Meghan McCain says Nikki Haley's Confederate flag comments will 'haunt' her
Former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley sparked controversy this month when she seemingly contradicted her position on the Confederate flag and made comments shining it in a positive light. On "The View" Thursday, the co-hosts condemned her position.
Haley, who was also the governor of South Carolina, called for the removal of the Confederate flag from the state's capitol building in the wake of the June 17, 2015, massacre at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. On that day, nine people attending a bible study were killed by Dylann Roof, who was sentenced to death in 2017, making it the first instance in which the death penalty was given for a federal hate crimes case. The confederate flag was removed from the state capitol on July 10, 2015.
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Earlier this month, however, Haley said in an interview with The Blaze's "The Glenn Beck Podcast" that the Confederate flag was about "service, and sacrifice and heritage" until the Charleston Church shooting "hijacked everything that people thought of" the flag.
Haley has defended her position on the Confederate flag, and on Wednesday, she wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post asserting that her position on the flag "has been constant" and that it is America's culture that has changed.
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Before Dylan Roof - from the time of LBJ.
Symbol of the White race and White supremacy.
