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(7,875 posts) Fri Dec 11, 2015, 01:43 AM Dec 2015

TYT: Man With Noose And Confederate Flag Says He’s Not A Racist

A Missouri man is claiming that the Confederate flag he has on display is not racist. His argument is slightly undercut by the noose he also has hanging outside his home. Cenk Uygur and Ana Kasparian (The Point) hosts of The Young Turks discuss.

Is this man a racist? Are his Confederate flag and noose symbols of racism? Let us know in the comments below.

Read more here: http://www.rawstory.com/2015/12/missouri-man-says-hanging-noose-with-confederate-flag-is-a-rope-tying-lesson-and-not-racism-at-all/

“A Springfield, Missouri man insisted this week that a Confederate flag and a noose hanging on his home had nothing to do with racism.

Justin Clopton told KSPR that his neighbor Jeffrey Tindle had gone too far by combining a symbol of lynching with the Confederate flag.

“In my opinion, it’s racist,” Clopton said. “I love the history of this country, but there is a lot of history of this country that is really despicable, and that noose represents bad things in the South. The way I look at it, a noose means lynching.”

KSPR reported that someone at Tindle’s home removed the flag and the noose after a reporter asked about it. But within a few hours, the flag was back up.”