South Carolina governor calls for Confederate flag to no longer fly over state capitol

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley on Monday said the Confederate flag should be removed from the grounds of the state Capitol, taking a stand on an emotional issue that has sparked sharp debates in the state, and that is a reversal from her own past stance.

“Today we are here in a moment of unity in our state, and without ill will, to say it’s time to move the flag from the Capitol grounds,” Haley said at a press conference in Columbia, S.C., on Monday. “One hundred and fifty years after the end of the Civil War, the time has come.”

The Republican governor, who was flanked by GOP South Carolina Sens. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, said that citizens will be free to fly the flag on their private properties and that she respects people who see it as an emblem of the state’s history and a way to remember ancestors — not a symbol of hate.

“For good and for bad, whether it is on the statehouse grounds or in a museum, the flag will always be a part of the soil of South Carolina,” she said. “But this is a moment where we can say that that flag, while an integral part of our past, does not represent the future of our great state.”

korban dallas wrote:Walmart to stop selling Confederate flag merchandise

Walmart, the country's largest retailer, will remove all Confederate flag merchandise from its stores, the company told CNN Monday.

The announcement is the latest indication that the flag, a symbol of the slave-holding South, has become toxic in the aftermath of a shooting last week at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. Gov. Nikki Haley announced in a Monday afternoon news conference that she supports removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol ground

http://edition.cnn.com/2015/06/22/politics/confederate-flag-walmart-south-carolina/

Caution wrote:Yeah, let's not get carried away with any star-bearing Southern flag. It's a step up from the one it replaced 100 years ago though :-) Now I know that there three "grand divisions" in the state.

Caution wrote:Aww man those colors take me back to collecting cards, Topps used a wild font for 1986 and those Padres always caught my eye.

veya_victaous wrote:the real Rebel flag