[Previous story, posted at 4:19 p.m. EDT]. I am also surrounded by former governors who put their name on a letter… put their support together to say, yes while we have been a part of South Carolina’s past, we want to see this part of South Carolina’s future in the right direction… so I thank everybody who is with me today.
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Governor Haley is another one of the many officials who had been calling for the flag to be taken down.
Yet he won’t be at Friday’s flag lowering.
The House of Representatives voted 94-20 early Thursday to remove it.
A couple weeks ago, removing the flag would have been unimaginable. Speaking to NBC’s Today before the debate, she said, “When something like this happens, you reflect, and you say, ‘Have we changed enough?'”. “I would like to think that my remark helped change the course of the debate”. “For almost 15 years we have specifically protested the flag by not allowing states like South Carolina to host pre-selected NCAA championships”.
NAACP president Cornell William Brooks said Thursday that the church massacre last month and the “brutality of this moment spoke to the country in ways that a boycott alone would not do”.
As the calls for the flag’s removal mounted, Haley changed her position on the flag and called for it to come down. To them, it’s a racist symbol that represents a war to uphold slavery and, later, a battle to oppose civil rights advances. Only 32 percent now believe the flag constitutes as a legitimate symbol of Southern pride. Clementa Pinckney, the pastor of Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal church, who was gunned down as his wife and daughter locked themselves in an office.
“What exactly is the tradition of the Confederate battle flag that we’re supporting?”
Horne had grown tired of one new proposed amendment after the next to the clean bill handed to the House by the Senate.
Late Wednesday, Rep. Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) offered an amendment to undo the voice vote and to continue the practice of flying the Confederate flag at certain federal cemeteries.
Hogan, a Republican, said only about 150 people would be affected by recalling Sons of Confederate Veterans license plates, which have the image of the Confederate flag. Dig up the state flower bed. “They could have established other sites”. Palazzo and his supporters said they would vote against the Interior Department spending bill if it continued to include the ban. And she was still bereft.
The contentious debate over the symbolism of the Confederate battle flag unexpectedly reached the floor of the USA House of Representatives on Thursday. “We can no longer afford to fly a flag on the Statehouse that divides us”.
Republican Rep. Jonathon Hill said hours after the House vote Thursday that he’s happy no move has been made to remove any monuments from the Statehouse grounds along with the flag.
“For the widow of Sen”. He was among those killed. Then, Rep. Horne took the podium.
“I support what’s going on in South Carolina with the removal of the [Confederate] flag from [the statehouse]”, he said.
The NCAA released a statement on the issue, praising South Carolina lawmakers for taking action.
Legislators had received death threats over their potential votes on the flag, CNN affiliate WOLO reported. “I am so thankful this day is here to see it come down”.
The flag has flown for 54 years at the capitol of the first state to secede from the United States, and the state where the Confederacy fired the first shots of the Civil War, in Charleston. We just reopened a couple of days ago the old Senate chamber where George Washington resigned his commission. “This day is testament to the power of love and unity and grace”.
It will be taken to the “relic room” of a military museum in Columbia, the state capital.
Others said the flag is indeed a divisive symbol.
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The flag was transferred to its current location on the capitol grounds in 2000.
