My short answer is "yes."
But the larger picture and longer answer is more complicated and nuanced. We all, and particularly us Southern white folks, need to take the time to reflect on South Carolina's long history of racial hatred and the influence of that hatred in the state's political regimes, past and present.
As the state's NAACP President said during a special presentation on WIS TV last night, "it is sad that SC is first only in secession." And no one has mentioned the influence of Sen. Strom Thurmond, Dixiecrat candidate for US President. Thurmond represented South Carolina in the United States Senate from 1954 until 2003, at first as a Democrat and, after 1964, as a Republican.
I just saw the first evidence of backlash against Charleston's and SC's leaders online, as there was graffiti scrawled on a Confederate statue in downtown Charleston. A statue near The Battery memorializing Confederate defenders of the city was found vandalized Sunday with the message “Black lives matter.” It named both Mayor Joe Riley and Governor Nikki Haley in red paint.
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