Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley lamented that white supremacist Dylann Roof ― who carried out a shooting rampage at a historically Black church in South Carolina in 2015 ― “hijacked” the meaning of the Confederate flag, claiming it was once about American heritage. “South Carolina fell to our knees when this happened,” Haley told right-wing commentator Glenn Beck in the season finale of his self-titled podcast set. At the time of the massacre at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, Haley was governor of the Palmetto State. “Here is this guy that comes out with his manifesto, holding the Confederate flag, and had just hijacked everything that people thought of. And we don’t have hateful people in South Carolina,” Haley said, before adding that there’s “always the small minority that’s always going to be there.”Continuing, she then asserted that, until the 2015 massacre, the flag — which many associate with the legacy of slavery — represented “service and sacrifice and heritage,” but that after Roof’s murders, “there was no way to overcome it.”

Source: Huffington Post December 06, 2019 19:41 UTC