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people that say things. the point is we don t need to give them one more reason to say it. that flag is not on the grounds of the statehouse anymore so it s one less thing for us to talk about. 57% of people in a cnn/orc poll view the flag as a symbol of southern pride and not racism. is that surprising to you? no a lot of the people and if you had heard the debate, so many look at it as honoring ancestors who fought and died for their state. confederate proponents, they re not haters. they re not you ve got people who will hijack it who use the flag as a symbol of hate right? right. but we have to remember that people are using it as a symbol of hate and it s something that causes people pain because it s - a reminder of a time that was painful. so what we have to do is remain the pro-confederate citizens look we re not trying to take away your heritage, we re not trying to take away family members that sacrificed. what we are trying to do is not
the statehouse it was right in front. and these grounds are a place that everybody should feel a part of. and these grounds are a place that should be that belong to the people of south carolina. and what i have realized now more than ever is people were driving by and they felt hurt and pain. no one should feel pain. you know we can have our disagreements and we can have our policy back and forth but no one should feel pain over something, not over a symbol. 57% of americans view the flag as a symbol of southern pride and not racism. is that surprising to you? no. because a lot of the people and if you had heard the debate in the statehouse so many look at it as honoring ancestors who fought and died for their state. that s the way they look at it. you look at people and this really is confederate proponents they are not haters. you ve got people who will hijack it. who use the flag as a symbol of hate. right. but what we have to remember is
since i ve been here since sunday and there s a lot that have told me that this is not only a symbol of southern pride, southern heritage it represents their ancestors fighting what they call an army of invaders from the north back during the civil war time people here taking this to heart and really emotional about it. if i move out of the way here you can see here even after this all went down last night, people are still unwilling to let it go. that one individual there has been there since early this morning. he s now joined by a handful of others. the majority that have been here it s a monumental day, an historic day and a day that has finally come for so many people. brooke? nick valencia thank you so much. we ll be showing you, governor nikki haley signing that bill into law. thank you, nick. . law enforcement officials are telling us in the last two weeks specifically they have
of the confederate flag finally coming down. what do you think of this poll, a cnn poll this week found that majority of americans, 57% see it as more of a symbol of southern pride than racism. as a southerner i think when people are educated about the purpose of the confederate flag and about the very essence of why there was an effort to overthrow the american government in the south during the civil war, when they understand it was about slavery, all of the articles of secession said it was about slavery, the constitution of the confederate states of america was a reaffirmation of slavery, when people are aware of that fact we recognize we have one flag in this nation. that is the stars and stripes. that is the flag of the united states of america, and the rebel flag and confederate flat is an acrho anyic.