Taking down the battle flag

"Taking the flag down without changing the policies is not enough. Yes, we want the Confederate flag down, should've never have been up.

But now Governor Haley and them that were for the flag are against the flag and I said to her that she only knew me from looking out the window protesting, she said "Oh I would have hugged you if you come inside."

We don’t just want a hug. We want to deal with voting rights, police reform, we still have not gone to trial on the [Walter] Scott case in this state. There's no hate crime bill in this state. We still must deal with Medicaid.

I think that the reality is, that the climate that this [Dylann Roof] young terrorist felt justified in, is still among us." - Rev Al Sharpton, National Action Network

Confederate States of America (1861–1865) succeeded from the United States after the election of Abraham Lincoln in 1860 because he ran on a platform that opposed the expansion of slavery.

In the 1960s, a battle flag of the Confederate States was raised again in defense of school segregation and resistance to other initiatives to guarantee the civil rights and voting rights of more Americans.

“So we want to have a conversation about race in this country and the foundations of white supremacy and racism. It starts in South Carolina and it ends in the ideology of white supremacy that permeates our nation today with the southernization of American politics.” -Kevin Alexander Gray, South Carolina civil right activist

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