South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said Monday the Confederate flag should be removed from the grounds of the state capitol, reversing her position on the divisive symbol amid growing calls for it to be removed.
The Republican’s about-face comes after nine black church members were gunned down, allegedly by a young white man who embraced the flag as a symbol of white supremacy.
“150 years after the end of the Civil War, the time has come,” Haley said after rousing applause, surrounded by Democrats and Republican lawmakers. “That flag, while an integral part of the past, does not represent the future of our great state”
The flag has flown in front of the state capitol for 15 years after being moved from atop the Statehouse dome.
U.S. Sens. Lindsay Graham and Tim Scott, an African-American appointed by Haley, were standing with Haley during her announcement. When she finished, she hugged Scott and South Carolina’s only other black congressman, Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn.
Mine has never came down and it will always stand.
I love my confederat flag I fly 3 of them and have stickers on my truck and bike and tool box at work won’t fined any one who loves the south more than me. Not sure if u thought I meant I don’t like the flag but if u did u should read into shit before making yourself look stupid I dislike the fact that these niggers are crying again because my wife is Irish and their ancestors where treated a lot worse for alot longer than blacks and we didn’t start slavery don’t know where that shit came from because they had slave trade long before we grabbed a bunch of them and Africa still has slavery so yea.
Alabama heart of the south. Love my land cotton best place in USA to live. Let our flag fly in peace. If u. Were to see a real CSa solider there ass. Would runn and scream
CSa. Bring it back
U don’t like our southern flag go up north. Be come a Yankee I’m born southern born. True to the south. Yes I’m proud
I have my flag getting ready to hang one in my yard. Dare u to come mess with it.
I will never take any of my flags down. Heritage not hate. If you don’t like our flag get out of the south
Leave it up!!! It’s a reminder what we do when the Feds overstep their power like they so greatly have! Why do you think they want it down? Round 2 will end differently
HELL NO
I WILL NEVER TAKE MY CONFEDERATE FLAG DOWN
They gonna have to peal this off my dead body before i quit flyin its heritage u dumb sum bitches
I vote for you and every other dumb nigger to go pick cotton again like you used to!! The problem in America today is that American Africans have too many rights….like the right to draw a government check because of the working white man….the right to shoot cops and get away with it….and the right to say that the thirteen stars need to come down. Let me tell ypu somethin you black, ignorant, sorry piece of living flesh you dont like it here in America and you dont like the Confederate flag? Then load a boat and get the hell out of my country!! Take yourself and all of your complaining gorilla looking friends with you when you go!! White people rise up and put these big lip blue gums back where they belong…in a field….or swingin from a tree!!
Up it shall stay
Keep it flying
Fuck that!! Come and take it!
I will fly this flag over a rainbow flag all day long.
Where’s the dislike button
It ain’t coming down. I will continue fly the flag of the Confederate States and I believe in a government where the states have more power then the central government. As you see today our government has become nothing more than a military dictatorship and continuously attempts to undue and destroy our freedoms.
It’s the South not racism. Goddamn people are pussies.
Itll fly till i die!
My flag will never come down no matter what!
Thanks for the new wallpaper. FLY high and proud!
Keep it up!!!!!!
HE;LL NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO
It will never come down!
Keep it up yeeyee #Southernpride
keep it up
Never!
Bullshit!
No
#heritage #nothate
No.