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After equating activists for equality to neo-Nazis following the violence in Charlottesville, President Donald Trump has continued to double down on his racist rhetoric. Sad to see the history and culture of our great country being ripped apart with the removal of our beautiful statues and monuments. You….. Donald J….
Confederate statues are a rallying point for today’s neo-Nazis and white separatists. President Trump confirmed this by making it a central point of his meltdown in the Trump Tower lobby earlier this week. The difference between George Washington and Robert E. Lee is taught in elementary school history lessons. But…
I saw the president’s press conference live yesterday because I had a premonition that he was going to snap back from what he was apparently forced to read from a teleprompter on Monday. And he did, to a degree that I didn’t anticipate. President Trump said it plain and clear:…
On Friday the last of four Confederate monuments was taken down in New Orleans, La. Three of the monuments depicted General Robert E. Lee, Confederate Jefferson Davis and Confederate General P.G.T. Beauregard. A fourth depicted a violent attack against an integrated police force in the name of white supremacy. The…
39-year-old Carlos Moore, an attorney from Mississippi, is suing Gov. Phil Bryant over the state’s controversial flag, which contains a Confederate battle emblem. Related Story: Confederate Flag Will Continue to Fly over Mississippi According to Moore, while he can deal with the flag’s consequences, he doesn’t want his daughter, who…
Mississippi House and Senate bills that would change the state’s current flag, which contains the Confederate battle flag, all died this past Tuesday due to not having enough support. Various proposals on file included taking submissions for flag ideas from colleges and universities, reinstating the previous Magnolia Tree flag and…
The Ku Klux Klan “made a lot of people straighten up,” Georgia State Rep. Tommy Benton (R-Jefferson) said last week in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. Further, the Klan “was not so much a racist thing but a vigilante thing to keep law and order,” according to Benton. Benton,…
By Sheryl Estrada A monument to honor Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. on top of Stone Mountain will rest above a carving of key figures of the Confederacy. A monument to honor slaincivil rights leader Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., planned for the top of Stone Mountain Park in Georgia,…
Prominent former and current residents of Mississippi have joined together to urge the state to change its flag, which currently still encompasses a Confederate emblem. On Sunday, the Mississippi Clarion-Ledger published a full-page letter signed by 64 notable people, including former Mississippi State Rep. John Grisham, Morgan Freeman, Archie Manning…
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