Nikki Haley: Dylann Roof 'hijacked'
Confederate flag meaning
Associated Press,
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Posted By: Ribicon,
12/8/2019 10:42:44 AM
Former South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley said in an interview that a man who gunned down nine worshipers at an African American church 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. An interview excerpt 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.
Reply 1 - Posted by:
dirtyjersey 12/8/2019 10:55:29 AM (No. 256314)
No, this is Haley starting the race wars to help defeat Trump. Trump is polling 30% among minorities, and Dems can’t win with those numbers.
They will get a bunch of morons to rally around the confederate flag, and paint all trump supporters as racist.
Never trust a Bush fan. Never.
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Reply 2 - Posted by:
Proud Texan 12/8/2019 11:06:47 AM (No. 256319)
Haley is correct about what the Confederate flag means to a lot of people. Those who think it represents racism and hatred are simply fools.
Slavery was in the north and in the south. The confederate flag stood for states rights as defined in the constitution for many.
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Reply 3 - Posted by:
FunOne 12/8/2019 11:10:17 AM (No. 256322)
The Confederacy is a proud part of the history of the South. As the first state to secede from the union, South Carolina has a strong link to that heritage, in spite of the liberals and their attempt to associate the flag with white supremacy. Hailey made her decision to degrade that heritage, and she has to live with that choice. People wanting to remove Confederate symbols are no different than those who would advocate the burning of books that they don't like.
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Reply 4 - Posted by:
Chuzzles 12/8/2019 11:25:49 AM (No. 256328)
Nikki Haley will never ever be president. She is too biased, racist, bigoted and just plain illiterate when it comes to what it means to be American. She believes in the magic dirt theory, and there is no such thing as magic dirt. She has no business in politics, and we have long memories about our history Nikki. You are an America trasher and like Obama, that is all you will ever be to most of us out here who cherish our history.
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No, it never meant "treason and racial hatred", that is ridiculous. The Southern States suffered over 600,000 casualties (young healthy men) and untold damage and you are trying to tell me that it was done to protect slavery; that's also ridiculous. Look at the flag---it has stars, stripes and is red, white and blue. And, there was more than one Confederate Flag, all containing those colors.
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Reply 6 - Posted by:
DVC 12/8/2019 11:47:36 AM (No. 256351)
Interesting. She dumped the flag instantly at the first bit of political pressure.....now she seems to have realized how bad a choice that was.
The Confederate battle flag is not a racist symbol any more than the Stars and Stripes are a racist symbol. Both have been used by bad people, but both are also used by good people.
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Reply 7 - Posted by:
Southron 12/8/2019 11:51:57 AM (No. 256359)
Nikki Haley was a mediocre Governor who gained national attention with a symbolic act - removing something that was unpopular with the mainstream media - the Confederate Flag. But opinions about the flag have changed as the power of the MSM has weakened.
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Reply 8 - Posted by:
MissMann 12/8/2019 12:33:24 PM (No. 256403)
The Crips have hijacked the color blue and the Bloods have hijacked red--has Nikki removed those colors from her wardrobe? Wouldn't want to be associated with violent gangs, right?
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Reply 9 - Posted by:
DVC 12/8/2019 12:56:59 PM (No. 256434)
Excellent point, #9. I normally carry a blue bandana in my pocket, but it is just a color I like and just a handkerchief of a different color, not any sort of a gang symbol. More a symbol of old American standard items of use.
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Reply 10 - Posted by:
TXknitter 12/8/2019 12:59:00 PM (No. 256436)
Yet she led the way to its REMOVAL from the Capitol building, #2. Nikki is just what Ed Rollins said on Lou Dobbs. Dhe is a selfish intensely ambitious politician who IS running for President.
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Reply 11 - Posted by:
chumley 12/8/2019 1:12:00 PM (No. 256442)
Too late to repair the damage Nikki. You buckled.
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Y’all she be just reinventin herself, polishing up the tu rd so to speak.
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Reply 13 - Posted by:
Catherine 12/8/2019 3:18:28 PM (No. 256512)
Like # 2 said, the south fought the war for state's rights, not slavery per se. Only 10% of southerners owned slaves. My mother was a little girl in the 1920's-30's. She said she remembered old men sitting on porches reminiscing how they were down to throwing rocks at the yankees around the time the war ended. I understand why some don't like the flag but removing it won't change history and without history, what else do we have as a nation.
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Reply 14 - Posted by:
Timber Queen 12/8/2019 4:43:31 PM (No. 256551)
#15 - My Dad, born in 1918, told me something similar. His memory was of the Civil War veterans marching in parades behind their old battle flags and regimental banners. He grew up in Dayton, Ohio and his boyhood home was down the street from the Wright brother's bicycle shop. He would often see middle-aged Orville walk the streets of Dayton.
This is how history lives and connects us to the great events of the past. Through my father's boyhood memories I feel connected to aged Civil War veterans and the men who were first to be successful in flight. Its so important to tell the family stories for that is where history lives.
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OP nailed it. Haley will never get my vote for anything.
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Reply 16 - Posted by:
RuckusTom 12/8/2019 6:48:04 PM (No. 256608)
"Nikki Haley: Dylann Roof 'hijacked' Confederate flag meaning". Yes, Nikki. He did. And because this one nut 'hijacked' Confederate flag meaning, you decided to punish those who haven't 'hijacked' Confederate flag meaning.
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Reply 17 - Posted by:
49 Ford 12/8/2019 9:10:12 PM (No. 256670)
Remember, Haley did not initiate the removal of the flag from the capitol premisis on her own, out of some hostility toward southern history. She did it to accommodate a unique political environment suddenly created by a lunatic.
IMO Haley did the right thing. She was the governor of a 21st century American state and had to consider the sensibilities of large swathes of people. To allow herself to be tarred (and she certainly would have been) as a defender of the old confederacy would have done the modern conservative cause no good whatever.
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Nikki Haley personally started the Taliban-style removal of Confederate monuments across the South in a bit of shameless pandering that legitimized the idea that the flag represents white supremacy. She got her 15 minutes of MSM adulation, but the move made her absolutely toxic to many voters. Here, she tries a bit of nuance because she likes the power and trappings of public office, and wants back in.