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Thu Sep 10, 2015, 06:10 PM Sep 2015

Bree Newsome visits University of Miami

BY ALEXIS MCDONALD ON SEPTEMBER 10, 2015

... “We can’t afford to be afraid. We can’t allow terror to rule the day ... The flag was raised in response to the push by the federal government to integrate the South and the Jim Crow laws ... Going up the flagpole was something I thought I had to do” said Newsome. She told the audience she took the massacre as a spiritual attack and knew if she missed out on the opportunity to take down the Confederate flag, she would regret it for the rest of her life ...

http://www.themiamihurricane.com/2015/09/10/bree-newsome-confederate-flag-climber/

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