“We know that bringing down the Confederate flag will not bring back the nine kind souls taken from us, nor rid us of the hate and bigotry that drove a monster through the doors of Mother Emanuel that night. Some divisions are bigger than a flag. The evil we saw last Wednesday comes from a place much deeper, much darker.
“But we are not going to allow this symbol to divide us any longer. The fact that people are choosing to use it as a sign of hate is a something we cannot stand. The fact that it causes pain to so many is enough to move it from the Capitol grounds – it is, after all, a Capitol that belongs to all of us.”
— Gov. Nikki Haley during a Monday news conference in which she called for the Confederate flag to move off the Statehouse grounds. Her statement was a quick, sharp turn that followed last week’s massacre of nine church-goers at a prayer meeting at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. Read the governor’s full remarks
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