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BY ALICE OLLSTEIN & EMILY ATKIN
SEP 5, 2015 3:21PM
WASHINGTON, D.C. More than 1,300 people were expected to attend a Southern Heritage rally in support of the Confederate flag on Saturday in front of the U.S. Capitol. Less than 50 showed up ...
Looking across the park at a cluster of anti-Confederate protesters who far outnumbered his own group Feathers added: If Robert E. Lee was alive today, this shit wouldnt be going on. Thats when we had a true American in office.
Feathers, a registered Democrat who believes President Obama is planning to declare martial law and rule the whole world, said hes been organizing flag rollings across Virginia ...'
We are the Confederacy, Meerman called out. Look at the person standing to your left and right. That is the Confederacy. We are it ...
http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/09/05/3699034/confederate-flag-rally-capitol-hill/
yourout
(7,531 posts)What a fricking wacko.
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)TINIEST VIOLIN
Joshua Albert
09.06.1512:01 AM ET
... Im sick and tired of people lying about that flag and lying about us, exclaimed Ginny Meerman, of Maryland. Im sick and tired of people lying about the Confederacy. Were not racist. Were not haters. They <pointing to counter-protesters> are the racists. They are the haters.
She also added, There are black Confederates. I have black family members that are Confederates. What does skin color have to do with Confederacy?
During her speech, she referred to the larger group of people counter protesting these goings on like this over here dills my pickle. I mean. I am restraining myself because I am a Southern belle. But bless their little hearts if I got a hold of them in a quiet alley somewhere ...
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/06/confederates-cry-victim-at-d-c-march.html
Fred Sanders
(23,946 posts)only by their closed circuit media playing on a loop in their closed circuit half a brain.
The GOP "minority outreach" to this pathetic clutch of...50.....is working just as planned. What, you did not think they meant not-white minorities??