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RandySF

(58,740 posts)
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 01:20 AM Jun 2015

Twitter neo-Confederates express panic with #SouthernLivesMatter

In an era where police officers assault and kill black people with impunity, the phrase “Black Lives Matter” has become a racial justice rallying cry across the United States. In hashtag form, #BlackLivesMatter educates and mobilizes countless activists on Twitter and other social media platforms. Neo-Confederates have co-opted the phrase for their own purposes with a hashtag of their own — #SouthernLivesMatter.

On Saturday, Confederate flag enthusiasts protested against the flag’s removal from Alabama statehouse grounds, waving their banner and carrying signs that read: “Southern Lives Matter,” and “Secession Now.”


http://www.rawstory.com/2015/06/we-are-being-exterminated-twitter-neo-confederates-express-panic-with-southernlivesmatter/

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Twitter neo-Confederates express panic with #SouthernLivesMatter (Original Post) RandySF Jun 2015 OP
Minorities - born and rasied in the south and view the confederate flag as hate Iliyah Jun 2015 #1

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)
1. Minorities - born and rasied in the south and view the confederate flag as hate
Mon Jun 29, 2015, 01:35 AM
Jun 2015

so therefore they don't matter?

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