accurately. Honoring those who fought for the right to continue to enslave their fellow men, women, and children is just wrong.
Girard442
(6,529 posts)Absent the Confederacy's treasonous rebellion, those people would have likely lived out full lives.
I'd have a hard time being proud of 600,000 murders. Maybe that's just me.