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Letter | S.C. leaders must apologize now for Confederate flag decision - or lose their jobs later

Leaders need to apologize for flag decision

To the South Carolina General Assembly: It is easy to blame the Charleston tragedy on the internet, guns, mental health system or bad parents - and even a 150-year-old Confederate flag - but doing so insults the intelligence of everybody in the state.

An apology to the voters now for this knee-jerk reaction may save you the next election cycle.

Richard Rossi, Little River

This story was originally published July 29, 2015 at 7:25 AM with the headline "Letter | S.C. leaders must apologize now for Confederate flag decision - or lose their jobs later."

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