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Display of the Confederate flag through Muskegon Heights sends message (MI)
By Susan Harrison Wolffis | Muskegon Chronicle
on August 28, 2015 at 10:50 AM
... I have only one conclusion. The driver and his passenger, two young white males, were looking for trouble; to see if anyone would take the bait and take them on ...
Why else would they have travelled the roads chosen? ...
I suppose there is the off-chance that this fellow is of limited intelligence ... There is that chance ...
I can tell you, though, that when he passed me on Airline, he flew past, fist pumping, flag waving — and I am sad to report, I know it wasn't the last time I'll encounter all that he and the Confederate flag represent, not by a long shot.
http://www.mlive.com/opinion/muskegon/index.ssf/2015/08/bold_display_of_the_confederat.html
