
South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley signed a bill into law Thursday that will bring down the Confederate flag outside the Statehouse, a move that seemed unthinkable only a month ago in this Deep South state that was the first to secede from the Union.
by Breitbart News9 Jul 2015, 1:32 PM PST0

On June 26 President Obama eulogized Rev. Clementa Pinckney praising the frenzied efforts to banish the Confederate flag from public sight, saying, “By taking down that flag we express God’s grace.”
by AWR Hawkins26 Jun 2015, 2:13 PM PST0

Pastor Clementa Pinckney, who was slain in the massacre at the Emanuel A.M.E. Church in Charleston, South Carolina, where Dylann Roof killed nine black worshipers, voted for the Confederate flag’s display at the Statehouse on May 3, 2000, when he was a state senator.
by William Bigelow24 Jun 2015, 8:56 PM PST0

Sources tell NBC News that during his confession, Roof said he “almost didn’t go through with it because everyone was so nice to him,” but in the end decided he had to “go through with his mission.”
by John Hayward19 Jun 2015, 7:47 AM PST0