Monday, June 22, 2015
Just as they were beginning to think she is white
That Hindoo governor of The Palmetto Bug State, Nikki Haley, has called for the removal of the Confederate rag of rebellion flying in front of the state capital.
Flanked by a bipartisan group that included both of her state’s United States senators, Gov. Nikki Haley of South Carolina on Monday called for removal of a Confederate battle flag from the State Capitol grounds, taking sides on a symbol embraced by the white man accused of killing nine black people last week.The resolution that determines how it is being flown is quite detailed and requires a 2/3's vote in each house of the legislature to amend it. But it would only require a simple majority to repeal it. And if you are going to remove it permanently, repeal makes sense. If they don't go this route, you know they are not serious about its removal.
Some in the state will continue to fly the flag on private property, as they have every right to do, “but the State House is different, and the events of this past week call upon us to look at this in a different way,” Ms. Haley said at the State Capitol. “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 something we cannot stand.”
The governor spoke shortly after the White House announced that President Obama would travel to Charleston on Friday to memorialize the church shooting victims.
The last time South Carolina lawmakers waged a serious fight over the flag, in 2000, it was seen as a partisan and ideological issue, with conservatives and Republicans generally defending the flag as a symbol of the state’s history. Yet on Monday, the governor stood with a group of politicians and community leaders that included Senators Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott, and Representative Mark Sanford, the previous governor — all, like Ms. Haley, self-identified conservative Republicans.
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