You're right. Following the horrific Mother Emmanuel massacre in June, 2015 -- the slaughter of nine members of the congregation following their Bible study, but a young white male supremacist -- demands were made by Black citizens (and white, as well, of which I was one) to remove the damn Confederate flag to the SC Statehouse. Nikki wa…
You're right. Following the horrific Mother Emmanuel massacre in June, 2015 -- the slaughter of nine members of the congregation following their Bible study, but a young white male supremacist -- demands were made by Black citizens (and white, as well, of which I was one) to remove the damn Confederate flag to the SC Statehouse. Nikki wasn't sure what to do. Which way was the wind blowing? How would her decision affect her politically??! Finally, after a young Black woman had had enough and climbed the flagpole to cut it down, Nikki said that the flag would come down -- HOWEVER: it would be put in a "place of honor" on the grounds of the Capitol.
You're right. Following the horrific Mother Emmanuel massacre in June, 2015 -- the slaughter of nine members of the congregation following their Bible study, but a young white male supremacist -- demands were made by Black citizens (and white, as well, of which I was one) to remove the damn Confederate flag to the SC Statehouse. Nikki wasn't sure what to do. Which way was the wind blowing? How would her decision affect her politically??! Finally, after a young Black woman had had enough and climbed the flagpole to cut it down, Nikki said that the flag would come down -- HOWEVER: it would be put in a "place of honor" on the grounds of the Capitol.