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Sapakoff: Confederate flag rout is on, if sports powers close the deal

Nine good people died at Emanuel AME Church on June 17 while studying how to become even better people. We are a better state and country for getting to know them.

Fresh courage has been on display — from governors’ offices in South Carolina and Alabama to a North Carolina woman who scaled a pole at the S.C. Statehouse in Columbia to temporarily remove the Confederate flag.

We’re not quite there yet. Polls can be deceiving. An old cause surrounding a symbol of slavery that has been rekindled by recent violence on a street named for John C.