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NNN0LHI Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Apr-12-08 08:39 PM
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White supremacist's statue to stay put at S.C. House
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/nation/5691851.html

COLUMBIA, S.C. — A statue honoring "Pitchfork Ben" Tillman, one of America's foremost white supremacists, will stay on the South Carolina State House grounds — at least for now.

The decision was made by Republican state Rep. Greg Delleney, who Thursday morning killed a resolution that would have removed the statue from its prominent spot at the State House front.

"He was a man of his times, honored by the people of his times," Delleney said after the meeting. "I'm not going to go back and rewrite history."
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