Nikki Haley says the Confederate flag was about "service, and sacrifice, and heritage" until Dylan Roof "hijacked" it
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It was a battle flag from Virginia. So yes, technically service to the Confederacy, sacrifice by dying for a lost cause, and heritage if by that you mean keeping things as they were, things in this case being the torture and enslavement of an entire race of people.
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The Confederate flag was never about service, sacrifice or heritage. It's always been a memorial to white supremacy & slavery.
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The Confederate Flag was about—Service (permanent, unpaid, forced), Sacrifice (of labor, children, identities, freedom, lives), & Heritage (slavery was inherited through the mother).
So…technically, Nikki Haley was correct. Although I’m pretty sure this wasn’t her intention.
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The Confederate Flag always was, and still is, about armed rebellion & treason against the United States, carried out for the purpose of retaining slavery & maintaining white supremacy. Everything else is a fig leaf on history and current events. Roof is a product of that hatred.
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It's about racism and slavery.
The Confederate Flag is about "heritage" the way the swastika is about heritage.
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Even Jeff Secessions never went full Lindsey Graham.
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