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Schooling in the Ownership Society: Gov. Haley: 'No CEO's complained' about Confederate flag. But how many black CEOs were surveyed?

Schooling in the Ownership Society: Gov. Haley: 'No CEO's complained' about Confederate flag. But how many black CEOs were surveyed?:

Gov. Haley: 'No CEO's complained' about Confederate flag. But how many black CEOs were surveyed?

“I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag.” -- Gov. Haley
Following the racist, terrorist attack by Dylann Roof which left 9 African-Americans dead in a Charleston Church, S.C. Gov. Nikki Haley (R) defended the flying of the Confederate battle flag over the Statehouse. In response to the growing demand that the flag be taken down, Haley responded that the Confederate flag was a “sensitive issue.”



“What I can tell you is over the last three and a half years, I spent a lot of my days on the phones with CEOs and recruiting jobs to this state,” the governor noted. “I can honestly say I have not had one conversation with a single CEO about the Confederate flag.”



Her comment was revealing, not only about Haley's gross insensitivity to the victims Schooling in the Ownership Society: Gov. Haley: 'No CEO's complained' about Confederate flag. But how many black CEOs were surveyed?: