Jenny Horne fought back her tears as she made an image of those who were slaughtered, because, of the Confederate flag, the banner that was waved over the dead by a serial killer. In “because” is the word, cause. Jenny is demanding to know what cause does this flag carry forth – after the deliberate slaughter of unarmed men and women. When she tells the body of lawmakers she descends from Jefferson Davis, the stubborn holdouts, get it. It was not Roof, the North, the Democrats, or fellow Southerners who dirtied and defamed that flag, it was the CAUSE for which it still stands – for!
This is what flags are – for. They are banners that represent a cause worth dying for. They bid armed men, and women, to rally around The Flag, to protect, king, country, or church. How about a political party and Democracy? We are a Nation of Laws, an Agreement of Men and Women who own a common cause that unites us, and never divides us! The South Carolina Legislature was deeply divided. The South was not rising again, but, sinking into a muddy, bloody pit – as the world watched. Then, the voice of Jefferson Davis was heard……
“This is not my vision of the future! This is not the cause we died for.”
The image above of Jenny Horne is our Nation’s new flag. Her raised finger pointing to the heavens, is sign language, a truly valiant inSIGNia……..
“Remember God!”
Those nine innocent souls went to church that day, to see God. They had an hour to say goodbye to the world and all the strife it hold dear.
It’s over. The Civil War is over.
Jon Presco
But then Jenny Horne decided that she had had enough.
The 42-year-old lawyer from Summerville stepped up to the podium and delivered words so raw and impassioned they would immediately go viral on the Internet. More important, her four-minute speech would alter the course of the debate, and with it, South Carolina history. The state where the Civil War began, where Strom Thurmond presided as governor, and father of the segregationist Dixiecrats, a state steeped proudly in history and its symbols, disavowed the most freighted symbol of them all, the Confederate flag.
“I cannot believe that we do not have the heart in this body to do something meaningful such as take a symbol of hate off these grounds on Friday,” Horne said, shouting through tears. “For the widow of Sen. Pinckney and his two young daughters, that would be adding insult to injury.”
Horne’s fiery speech, bolstered by her reminder that Confederate president Jefferson Davis was her ancestor, injected new energy into what appeared to be a flagging take-down-the-flag faction and helped pave the way for a 1 a.m. vote to remove the flag from the state capitol.
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Some Democrats have introduced resolutions asking that any Confederate symbols be removed from the U.S. Capitol — where statues of Jefferson Davis and other Southern Civil War-era soldiers are prominently displayed — and a potential vote on the issue was only making matters worse for Republican leaders trying to embrace the national mood following the mass murder last month in a Charleston church.
Instead, Boehner said he was going to establish a working group of Democrats and Republicans to review the issue, both in terms of symbols inside the Capitol and with regard to Confederate issues that would come up in other annual spending bills for the federal government.
“Listen, we all witnessed the people of Charleston and the people of South Carolina come together in a respectful way to deal with, frankly, what was a very horrific crime and a difficult issue with the Confederate flag,” Boehner said Thursday at his weekly news conference. “I actually think it’s time for some adults here in the Congress to actually sit down and have a conversation about how to address this issue. I do not want this to become some political football.”
Rosamond Press 
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