NAACP ask South Carolina's Gov. Haley to remove confedrate flag from statehouse

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The NAACP's top officer is calling on South Carolina's first governor of color to bring down the Confederate flag that flies a stone's throw from her Statehouse office.

NAACP president Benjamin Jealous called Gov. Nikki Haley a contradiction in his keynote speech for the civil rights organization's annual convention in Los Angeles on Monday.

Jealous compared slavery and segregation to oppression in India under colonial British rule and said Haley should ask what Gandhi would do. Haley's parents are from India. She was born in Bamberg.

Haley's spokesman did not immediately respond to messages Tuesday. Haley has said there is not enough support to move the flag. A 2000 compromise moved the flag from the Statehouse dome and legislative chambers to a monument on the grounds.