Posted on 07/09/2015 9:38:54 AM PDT by Enlightened1
A spokesman for Gov. Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag will be removed from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds on Friday morning.
Spokesman Chaney Adams says the flag will come down in a ceremony scheduled for 10 a.m. Friday. He did not give any other details.
Haley has said she will sign the bill to remove the flag at 4 p.m. Thursday. The House passed the bill early Thursday. The measure says the flag must be removed within 24 hours of her signature.
The Confederate flag has flown on the Statehouse grounds for 54 years since being put up as a protest of the Civil Rights movement.
Haley and other conservatives didn't begin a push to remove the flag until nine black churchgoers were killed in a church shooting in Charleston by a gunman who police say was motivated by racial hatred.
11:05 a.m.
The House is about to put its members on record on whether Confederate flags can decorate rebel graves in historic federal cemeteries and if their sale should be banned in national park gift shops.
The vote comes after Southern lawmakers complained that they were sandbagged two nights ago when the House voted -- without a recorded tally -- to ban the display of Confederate flags at historic federal cemeteries and strengthen Park Service policy against its sale in gift shops.
It's unclear how the vote will turn out, but momentum against the flag's display on public land has skyrocketed after last month's tragic slaughter at a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina. Early Thursday, the state legislature finalized a bill to remove the flag from Statehouse grounds. Gov. Nikki Haley says she'll sign it Thursday afternoon. It must be removed 24 hours after her signature.
10:25 a.m.
Gov. Nikki Haley says she will sign the bill removing the Confederate flag from the South Carolina Statehouse grounds at 4 p.m. Thursday.
Haley's office didn't immediately say when the flag would be removed, but the bill requires it to happen within 24 hours of her signature.
Moments after Lt. Gov. Henry McMaster ratified the bill, Haley made the announcement that she would sign it in the Statehouse lobby that afternoon. The bill passed the state House at 1 a.m. Thursday.
The Confederate flag has flown on the Statehouse grounds for 54 years since being put up as a protest of the Civil Rights movement.
Haley and other conservatives didn't begin a push to remove the flag until nine black churchgoers were killed in a church shooting in Charleston by a gunman who police say was motivated by racial hatred.
I doubt she’ll be re-elected.
Don’t fret Reno.....just run along to a leftwing site that truly hates the South, America, Christians, etc. You would prob be more comfortable there.
He was a forerunner on dixie flag purging. They were in contact over this latest effort.
It’s the Confederate flag....should Germany allow the Nazi flag to be flown over Berlin despite the fact that Hitler lost the war? Come on, folks. Fly the flag on your own property, not the government’s. The flag is not evil, but it’s not appropriate for government buildings.
SC Gov. Nikki Haley will sign away her political future at 4:00 PM today.
“I am Republican and conservative and, like my friends and everyone I know, I am very happy to see that flag taken down.”
I’m sure you are.
Speaking of white supremacy, do you think we should destroy the monuments in Washington D.C. honoring white supremacists?
“I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races - that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race. I say upon this occasion I do not perceive that because the white man is to have the superior position the negro should be denied everything.”
-Fourth Debate with Stephen A. Douglas at Charleston, Illinois, September 18, 1858 (The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln edited by Roy P. Basler, Volume III, pp. 145-146.) To be absolutely fair - and I want to be fair - we are going to have to have a national dialog about the future of the Lincoln Memorial.
It is NOT the Confederate flag and comparing it to Nazi’s is a violation of Godwin’s Law...comparison fail as well.
South Carolina citizens
Elected that POS.
Wrong!
In your case it has everything to do with white guilt. You once admitted you were dealing with having “racist Southern parents.”
So you keep on trying to work that out as you assist the left in its cultural pogrom.
Your opinion.
“Southern men the thunders mutter!
Northern flags in South winds flutter!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!
Send them back your fierce defiance!
Stamp upon the cursed alliance!
To arms! To arms! To arms, in Dixie!”
Dumb.
Not really, you’re comparing Confederate soldiers to Nazi’s.
Confederates were not in the business of mass murders, war crimes or genocide under the banner of war like the Nazis...
I believe I compared the use of a flag after a war was lost. You infer too much. I have no objection to private use of the flag.
And racism is banished forever! Yay! Utopia is just around the corner!
Way to agree with the hard left assessment of what the flag “represents,” “conservative.”
Nikki say good bye to that thought at 4PM
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