Suggestion for a South Carolina flag that can respect their past and show hope for their future.
How about a flag with a black hand, a brown hand, and a white hand on top of one another in the center and a replica of the old Confederate flag in the bottom right hand corner.
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in a South Carolina flag. South Carolina already has a beautiful, historic blue and white state flag, depicting a palmetto tree and crescent, that dates back to the Revolutionary War. Plenty of history, heritage, and pride, minus the racism.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flag_of_South_Carolina
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"The flag of the state of South Carolina has existed in some form since 1775, being based on one of the first Revolutionary War flags.
.....In 1775, Colonel William Moultrie was asked by the Revolutionary Council of Safety to design a flag for the South Carolina troops to use during the American Revolutionary War. Moultrie's design had the blue of the militia's uniforms and the crescent. It was first flown at Fort Johnson.[2]
This flag was flown in the defense of a new fortress on Sullivan's Island, when Moultrie faced off against a British fleet that hadn't lost a battle in a century.
In the 16-hour battle on June 28, 1776, the flag was shot down, but Sergeant William Jasper ran out into the open, raising it and rallying the troops until it could be mounted again. This gesture was so heroic, saving Charleston, South Carolina, from conquest for four years, that the flag came to be the symbol of the Revolution, and liberty, in the state and the new nation.
Soon popularly known as either the Liberty Flag or Moultrie Flag, it became the standard of the South Carolinian militia, and was presented in Charleston, by Major General Nathanael Greene, when that city was liberated at the end of the war. Greene described it as having been the first American flag to fly over the South.
The palmetto was added in 1861, also a reference to Moultrie's defense of Sullivan's Island; the fortress he'd constructed had survived largely because the palmettos, laid over sand walls, were able to withstand British cannons."
