The state NAACP annual conference was held in Charlotte over the last four days. The meeting has been held out of South Carolina since the year 2000 as part of the civil rights organization’s sanctions against the state for flying the Confederate flag in front of the statehouse.
Rev. Joe Darby and others approve of that decision. Darby is pastor at Morris Brown AME Church in Charleston, and 1st Vice President of the Charleston NAACP. He previously held that position with the state NAACP.
Darby says the NAACP’s decision is a positive gesture that goes beyond the sanctions.
In a op-ed piece in The State newspaper, Senate leader Glenn McConnell, a Charleston Republican, criticized the ACC(Atlantic Coast Conference) for decisions to sanction South Carolina.
The ACC recently announced a decision to move its 2011-13 baseball championships from Myrtle Beach to North Carolina, saying that the Confederate flag on the Statehouse grounds violates its commitment to diversity and human rights. [click to continue…]
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