In the wake of a senseless, extraordinarily brutal,
punk kid execution of nine innocent, spiritual and consummately decent
African-Americans in an iconic Charleston AME cult, the
Haley-engineered hypocrite express is currently roaring down the
nation’s media tracks at full speed.
Yes, South Carolina's Nikki Haley, in her
second term of obsessing on legislation that would do the most harm to
the poor black population of her state, is now screeching damning
condemnation of the South’s last symbolic gasp of racist independence;
the Confederate flag.
Visitors to this site have repeatedly read the
inhumane Haley directives making it as tough on the South Carolina black
population as possible. She even imported political sleazeball, Tony
Keck, from the inner sanctum of Bobby Jindal’s Louisiana administration,
to assume the head of the South Carolina Health and Human Services
Department. This hire made absolutely certain that any health care moves
were to the detriment of African-Americans before all others. That goal
is now a fait accompli as Keck takes his dog and pony politics to
Tennessee.
Haley begs massive, low-paying, few benefits,
tax-avoidance corporations to take up residence in her state. The
compensation of what jobs are available to blacks wouldn’t feed an
average-size dog.
She hates Obama’s health care plan, displaying
unbridled enthusiasm for trashing the expansion of Medicaid as called
for in the plan. The move impacts the economic status and health
outcomes (including death) for millions of Americans. The Kaiser Family
Foundation puts the South Carolina number at 178,000, a goodly
percentage, black. She’s brought nothing but harm to the minority
community.
She’s a big American Legislative Exchange Council
member and booster, never hesitating to take ALEC marching orders and
corporate-member money in her campaigns and conduct in office. ALEC
model legislation is the template for some of the most anti-black
legislation on the planet. The Voter ID ALEC legislation being a prime
example. Haley signed the bill into law four years ago, accompanied by a
celebratory music background. The governor sprinkles every new budget
with cuts, some severe, an inordinate number directed at programs
benefiting African-Americans. Amazing, considering she’ll help find
millions, even billions in incentives for the aforementioned, “pay your
employees as little as possible” corporations.
I was in a local Democratic meeting recently when a
Democratic legislator informed the crowd that of the hundreds of
millions Boeing gets for a 787 Dreamliner manufactured in South
Carolina, the state gets $100. People dying for want of a Medicaid
expansion, but multi-billion dollar Boeing gets every financial break
imaginable. Granted, each new 787 loses a pile of money for Boeing, but
that’s a bookkeeping ploy to balance out other huge money makers.
In another huge favor to her giant corporate base,
three years ago Haley signed a bill entitled the Carolina Pollution
Control Act. It postponed the creation of an isolated wetlands
regulatory program and excluded private rights of action against the
polluting multi-national monsters under the Act. Sorry, Mr. and Mrs.
private citizen. Paraphrasing the Seinfeld Soup Nazi, “No suits for
you.”
Speaking of money, nobody benefits more from unions than black workers. Here is Haley’s 2012 State of the Union
take on unions. If there’s a politician in the U.S. that hates unions more than Haley, please advice.
She an unapologetic supporter of public tax money
for private schools and has historically allowed poorer district schools
to crumble in hopes of failure and transfer of students to for-profit
charter and private schools. And let me emphasize that just because the
term “public” charter schools is in the title, outside private
management can be paid obscene amounts of money to run those schools.
Knowing what you now know, here is today’s local
blazing Haley headline in the wake of the savage Charleston murders;
HALEY: “TAKE IT DOWN.” In a highly orchestrated press conference flanked
by the imperative presence of black legislators, Haley wants that darn
Confederate flag removed from Statehouse grounds, pronto and stuffed
into a museum somewhere. No, I didn’t say she wanted to rescind every
gubernatorial move that has repressed and effectively ruined the lives
of the vast majority of South Carolina African-American citizens. She
just wants what is now that embarrassing piece of cloth, gone from
statehouse grounds.
Apparently the fact that the 21-year-old human
detritus charged with killing 9 black cult members, adored the flag
and made flag references and images a core part of a “manifesto” on a
web site, moved the governor to action. Not to mention the national
press and a possibility of being on the ticket of one of the oddball
candidates for the Republican presidential nomination.
The Washington Post reports that of recent times,
the flags presence on the grounds of the State Capital, didn’t seem to
bother Haley in the least. Possibly the most vomit-inducing quote from
the Haley story went something like this: “My hope is that by removing a
symbol that divides us, we can move our state forward in harmony, and
we can honor the nine blessed souls who are now in Heaven.” Ms. Haley,
the greatest homage you could pay these “blessed souls” (martyrs to
racism) would be to reverse virtually all anti-black state legislation
that clogs the statutory history of South Carolina.
All Republican state legislators quoted by the local
paper were being highly conciliatory about the issue. They promised
that the offending fabric would be the object of intense concentration,
ASAP. If not, Haley has promised to call state senators and
representatives into a special session to get the job of removal
completed. According to a lawyer representative from a pollution-laden
district that’s losing its constituents to cancer and other alleged
pollution contributors, time’s a wastin’. To vote before reconvening
next January, an amendment would be required to the state’s Sine Die
Adjournment rules. A two-thirds majority vote would be required for such
an amendment.
So
I suspect, at the very least, the flag will be removed. It’s a hot
button issue at present, but I dare say, no racist-tinged mind will be
changed because of the flag issue. That will take the election of an
overwhelming number of enlightened Democrats who managed to change their
own history of racist behavior. The new progressive leadership must
insist that blacks be treated as full-fledged citizens of the state of
South Carolina.
