During his emotional eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney this afternoon, President Obama addressed the need to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s capitol building. “For too long we were blind to the pain the Confederate flag stirred into many of our citizens,” the president said.

President Obama just finished delivering a eulogy for his late friend, state senator Clementa Pinckney, who was killed last week in Charleston. You should watch the entire thing.