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riversedge

(70,243 posts)
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 08:57 PM Jun 2015

More retailers should remove Confederate flag products, Hillary Clinton says

Source: LA Times




More retailers should remove Confederate flag products, Hillary Clinton says

......."How do we make sense of such an evil act, an act of racist terrorism perpetrated in a house of God?" Clinton asked in her remarks Tuesday. "How do we turn grief, anger and despair into purpose and action?"


The former secretary of State linked the current conversation to her domestic platform. She called for better early childhood education, changes to voting rules and reform of the criminal justice system.

"I know it’s tempting to dismiss a tragedy like this as an isolated incident, to believe that in today’s America, bigotry is behind us, that institutionalized racism no longer exists," she said.

"But in spite our best efforts and highest hopes, America’s long struggle with race is far from finished."

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/nation/la-na-clinton-flag-20150623-story.html

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More retailers should remove Confederate flag products, Hillary Clinton says (Original Post) riversedge Jun 2015 OP
Get rid of the statues of the traitor generals in the parks warrant46 Jun 2015 #1

warrant46

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1. Get rid of the statues of the traitor generals in the parks
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 09:05 PM
Jun 2015

And especially the headstones of the traitors in the military cemeteries that have these flags flown on them..

Hell dig them up and burn the bones too

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