College students in South protest Confederate symbols

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Sarah Grace Taylor
8:55 p.m. CDT April 21, 2016

... By June 27, 2015, 10 days after the Charleston shooting, MTSU students already had 600 signatures on an online petition to change the name of the Army ROTC building named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, a Confederate general, slave owner, slave trader and early leader of the Ku Klux Klan ...

The week before the resolution vote, about 200 activists rallied in support of removing the state flag. Members of the Ku Klux Klan also came to campus to support the flag and counteract Coon’s movement.

“I think having those people, people who hate and disparage, on our campus, fighting for the flag is what really did it,” Coon said ...

“I still can’t believe sometimes that the state flag doesn’t fly at Ole Miss,” Coon said. “For a lot of people, this was the last visage of the ‘old South’ in a public institution, so for us to be able to combat that culture is empowering” ...

http://www.tennessean.com/story/news/2016/04/21/college-students-south-protest-confederate-symbols/83358984/

[Buzz Clik]

1. We won't be talking about the Georgia state flag, right?

[struggle4progress]

2. I'd be delighted to see Georgia change its flag to remove the confederate references

They seem to have a hard time sticking very long with any one design

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