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Sun Jun 21, 2015, 06:26 PM Jun 2015

Charleston mayor calls for Confederate flag to be retired, put ‘into a museum’

By Jose A. DelReal June 21 at 10:31 AM

Longtime Charleston Mayor Joseph P. Riley on Sunday called for the Confederate flag, which hangs outside the South Carolina state capitol, to be removed and sent "into a museum,” calling it an "affirmation" of hatred ...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/06/21/charleston-mayor-calls-for-confederate-flag-to-be-retired-put-into-a-museum/

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