One day after South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley called for the Confederate flag to be taken down, Sen. Rand Paul said the flag is “inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery” and belongs “in a museum.”
Paul, who made the comments to radio host Jeff Kuhner on WKRO radio, added that the “symbolism” of the flag “needs to end,” saying that Haley is “doing the right thing.”
“No, I agree, I think the flag is inescapably a symbol of human bondage and slavery, and particularly when people use it obviously for murder and to justify hated so vicious that you would kill somebody I think that that symbolism needs to end, and I think South Carolina is doing the right thing,”
“There have been people who have used it for southern pride and heritage and all of that but really to I think to every African-American in the country it’s a symbolism of slavery to them and now it’s a symbol of murder for this young man and so I think it’s time to put it in a museum.”
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[h/t: BuzzFeed]