Killer Mike Says the Confederate Is a Sign for Losers

Killer Mike spoke to Fader about South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley's decision to remove the Confederate flag over South Carolina's Statehouse and stated that he does not think the flag "should ever fly over a state, city, county building, or school, for the simple reason that it represents secession from the Union."

The Run The Jewels rapper said that he understands southerns wearing the flag on clothes or hanging it up on their personal property because it's a part of Southern heritage and to many, represents the lives lost in the Civil War. However, he asserts that doing so over state grounds is disrespectful to the nation as a whole.

"It represented a part of the country trying to become a separate country from America," he said. "That side lost, and you do not fly the flags of losers over the winners' country. It's just that simple. There's no way around that. It should not be on anything that taxpayers pay for, because taxpayers are a part of the Union not the Confederacy. It has no place in the building, no place on the building, no place around the building."

Mike also spoke about Dylann Roof, the Charleston shooting and how the confederate flag correlates.

"Dylann Roof certainly thinks [the Confederate flag] is racial, and there are people who are proponents for it because it's racial," he said. "But I don't give a damn if he wore it on his jacket. Why should I? That's his jacket. He has the right to wear the Confederate flag, the Rhodesian flag, or any other flag. What I care about is an environment where states like South Carolina will allow that flag to fly above their state building and they know that flag is used as a symbol of empowerment for white supremacy. I care that it's allowed to enforce a sick and perverse mentality by hanging atop a state building that taxpayers pay for. My primary objection to it is firmly grounded in a political argument, not an emotional one. It's less to do about me—"Hey, I'm black and it hurts my feelings, it's a symbol of slavery and oppression"—and more to do with the fact that, as an American, I will not honor a group of treacherous traitors. That's why I despise the rebel flag. Long live the South, and quickly die the Confederacy."

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