Hillary
Clinton urges U.S. retailers to pull Confederate flag products
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[June 24, 2015]
By Amanda Becker
FLORISSANT, Mo. (Reuters) - Democratic
presidential contender Hillary Clinton on Tuesday urged all businesses
to stop selling products with Confederate flag images, and praised
Wal-Mart Stores Inc and other retailers for pulling flag-related items.
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The businesses stopped selling the products after last week's
racially motivated attack on black worshippers at a church in
Charleston. Leaders in South Carolina, including Governor Nikki
Haley, have called for a Confederate battle flag to be removed from
the State House grounds.
The flag is "a symbol of our nation's racist past that has no place
in our present or our future. It shouldn't fly there. It shouldn't
fly anywhere," Clinton said in Florissant, a St. Louis suburb near
Ferguson, the site of violent protests last year after a young black
man was killed by a white policeman.
She commended Wal-Mart for removing products with images of the
Confederate flag from its shelves. Clinton served on Wal-Mart's
board of directors from 1986 to 1992. "Today, Amazon, eBay and Sears
followed suit, and I urge all sellers to do the very same," she
said.
"You know and I know that's just the beginning of what we have to
do," Clinton said during an appearance at a Florissant church.
"Equality, opportunity, civil rights in America are still far from
where they need to be."
The Missouri speech was the third time Clinton has made public
remarks on last week's shooting at a historically black church in
Charleston. A 21-year-old white man, Dylann Roof, has been arrested
and charged with murder, and the shootings are being investigated as
a hate crime.
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"America's long struggle with race is far from finished," she said,
repeating earlier calls for new laws to make it easier to vote and
policies to reduce unemployment and high dropout rates among
minority youth.
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(Additional reporting by Emily Stephenson in Washington; Writing by
John Whitesides; Editing by Eric Beech and Tom Brown)
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