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Southerners Battle Over Relics Of The Confederacy
by: Debbie Elliott
MARCH 17, 2016
... Moore says keeping the Confederate banner sends a clear message to the minority.
“It’s not about hunting. It’s not about fishing. It’s not about sweet tea,” he says. “It has to be about white supremacy” ...
... In New Orleans, a contractor hired to remove Confederate monuments backed out of the job after employees received death threats and his car was torched ...
... “Good-thinking people want a flag that represents everybody,” says Ronnie Crudup, bishop of New Horizon Church International in Jackson, Miss ...
http://nepr.net/news/2016/03/17/reverence-and-rage-southerners-battle-over-relics-of-the-confederacy/