Bexar County Votes to Remove Confederate Symbols (TX)
Posted Tuesday, July 21st 2015 @ 3pm
After three hours of emotional debate, the Bexar County Commission voted today to remove two small monuments on county property which display the Confederate battle flag ...
"There is nothing more disinviting than to see a symbol of the Confederacy, which is very much synonymous with slavery, and with some of the bad elements of our history," said State Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, who was one of several dozen people who spoke out against the monuments ...
Becky Brenner is a retired teacher at Wagner High School, which has a large African American enrollment. She broke down in tears when she urged the monuments be removed.
"I can tell you that if they had won, they would take all of my African American students out and assassinate them," she said, her voice breaking. "They would execute them, because that's what slavery did. They were not allowed to read and write" ...
http://www.woai.com/articles/woai-local-news-sponsored-by-five-119078/bexar-county-votes-to-remove-confederate-13782880/
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