U.S. Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., called for the removal of the Confederate flag that flies at the South Carolina Statehouse as he attended a Martin Luther King Jr. memorial event at a Greenville church Sunday night.
"I don't think it belongs on the Capitol grounds," Dodd said in an interview before speaking at Springfield Baptist Church. "It belongs in a museum."
Young people from South Carolina _ black and white _ are serving in the military in Iraq and Afghanistan under one flag, Dodd said. The historic context of the Confederate flag is best shown in a museum, he said.
He said former Democratic South Carolina Gov. Dick Riley had it right more than two decades ago in wanting the flag removed. Dodd, who launched his presidential bid Thursday, met with Riley, former Clinton administration education secretary, Sunday in Greenville.
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