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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 07:02 PM Aug 2015

VA Flaggers Raise More Confederate Flags in Danville

Posted: Aug 29, 2015 6:33 PM EDT
By Matt Ray

... The heritage that my grandfather passed to me that fought those low-down, invading, murdering, raping, looting, burning, heathens from the north." That's what Herman White says motivated him to be the guest speaker at two separate Confederate flag dedication ceremonies in Danville ...

"We love people; we don't hate people. If there's someone that hates, they're serving the wrong master," said White ...


Beverly Richardson owns the land at the corner of Piedmont and Memorial drive where one new flag is highly visible to drivers on the Robertson Bridge.

"Looks like the state, federal, and local governments are trying to take all our liberties and rights and I'm just fighting for them," said Richardson ...


http://www.wset.com/story/29915052/va-flaggers-raise-more-confederate-flags-in-danville

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VA Flaggers Raise More Confederate Flags in Danville (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2015 OP
to the flaggers: put up all those flags of treason you want on private property rurallib Aug 2015 #1

rurallib

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1. to the flaggers: put up all those flags of treason you want on private property
Sat Aug 29, 2015, 08:58 PM
Aug 2015

There should be none on public property of any stripe - schools, state, federal and local government included.

You should expect push back from those who see that flag not as a symbol of anything noble, but as symbol of oppression and hate and one of the vilest sins of humanity - that of systematic slavery and its fallout.

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