Nikki Haley, Lindsey Graham Will Call for Removal of Confederate Flag, Sources Say
Meanwhile, political and religious leaders in the state urged lawmakers to vote to remove the flag as early as Tuesday in tribute to the nine people gunned down at a historic black church in Charleston last week. Authorities have said the shooting was a hate crime, and a white supremacist website that may be linked to shooter Dylann Roof shows images that apparently show him holding the flag.
"This act will do something very personal," Charleston Mayor Joe Riley said on Monday.
"Take away Mr. Roof's symbol of misguided idea of racial superiority and bigotry. Take it away from him and all like him and give the front of our state Capitol equally and fairly to every citizen of South Carolina," he said.
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california, texs, and new mexico should remove all mexican flags because those ststes people were treated badly by their overlords while they were mexican territories.
suggest that in the mainstream media nd you willk get howls of ethnic, historical, and cultural suppression...
much like they are trying to do to the southern states who are trying to remember where they came from.
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