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Is the best deal. This is Aljazeera America. Good morning. Live from new york city, im randall pinkston. The first shot of the civil war was fired in South Carolina. For decades the Confederate Flag has been a fixture ocean of the State Capitol but that changes in a few hours the battle flag will come down and moved to the relic room. The governor signed a bill to remove the flag yesterday. At her side, family members of victims from last months Church Massacre in charleston. Diane, tell us how the program will go this morning for the removal of the flag. Randall weve gotten very few details from the state on how things are going to proceed this morning. We know theres going to be a ceremony at 10 00. The flag will be lowered carried away in an Armored Vehicle. Its going to be taken to the South Carolina confederate relic room and Military Museum here in columbia, about a mile away. Were going to have to waist and see how things proceed as the day progresses. With all the controversy,
We know that this flag is very divisive. We know that. We know that this flag needs to be removed. We know that. We know all of these things. We know that. But what are we doing as a body . What are we doing as individuals to Work Together to heal our nation, to heal our state from such tragedy . Certainly its been a tragedy here in the state of South Carolina. While the world watches whats going on here, while the world watch South Carolina to see if South Carolina is ready to move forward. Well were at a stand still. Were about like stale water. We sit all night and all day as the mosquitoes gather. As the mosquitoes gather around to drink of the water and to be born and to be embarrassed, thats what we do. We need fresh water here in South Carolina. We need a running screen. We need a fresh flow of water that can run through South Carolina. To give South Carolina a newness that it needs. Certainly the business in the world want that, too. Certainly bmw want that. Certainly sunoco pr
This, as with other aspects of this nightmarish problem the u. S. Needs to lead its partners in the region and internationally in stepping up the effort so its closer to the level of the problem. We have again, we have declaratory policies about humanitarian issues but theres no followthrough. People make pledges they never deliver. Ive looked at camps in kurdistan. I remember seeing the sea of tents last year in northern jordan where syrians have come. Ive seen the camps in turkey. And, you know, if you really want to think about the nightmare, think about all those young men in those camps. Very little jobs, money, but radical preachers. People talking to them about settling scores and its a formula for not just another four, eight years of trouble but a generation of nightmarish problems. We saw what happened when the palestinians were dispersed and went into camp and had radicals banging them every day about the struggle. And i think its i fear its already too late to have caught t
For 17yearold taylor white of jackson, mississippi people have it on their houses. Its everywhere. Reporter and rose kenney i dont know of any other, you know any other place when you have a war and the loser gets to fly their flag. Reporter witnessing this historic fall of the Confederate Flag over South Carolinas capitol is a moment they will forever embrace. Even watching it on a tv screen from the Pennsylvania Convention center. I had a great great uncle who was lynched under the flag and my great grandmother had to take care of him. Reporter kenny and his sister are united having felt the divide and hatred they say associated with the symbolic battle flag in their native north carolina. Even running into the woods from the ku klux klan. People used to throw things at us and use the n word go home and we were only third and fourth graders at the time. Reporter as young girls they crossed the Railroad Tracks among the first black students to attend a white school. So for those of us