(WMBF) A national group is now calling on South Carolina and other states to discontinue license plates featuring the Confederate flag.
In a recent statement, the Council on American-Islamic Relations, or CAIR, urged the Palmetto State, as well as Alabama, Arkansas, Georgia, Louisiana, Tennessee and Virginia, to ban Confederate imagery from being featured on new plates.
“No state should promote a symbol of the traitors who sought to perpetuate slavery and white supremacy,” said Ibrahim Hooper, CAIR’s national communications director. “Every time a confederate flag is placed on a state’s license plate, it is a tacit state endorsement of racism.”
The statement comes after South Carolina Democratic Minority Leader Rep. Todd Rutherford filed a bill that would ban the Confederate battle flag from newly issued plates for members of the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
