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struggle4progress

(118,282 posts)
Fri Feb 5, 2016, 06:14 PM Feb 2016

Confederate flag plan reveals racist motives

Josh Moon, Montgomery Advertiser
2:08 p.m. CST February 5, 2016

Thank you, racists.

No, I mean it. The Tallassee chapter of Sons of Confederate Veterans, the Tallassee Armory Guard and the First Capitol Flaggers deserve a bit of gratitude for their plan to erect a Confederate monument across from Alabama State University. In true redneck style, this effort to incite the black kids who had the nerve to go learn has blown up like a trailer park meth lab ...

The “Confederate flag” is nothing more than a thumbing of the nose to the ideas of equality and peaceful, happy coexisting.

Truthfully, this is something we all should have known, since the flag that is slapped all over pickup trucks and waved during marches isn’t the real Confederate flag anyway. It was the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia ...


http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/story/news/local/blogs/moonblog/2016/02/05/confederate-flag-plan-reveals-groups-true-motives/79884356/

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