Why a neighbor took down his Confederate flag

Matthew Pearl, WXIA
6:52 p.m. EDT August 20, 2015

... “I am the only black guy," said Bolden. "But they welcome me with open arms ... and I feel right at home."

That was the case until Bolden arrived home one night to see, hanging from his neighbor’s home, the Confederate flag ...

And because Bolden felt offended, his neighbor agreed to remove the flag. He even agreed to celebrate that. Bolden took a video as his neighbor took down the flag. He then sent it to us with the caption, “It’s a step in the right direction!”

"I try to ignore it, but I’m glad that I didn’t ignore it,” he said afterward. “We have to embrace our differences. We can’t shut each other out, and we can’t shut each other’s history out ...

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