Videos |Governor Nikki Haley Signs Bill to Take Down the Confederate Flag & IT IS DOWN!

Posted on July 9, 2015 by rikyrah

The flag is DOWN!

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NINE PENS used to sign the bill to removed the confederate flag in honor of the the nine massacred in Mother Emanuel AME Church

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South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signs Senate Bill 897 into law, Thursday, July 9, 2015, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. The law enables the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds more than 50 years after the rebel banner was raised to protest the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signs Senate Bill 897 into law, Thursday, July 9, 2015, at the Statehouse in Columbia, S.C. The law enables the removal of the Confederate flag from the Statehouse grounds more than 50 years after the rebel banner was raised to protest the civil rights movement. (AP Photo/John Bazemore)

We’ll post another thread when that flag comes down. It’s not down yet.

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61 Responses to Videos |Governor Nikki Haley Signs Bill to Take Down the Confederate Flag & IT IS DOWN!

  4. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 12:40 pm
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  5. yahtzeebutterfly says:
    July 10, 2015 at 11:52 am

    No https://t.co/ajW1DEZ0dm— Bree Newsome (@BreeNewsome) July 10, 2015

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  6. yahtzeebutterfly says:
    July 10, 2015 at 11:43 am

    Wish we could confine the KKK, White Supremacy, racial hatred, etc. to a Pandora’s box and put that in a museum.

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  7. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 10:32 am
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  8. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 10:31 am
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  9. dande says:
    July 10, 2015 at 10:24 am

    All I can say is OH HAPPY DAY!!!!!!!!

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  10. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 10:01 am

    President Obama: Removal of confederate flag from statehouse grounds “a signal of good will and a meaningful step towards a better future”.

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  11. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:53 am
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  12. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:44 am
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  13. Ametia says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:25 am

    Video added of flag removal!

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  14. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:24 am
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  15. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:21 am
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  16. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:16 am

    I have tears. #TheFlagIsDown

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  17. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:13 am
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  18. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:13 am
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  20. Ametia says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:11 am

    fly your rag on your own time. it does NOT belong at the capitol.

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  21. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:08 am

    Take It Down! Take down THAT flag.

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  22. Ametia says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:07 am

    Where’s BREE NEWSOME? Climb that pole and take that RAG down NOW!

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  23. Ametia says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:04 am

    TAKE IT DOWN, TAKE IT DOWN, TAKE IT DOWN!

    TAKE THAT RAG DOWN!

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  24. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 9:02 am
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  26. Ametia says:
    July 10, 2015 at 8:50 am

    Is any one watching the flag removal?

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  27. Ametia says:
    July 10, 2015 at 7:45 am

    South Carolina’s losing battle to rewrite its racist history
    By Eugene Robinson Opinion writer July 9 at 8:22 PM

    For most of my life, a flag representing white supremacist violence against black people flew at the capitol of my native state. It is a very big deal that this emblem of hatred and oppression is finally coming down.

    Gov. Nikki Haley (R) was expansive after the state legislature finished action early Thursday on a bill consigning the Confederate battle flag to the museum displays where it belongs: “It is a new day in South Carolina, a day we can all be proud of.” I have to entertain the notion that she may be right.

    http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/south-carolinas-losing-battle-to-rewrite-its-history/2015/07/09/fe75c27a-2673-11e5-aae2-6c4f59b050aa_story.html?wpisrc=nl_opinions&wpmm=1

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  28. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 2:37 am
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  30. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 10, 2015 at 1:48 am
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  31. eliihass says:
    July 9, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    My other prayer now is that Ms Nikki doesn’t pull some other way worse crap to reinforce her commitment to, get back in the good graces of, and re-burnish her bona fides with the currently pissed-off racists who elected her their token in the first place..

    Hate to say it but Nikki hasn’t exactly exuded integrity prior to this singular good act…

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  32. yahtzeebutterfly says:
    July 9, 2015 at 8:57 pm

    It’s not just that flag that needs to come down, but ALL of the damaging, hateful baggage it represents.

    That baggage needs to be searched, thrown out, and never be allowed to resurface now or in the future.

