‘Silent Sam’ controversy not so silent (NC)
By Lynn Bonner
The News & Observer
(TNS)
... a few tried to talk.
Michelle Laws, executive director of the state NAACP, shook hands with Mark Self of Alamance, a monument supporter. She said controversies such as that over the statue were a distraction from issues that could bring together poor blacks and whites together.
“That’s been the best form of trickery in American history, is to keep poor blacks, poor whites, fighting, battling along racist lines,” she said. “Those scoundrels serving in Congress, they don’t have your best interests in mind, they don’t have my best interests in mind, but they love these kinds of distractions.”
Laws could not convince Self that the Confederate flag was divisive ...
http://courier-tribune.com/news/north-carolina/silent-sam-controversy-not-so-silent
