06-26-2015, 11:54 PM
Here's what President Obama said about the Confederate flag during his eulogy for Clementa Pinckney in Charleston, South Carolina today.
"For too long we were blind to the pain that the Confederate flag had stirred in too many of our citizens.
It’s true a flag did not cause these murders, but as people from all walks of life … we all have to acknowledge, the flag has always represented more than just ancestral pride.
Removing the flag from this state’s Capitol would not be an act of political correctness, it would not be an insult to the valor of Confederate soldiers, it would simply be an acknowledgement that the cause for which they fought, the cause of slavery, was wrong.
By taking down that flag we express God’s grace.”
"For too long we were blind to the pain that the Confederate flag had stirred in too many of our citizens.
It’s true a flag did not cause these murders, but as people from all walks of life … we all have to acknowledge, the flag has always represented more than just ancestral pride.
Removing the flag from this state’s Capitol would not be an act of political correctness, it would not be an insult to the valor of Confederate soldiers, it would simply be an acknowledgement that the cause for which they fought, the cause of slavery, was wrong.
By taking down that flag we express God’s grace.”