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  33. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 9, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    To donate:
    Mother Emanuel Hope Fund.
    C/O City of Charleston
    P.O. Box 304
    Charleston, SC 29402
    Text ‘prayforcharleston’ to (843) 606-5995.

    http://www.live5news.com/story/29512267/donations-to-emanuel-hope-fund-pass-1m-mark

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  34. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 9, 2015 at 8:13 pm
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  36. rikyrah says:
    July 9, 2015 at 8:04 pm

    This is from lamh:

    lamh
    My final 2 cents on the whole “Southern Heritage” defense of the Confed flag. (well, final words today…lol)

    I was born and raised in the South. My mother was born and raised in the South. My mother’s mother was born and raised in the South. My mother’s mother’s mother was born and raised in the South (after being brought here from Africa, like alot of Black folk, I am 2 generations removed from sharecroppers and slavery). The same can be said for my father, his father, his father’s father…..you see where I’m going with this.

    I love my city NOLA. I love the Southern heritage of NOLA and I’ve NEVER been embarassed to be from the South.

    Being a native Southerner is my HERITAGE, and I and I’d bet a majority of the Black folk in the South, DO NOT consider the Confed flag as representin’ our heritage.

    I’ve lived in the South and my family has lived in the South as long as a majority of the White Southerners who like to defend the flag as part of their “Southern Heritage”.

    Now what makes their “heritage” more important than mine. What is it about “my Southern heritage” that makes it less symbolic of the Southern heritage than theirs?

    I have idea, and I’m sure you guys do to!

    https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/619306709438349312

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  37. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 9, 2015 at 8:01 pm
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    • eliihass says:
      July 9, 2015 at 8:09 pm

      Yup… And as if we needed any reminding, here comes Dylann Roof’s Rhodesian auntie:

      “…An award-winning writer has provoked fierce debate in South Africa after candidly saying that she does not like black people. Annelie Botes, a leading Afrikaner novelist, said she would invite a white, coloured (mixed race) or an Indian man in for a drink, but would “feel threatened by a black man”.

      Then South Africa’s Mail & Guardian contacted the author, whom it says is probably the most popular contemporary female writer in Afrikaans, the language of the descendents of Dutch and other European settler farmers. Botes recently won the Afrikaans category of the K Sello Duiker Memorial Literary award for her novel, Thula-thula, which tackles child abuse and incest.

      The 53-year-old stood by her original comments. “I’m scared,” she told the paper. “In my daily life there’s no one else that I feel threatened by except black people. If a courier comes to my door and he’s white, coloured or Indian, I’d have no problem inviting him in for a glass of water. But I would feel threatened by a black man.”

      Botes also said she would never appoint a black gardener. She is planning to emigrate to Britain, where her children already live, as soon her husband goes on a pension.

      But there was criticism from other readers. Fungayi Dzvinyangoma posted: “Someone needs to tell this bigoted woman that there are a lot of black people in England. However, if you get burgled in Britain the face is most likely to be white. She seems to forget the history of South Africa so quickly which could explain why the blacks have to resort to criminality. She benefited from state criminality for decades.”

      http://www.theguardian.com/world/2010/nov/29/black-people-south-african-novelist?CMP=share_btn_fb

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  38. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 9, 2015 at 7:56 pm
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  39. rikyrah says:
    July 9, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    Thank you Ametia, for this post embracing changing history

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  40. SouthernGirl2 says:
    July 9, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    Good Post, Ametia!

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  41. yahtzeebutterfly says:
    July 9, 2015 at 7:31 pm

    How appropriate and meaningful that the Governor will be giving nine pens to the families of the Emanuel 9.

    https://youtu.be/IN05jVNBs64&rel=0

    “Clementa Pinckney found that grace…
    … Cynthia Hurd found that grace…
    … Susie Jackson found that grace…
    … Ethel Lance found that grace…
    … DePayne Middleton Doctor found that grace…
    … Tywanza Sanders found that grace…
    … Daniel L. Simmons, Sr. found that grace…
    …Sharonda Coleman-Singleton found that grace…
    … Myra Thompson found that grace…
    … through the example of their lives. They’ve now passed it onto us. May we find ourselves
    worthy of that precious and extraordinary gift as long as our lives endure.”

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    • yahtzeebutterfly says:
      July 9, 2015 at 7:34 pm

      Within our nation…. may eyes, no longer blind, stay open to continue to bring about the needed change.

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    • Ametia says:
      July 9, 2015 at 8:32 pm

      SC found some semblance of GRACE today.

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      • eliihass says:
        July 9, 2015 at 8:37 pm

        Indeed…

        As heart wrenching as the murders of the great 9 martyred, perhaps this once, their deaths would not have been in vain – even if it will always feel like it…

        May they continue to rest in peace..

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  42. yahtzeebutterfly says:
    July 9, 2015 at 7:14 pm

    Wonderful page, Ametia. Thanks for posting these historic photos and videos!

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