What Lit The Fire

What lit the fire under this was the tragic death of my friend and his eight parishioners.  It took my buddy's death to get me to do this.  I should feel ashamed of myself.

-- Norman D. Brannon, Republican South Carolina state representative, who plans to file a bill to remove the Confederate flag from the Capitol grounds after the massacre of nine African-Americans at a church, including their pastor, Clementa Pinckney, New York Times, 22 June 2015