The former governor of South Carolina said that the flag had meant “service and sacrifice and heritage” to some.
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in an interview that a man who gunned down nine worshipers at an African American church in her state in 2015 “hijacked” the ideals many connected to the Confederate battle flag.
Haley told conservative political commentator and Blaze TV host Glenn Beck that the flag had meant “service and sacrifice and heritage” to some.on social media Friday drew criticism from many who said the flag represents treason and racial hatred. As governor, following the murders at the church in Charleston, Haley openly backed removal of the flag that had flown over the South Carolina Statehouse.
In the Beck interview, Haley, a former United Nations ambassador for President Trump, praised the people who were murdered by Dylann Roof as “amazing people” who loved their church and community. Then she discussed Roof, an avowed white supremacist who had appeared in online photos with the flag.“And here is this guy that comes out with this manifesto holding the Confederate flag, and had just hijacked everything that people thought of — and we don’t have hateful people in South Carolina.
Critics included state Sen. Marlon Kimpson. “I find these comments ignorant of history and the facts,” he said on Twitter.saying she stands by her 2015 call to remove the flag. She included a link to her 2015 remarks backing removal of the flag, saying it was revered by many in the state, while many consider it “a deeply offensive symbol of a brutally oppressive past.”
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