Baku-APA. Hundreds of Americans have rallied at the South Carolina State House to demand that the Confederate flag be removed from the grounds following the massacre of nine African-Americans by a white gunman who had posed with the flag, APA reports quoting Press TV.
Chanting "Bring it down" and "Take it down," protesters gathered on Tuesday in the sweltering summer heat in Columbia, South Carolina to protest the flying of the Confederate flag, a controversial symbol of the Confederate slave states that existed from 1861 to 1865.
The Confederate States of America was an unrecognized confederation of secessionist US states whose regional economy was mostly dependent upon agriculture, which in turn largely relied upon the labor of black slaves.
The protesters pushed for state lawmakers to follow a call by Governor Nikki Haley to remove the flag after 21-year-old Dylann Roof slaughtered nine African-American worshipers, including a state senator, at a church in Charleston last week.
Across the nation there has been a growing outcry for the flag to be removed since Roof, who is a white supremacist, appeared in photos holding Confederate flags and burning or desecrating US flags.
"Talk has been had, we don't need any more talking," said Nelson Rivers of the National Action Network, one of the speakers. "All the points have been made. The governor has spoken. The flag ought to come down."
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