Republican 2024 presidential candidate Nikki Haley mentioned the Accomplice flag is “not racist” in a 2010 interview, when she was working for South Carolina governor, that CNN’s “Ok-File” unearthed on Wednesday.
Haley additionally informed the now-defunct Palmetto Patriots group, whose members included a white nationalist, that the Civil Conflict was actually about “custom versus change,” and never slavery. She defended the fitting of states to secede and in contrast South Carolina’s Accomplice Historical past Month with Black Historical past Month.
5 years later, then-Gov. Haley known as for the removing of the flag from statehouse grounds following white nationalist Dylan Roof’s bloodbath of 9 individuals at a Black church in Charleston.