President Obama believes that the Confederate flag belongs in exactly one place: a museum.
“The Confederate flag belongs in a museum — and that’s still his position,” White House spokesman Eric Schultz said Friday on the debate raging over South Carolina’s decision to keep flying the symbol of Dixieland.
Wednesday’s massacre of nine blacks in an historic black church in Charleston has reignited the debate over South Carolina’s practice of flying a Confederate flag along side the Palmetto State and U.S. flags over the statehouse in Columbia. The alleged murderer, Dylann Roof, has confessed, and photos of him have surfaced of him standing next to a car with the Confederate flag on it.
Roof is alleged to have told his victims before he shot them that he was out to kill black people when he opened fire Wednesday night.
