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This is how racists rally for ‘pride and heritage’
By Jonathan Capehart
July 20 at 3:58 PM
... “I’ll hang your black ass,” screamed one man. “I love Colonel Sanders,” yelled one shirtless guy. He then punctuated his pronouncement with “Boy!” That’s a racist double play with its fried chicken reference followed by a slavemaster-Jim Crow paternalistic putdown. After all that, my favorite was the guy who told the interviewer, “We’re trying to get a point across that the Confederate flag doesn’t represent hate. It represents pride and heritage.” It might represent heritage, but there is absolutely nothing to be proud of ...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2015/07/20/this-is-how-racists-rally-for-pride-and-heritage/
