Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Muhurukuro kuSeneti yeHurumende muna July 2015, Thurmond akadaidzira kuti mureza weConfederate ubviswe zvachose panhandare yeHurumende. Kutama kwacho kwakatangwa ne
kupfura pachechi yeEmanuel African Methodist Episcopal muCharleston kwakaitika mwedzi wapfuura, umo vanhu vapfumbamwe - kubatanidza shamwari yaThurmond Clementa Pinckney - vakaurawa. Kuurawa kwacho kwakaitwa nomurwiri wehutongi hwevachena Dylann Roof, uyo akanga ari muoneki akatanhamara weflag.