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.
Fuck that!! Come and take it!
I will fly this flag over a rainbow flag all day long.
Where’s the dislike button
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 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.
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!
Keep it up!!!!!!