Watch Live Now: South Carolina Removes Confederate Flag From Statehouse

After 54 years, in a historic turn of events, the confederate flag is finally being removed from the South Carolina statehouse.

A huge crowd is gathering to watch history. A flag that to many represents oppression, racism, slavey, hate, and a war the south lost, is finally, after 54 years, being removed from the South Carolina statehouse. It is scheduled to come down at 10:00 AM EDT.

Hundreds are positioned near the flag, with several dissenters carrying large Confederate flags in defiance of the will of the people.

Sadly, it took the murders of nine Black parishioners at a Wednesday night Bible study class led by Pastor and State Senator Clementa Pinckey, who was one of the victims, for he flag to come down. Internet sleuths uncovered several images of the shooter, a white supremacist, waving the flag, forever cementing hatred and racism to it.

This week, lawmakers passed legislation allowing the flag – which by law could not be touched or removed – to be removed permanently.

One lawmaker, the Republican Representative of Charleston, delivered an impassioned plea urging her colleagues to let it come down without delaying tactics: 

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Gov. Nikki Haley signed that bill into law yesterday.

 

Image by Crysty Vaughan via Twitter