It wasn't the white supremacy or enslavement of African Americans that gave the Confederate flag a bad rap — it was just one bad egg in South Carolina. At least, that's how former United Nations Ambassador Nikki Haley sees it.
Haley, South Carolina's ex-governor, said in an interview with The Blaze's Glenn Beck that the Confederate flag was a symbol of "service and sacrifice and heritage" until Dylann Roof opened fire in a Charleston church, killing nine black worshipers.
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