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struggle4progress

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Sun Aug 2, 2015, 02:46 PM Aug 2015

Pro-Confederate flag rally at 'south's Mount Rushmore' draws hundreds

Associated Press
Sunday 2 August 2015 11.58 EDT

... The condemnations have been good for the business of Robert Hayes, who runs the Southern Patriot Shop in Abbeville, South Carolina ...

“If they want to get offended, that’s their problem. I fly it for my own reasons. It’s got nothing to do with hate for anybody. My boss is black. I work for two black guys. I have this tag, I pull up for work every day. It doesn’t bother them,” Kimsey said, though he acknowledged he never has broached the topic with them ...

The Confederate flag still flies outside two biker bars near the home that Angela Burns, a black woman, rents on Dixie Drive in Anderson County, South Carolina, where five of the six state representatives voted against removing it from the statehouse ...

“You ignore it after a while. I’m not letting them bother me,” she said. “But every one of them knows they are being mean and ugly.”


http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/aug/02/confederate-flag-protest-georgia

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