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WASHINGTON, D.C. -- One of the outside experts charged with helping rename military sites currently honoring Confederate leaders on Sunday blasted the Confederate flag as a symbol of “treason” and said America should stop venerating individuals who “fought against this country to support and create a slave society.”
[Editor's note: I disagree on every point made in this one-side article. Confederate leaders were no more traitors than were the leaders of the American Revolution. If secession was treason, then what does that make the the American patriots of 1776 who seceded from the British Empire? The cause of the Confederacy was independence, not slavery. For the real reason the South legally and constitutionally seceded, see Dr. Donald Livingston's speech on "The Reason the South Seceded" at youtube.]
ANNAPOLIS — The Maryland General Assembly voted on Monday to say goodbye to “Maryland, My Maryland,” the state song that has been criticized for racist and controversial language. Some Mid-Shore lawmakers think the song should stay.
RICHMOND, Va. -- The Virginia Supreme Court ruled Thursday that Charlottesville can remove two statues of Confederate generals, which civil rights activists say paid homage to America's history of slavery and racism.
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