{"id":4114,"date":"2015-07-11T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2015-07-11T19:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/?p=4114"},"modified":"2015-07-11T18:34:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-11T23:34:23","slug":"a-look-back-at-three-weeks-that-changed-south-carolina-how-deeply-remains-to-be-seen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/11\/a-look-back-at-three-weeks-that-changed-south-carolina-how-deeply-remains-to-be-seen\/","title":{"rendered":"A look back at three weeks that changed South Carolina"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emanuel.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-4118 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emanuel-682x1024.jpg\" alt=\"emanuel\" width=\"560\" height=\"841\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emanuel-682x1024.jpg 682w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emanuel-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/emanuel.jpg 853w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston&#8217;s Emanuel Church ignited a renewed resolve to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina&#8217;s State House grounds, something the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a> committed to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/point\/9909\/p04.html\">20 years ago<\/a> at its founding conference. At a rally organized just days after the murders, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">Network<\/a> Director Brett Bursey addressed the crowd of nearly two thousand, asking the assembled to become part of a social movement.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/arjMbqCi7UI?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/P13T1PWQH6w?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>As lawmakers in special session deliberated the fate of the flag in the SC State House, citizens gathered outside in the blistering heat to demand action. The handful of Confederate supporters there got an earful.<br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yEiRfWqBRRA?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>On July 4, hundreds gathered to rally for the third time to demand lawmakers remove the Confederate flag from the State House grounds. Kevin Gray spoke for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scpronet.com\">SC Progressive Network<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VngqxVVTDKQ?rel=0\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The racially motivated tragedy in Charleston&#8217;s Emanuel Church ignited a renewed resolve to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina&#8217;s State House grounds, something the SC Progressive Network committed to 20 years ago at its founding conference. At a rally &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/2015\/07\/11\/a-look-back-at-three-weeks-that-changed-south-carolina-how-deeply-remains-to-be-seen\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[142,260,258,134,261,222,87,44,120],"class_list":["post-4114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-network-newsevents","tag-brett-bursey","tag-charleston-9","tag-confederate-flag","tag-gov-nikki-haley","tag-kevin-alexander-gray","tag-modjeska-simkins","tag-sc-politics","tag-sc-progressive-network","tag-video-becci-robbins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4114"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4125,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4114\/revisions\/4125"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scpronet.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}