I demanding to remove the Confederate flag from our state grounds.

This petition is meant to move the South Carolina legislature to action immediately. They state that they will not be in session to address this for seven months. We need to remove the flying of the Confederate flag from being flown on government property in South Carolina NOW, not in seven months.

Silence means complicity in the shooting massacre at Emmanuel AME church in Charleston, South Carolina.

Please take time to contact our local state legislators and demand that this symbol of white supremacy be removed from the South Carolina State House Grounds.

Symbols of hate and racism on state and federal properties (other than in a historic context, such as a museum) give legitimacy to that hate and racism, as seen in Charleston, SC, recently. Neither the states, nor the federal government should be festering that hate by the display of any of these symbols.

My family had been effected by this issue. They had prosecuted my husband last year for a crime he did not commit it was dismissed in court. Now they are re prosecuting him for the same exact case that was dismissed. However all records disappear of him been in court twice last year. Then they arrested me on something they said somebody said I did they say I hit someone with a rock. I was not even in the area at the time. They have no physical evidence such as pictures hospital records the rock nothing just a statement. They aressted me in front of my 3 year old son. While I was going to court to testify against the man who stabbed my husband. After doing research this is a common problem in Antelope Valley. They are been investigated by the ACLU the NAACP but its not enough because it's still happening to people everyday. They need to be STOPED. They need to be forced to conduct legal and full accurate investigations and prosecution. They need someone to look into all of their judges and district attorney convictions and look for errors. The police department need to be watched they plant evidence and cohearse witnesses to lie. A full investigation need to be done on the court and both police departments.

I'm outraged that government entities continue to display the confederate flag--an overt symbol of racism. Start with South Carolina! This must stop now and the only way to stop something in America is to hit those responsible in the pocket book.

I am creating this petition because I believe it is unjust to people of color to have something like this on federal grounds. Being the first thing someone would see walking to the courthouse, the Confederate rock is a sign of oppression and does not make all citizens comfortable going into a court of law. If the Confederate rock was moved off the campus of the University of Missouri in 1975 because of controversy, then does it really make sense to have it placed on the grounds of the courthouse for Boone County? No, it does not--and it needs to be removed.

The Confederate flag represents a failed attempt by traitors who fought and lost against the United States of America. It is a symbol of hate not only of black brothers and sisters, but of all citizens of this great nation. Germany doesn't fly flags with swaztikas and WWII is a lot closer in time than the Civil War.

I am saddened by the recent deaths of 9 citizens in the city of Charleston, South Carolina due to the racial hatred of one individual who proudly displayed his shameful hatred and white supremacist attitude by sporting the confederate flag on his automobile.

I live about an hour from Charleston and have lived in South Carolina for nearly 35 years. The black people of this state deserve to live in peace and security. It is indefensible for the State of South Carolina to continue to promote a symbol of racism, division and and inequality. It is offensive and needs to be put in a museum of history, not publicly displayed as something of which to be proud.

Many have received death threats for voicing their opposition against this symbol of hate, myself included. We will not be terrorized by these people; we stand united as one. Our country has only ONE flag - the AMERICAN FLAG, for which millions have fought and died for - our American Veterans. End the terrorism in our country that this confederate symbol instigates. The time has come to take a firm stand. We have only ONE flag - stand up for the American Flag and those who have fought for it.