Gov. Nikki Haley's about-face comes just days after authorities
charged Dylann Storm Roof, 21, with murder. The white man appeared in
photos waving Confederate flags and burning or desecrating U.S. flags,
and purportedly wrote of fomenting racial violence. Survivors told
police he hurled racial insults during the attack.
"The murderer now locked up in Charleston said he hoped his actions
would start a race war. We have an opportunity to show that not only was
he wrong, but that just the opposite is happening," Haley said, flanked
by Democrats and Republicans, blacks and whites who joined her call.
"My hope is that by removing a symbol that divides us, we can move
our state forward in harmony, and we can honor the nine blessed souls
who are now in Heaven," Haley said.
The massacre inside the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church
has suddenly made removing the flag — long thought politically
impossible in South Carolina — the go-to position, even for conservative
Republican politicians.
Haley was flanked by Republican U.S. Sen. Lindsey Graham, now running
for president, as well as South Carolina's junior Republican senator,
Tim Scott, and Democratic Rep. Jim Clyburn, both of whom are black.
Within moments, her call was echoed by the Republican Party chairman and
the top GOP lawmaker, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.
Obama’s
true objectives are manifest yet again in this latest rout of attempts
to rein in or impede the Islamic Republic of Iran’s march to nuclear
war. Obama’s jihad against the Jewish state now borders on near-mania.
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