Confederate flag controversy: Alabama governor orders flag removal at Capitol

Two workers walked out of the Capitol building and took the flag down shortly after 8 a.m. without any fanfare.

“I am very proud of the governor”, said Doug Jones, a ex- US attorney who prosecuted the 1963 bombing of a black church in Birmingham, Alabama by Ku Klux Klan members that killed four black girls.

On the other hand, Haley nor the state can permanently remove the flag without a 2/3rds majority vote in the House and Senate. Alabama’s governor, meanwhile, has issued an executive order removing four Confederate banners from a large monument to secessionist soldiers outside that state’s capitol. The Confederate flag flew over the statehouse dome until 2000, after the NAACP and other civil rights organizations forced officials to remove it. In a compromise, the flag was moved to the front of the statehouse where it now flies. Dr. Bob Blackburn from the Oklahoma History Center tells us when it was time for them to go back up, controversy ensued.

Both Walmart and Amazon said they would stop selling items containing the Confederate flag, and Virginia Governor Terry McAuliffe became the latest legislator announce measures against the flag, saying that it would no longer be issued on state license plates for motor vehicles. Brown said we should just be united under one flag. Cory Booker, also appearing on “New Day”, joined Wicker in calling for the removal of the Confederate flag. Twenty-two percent of white voters said it should remain, and 18 percent are unsure.

“She asked me to wait”, Walker said. We are praying for the peace and comfort for the families of the victims. “You’re not going to defeat it with politics and certainly not with more hatred”, said Hill, R-Townville.

The decision comes a day after Rep. Alvin Holmes said he would file a legislative resolution to remove Confederate flags from the Capitol grounds.

It’s not clear that declining to call for the flag’s removal will help him with Democrats, though Bill Kristol, the conservative editor of the Weekly Standard, was immediately impressed.

Here’s a fact of political life: In many cases, the right thing finally gets done belatedly, for the wrong reasons, or for reasons that aren’t terribly logical.