Nikki Haley Says Dylann Roof 'Hijacked' Confederate Flag: Was Seen As 'Service, Sacrifice, Heritage'

[JoeOtterbein]

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By Charlie Nash Dec 6th, 2019, 1:38 pm

Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Nikki Haley, appeared to claim that mass shooter Dylann Roof “hijacked” the Confederate flag, and that it was seen as “service, and sacrifice, and heritage” before the 2015 Charleston Church Shooting, during an interview with the Blaze’s Glenn Beck this week.

Media Matters researcher Jason Campbell posted a clip from the interview on Twitter Friday.

On the topic of the shooting, Haley said, “South Carolina fell to her knees when this happened. This is one of the oldest African-American churches. These twelve people were amazing people, they love their church, they love their family, they love their community.”

“And here is this guy that comes out with this manifesto, holding the Confederate flag, and had just hijacked everything that people thought of,” she proclaimed. “We don’t have hateful people in South Carolina. There’s always the small minority that’s always gonna be there, but, you know, people saw it as service, and sacrifice, and heritage, but once he did that there was no way to overcome it, and the national media came in in droves.”

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[RT Atlanta]

1. take your 'heritage, not hate' shit back to woods of SC

it's just disgusting.... said as someone born in SC.

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

2. What a craven moron. And to think this twit is one of the "sane ones". nt

[Initech]

3. Someone obviously slept through the Civil War part of high school history.

[spanone]

4. Hey Nikki, don't forget the racism thingy

[DBoon]

5. If my "heritage" included treating human beings as draft animals

I would bury that damn flag and hope to never see it again

[50 Shades Of Blue]

6. She is vile... or spelled another way, evil.

[JoeOtterbein]

8. Great line!

I hope you don't mind me stealing it. Likely soon considering the evil and vile Trump/GOP.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

14. Oh, be my guest!

[JoeOtterbein]

15. Thanks again!

I will!

[50 Shades Of Blue]

16. Good!

[C_U_L8R]

7. The confederate flag was an abomination from the very beginning.

And its defenders openly glorify the very worst traits of humanity.

[RockRaven]

9. It stood for killing hundreds of thousands of your countrymen over the "right" to

own other humans as property, and torture, rape and murder that "property" without interference from others. That is what it stood for.

It was literally a partial battle standard of a seditious army whose purpose was to perpetuate chattel slavery of black people, whose method was to kill hundreds of thousands of American citizen soldiers. THAT is what it was.

Later on it took on its more current form, and then it stood for terrorizing and murdering an already marginalized group in order to "keep them in their place" or the like.

If anyone is misusing or misappropriating it, it is not people like Dylann Roof -- it is the people like Haley who claim it is about heritage, sacrifice, or service.

[JoeOtterbein]

10. +1000!

And it still stands for pure racism.

[Opel_Justwax]

11. Nikki is a useful idiot. n/t

[maxsolomon]

12. She contradicts herself immediately.

“We don’t have hateful people in South Carolina. There’s always the small minority that’s always gonna be there..."

So you DO have hateful people in SC.

IDGAF how (white) people "saw it".

[moondust]

13. Confederate revisionism.

http://en.metapedia.org/wiki/Confederate_revisionism

Would she say the same about this flag?

[kwolf68]

20. Not a damn bit different

The confederate flag should be put in a museum and should NEVER fly atop state houses EVER.

[Eugene]

17. Positioning herself for 2024.

Honoring the "legacy" of the Confederacy is an obvious and cynical appeal to the GOP's Trump-loving base.

[YOHABLO]

18. Let's see, and the congregants of that church felt how about that flag?

“service, and sacrifice, and heritage” Uh huh, yeah that's what it symbolizes Nikki.

[RhodeIslandOne]

19. Hooooly shit

Nimroda is really baked.