Crestview FL City Council table the Controversial Confederate Flag issue at Monday’s Meeting
By: Cristina Pfeffer - Email
Mon 8:27 PM, Oct 14, 2013
The flag has flown at the William "Uncle Bill" Lundy Memorial on Highway 85 for many years now.
Members of the NAACP have asked for it to be removed for a lot of those years ...
But apparently so many people showed up Monday night that council members were afraid there wouldn't be enough time to hear all the public comments, so they decided to table the issue ...
"African Americans were slaves, that is part of our history too, but we don't have a slave memorial, nor are we asking for one,” said <former NAACP President Sabu> Williams. “All we are saying is this part of history was what we think we need to learn to grow from, not so much continue in" ...
http://www.wjhg.com/news/headlines/Crestview-City-Council-table-the-Controversial-Confederate-Flag-issue-at-Mondays-Meeting-227752451.html
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