South Carolina's Confederate flag is still flying. It's an insult to Charleston's victims.

[KamaAina]

http://www.vox.com/2015/6/18/8803661/charleston-sc-shooting-confederate-flag-statehouse

Wednesday night, a white man walked into a historically black church in Charleston, South Carolina, and shot nine parishioners. Today, a Confederate flag is flying on the grounds of the South Carolina statehouse in Columbia — as it does every day. While the flags on top of the statehouse itself are flying at half-mast, the Confederate flag (displayed at a Civil War memorial) is flying at full mast.

This is more than just an awkward juxtaposition. As Cornell historian Edward Baptist explains in a series of chilling tweets, the Confederate flag isn't just a symbol of the pro-slavery rebellion, it's also a symbol of post-Civil War white supremacy — including the KKK and other groups that expressed that supremacy violently, at times by attacking black churches. That it's flying today, after what Charleston police are describing as a hate crime, is profoundly ugly:

The flag is still a live controversy in South Carolina. In October 2014, Governor Nikki Haley defended it as unproblematic for the state's business, saying, "I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag."

So will Nikki be flying it at half-mast?

[Hoyt]

1. Good question. If she really cared, she'd personally take it down, fold it up and burn it.

[KamaAina]

2. Now there's some flag-burning I'd support wholeheartedly!

[JCMach1]

3. Unless you find yourself at a Lynnrd Skynnrd concert, or a Civil War Re-enactment

the flag can only be a symbol of hate...