A South Carolina county sheriff is refusing to follow President Obama's order to lower the American flag in all public buildings at half-staff in honor of the life of Nelson Mandela.

The president made the declaration on Thursday shortly after it was announced that the iconic South African leader had died at the age of 95. The order asks that all public buildings including law enforcement offices fly U.S. flags at half-staff until sunset Monday as a sign of respect for Mandela.

"We will not see the likes of Nelson Mandela again," Obama said in his proclamation, according to KTLA. "Let us pause and give thanks for the fact that Nelson Mandela lived - a man who took history in his hands, and bent the arc of the moral universe toward justice."

Instead of following Obama's orders to keep the flags lowered until Monday, Pickens County Sheriff Rick Clark declared that he is ordering the flag be raised on Sunday because the honor of lowering flags to half-staff should be reserved for Americans.

Clark said that his sheriff's office's flag was currently at half-staff to honor a slain deputy, and would remain lowered on Saturday in honor of Pearl Harbor Day, however he vowed to return it to full height by Sunday.

Clark spoke out against the president's proclamation in a Facebook message posted on Friday morning.

"I usually don't post political items, but today is different," his message read.

"Nelson Mandela did great things for his country and was a brave man but he was not an AMERICAN!!! The flag should be lowered at our Embassy in S. Africa, but not here," he continued.

Shortly after 9 p.m. EST Friday, Clark wrote a new comment addressing the responses he received to his post.

"There will be no negative post on here about President Mandela," Clark wrote in a new comment. "He freed a country and fought for his country and his constituents in many ways and faced horrors we will never know. It is about the people who gave the sacrifice for the USA. Nothing more nothing less."