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Nikki Haley’s Confederate Flag Comments Spark Backlash
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| Contributor | IndyGeorgia |
| Last Edited | IndyGeorgia Dec 07, 2019 08:23pm |
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| Category | Interview |
| Author | Aimee Ortiz |
| News Date | Sunday, December 8, 2019 12:20:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Nikki Haley, the former South Carolina governor, came under criticism on Friday after she told a conservative radio host that the Confederate flag symbolized “service, sacrifice and heritage” for some people in her state until Dylann S. Roof “hijacked” it.
Mr. Roof, the avowed white supremacist who killed nine black parishioners when he opened fire on the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in June 2015, posed with the flag in several photos before the long-planned attack.
Ms. Haley, a Republican and former United States ambassador to the United Nations, made her comments on Friday on the podcast The Glenn Beck Program, hosted by Glenn Beck.
During the podcast interview, she paid tribute to the people targeted by Mr. Roof, calling them “amazing people” before she turned her attention to him and the flag. |
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