When Mayor Nutter was inaugurated as the mayor of Philadelphia over seven years ago, he celebrated at the afterparty by busting out the Sugar Hill Gang’s Rapper’s Delight, which was certainly something most politicians would not do.
He was at it again over the July 4th holiday:
The performance is a bit more polished now.
That’s how we roll in Philly. But, down in South Carolina, things are a bit different.
The South Carolina legislature is expected on Monday to take up the fate of the Confederate battle flag that flies on the State House grounds, responding to demands that it be removed after the June 17 massacre of nine people at Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston…
…The debate will take place amid tight security after episodes of vandalism and hostile altercations between the flag’s supporters and opponents. Separately, law enforcement officials have been investigating threats against certain legislators.
The revival of the flag issue has also led to lawmakers’ being besieged by calls and emails, many of them aggressive.
“I’ve been threatened (non-physically) more this week than my whole life combined,” Representative Neal A. Collins, a Republican of Pickens County, posted on Twitter on Wednesday. “Civil discourse anyone?”
Two Americas, the future and the past.
