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struggle4progress

(118,350 posts) Wed Sep 9, 2015, 01:18 PM Sep 2015

Silent Sam blindfolded by Confederate battle flag (NC)

HANNAH SMOOT | PUBLISHED 23 MINUTES AGO

... The statue was blindfolded with a Confederate battle flag sometime between Tuesday night and mid-morning Wednesday. The Confederate memorial was tagged with spray paint reading "black lives matter" and "who was Sandra Bland" on two separate occasions in July and August. The spray painting referred to Sandra Bland, a black woman who died in police custody in July ...

Noel McIntosh, a freshman, said she didn't realize what the statue was until her sister pointed it out. "The fact that it's still up is an issue to some people," she said. "I don't really like it either." She said she thinks it's obvious that students don't want the statue on campus ...

http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2015/09/silent-sam-blindfolded-breaking-0909

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Silent Sam blindfolded by Confederate battle flag (NC) (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2015 OP

Brilliant metaphor. randome Sep 2015 #1

I have an alibi: I was at home, alone, reading a book by Pauli Murray struggle4progress Sep 2015 #2

randome

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1. Brilliant metaphor.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 01:21 PM

Sep 2015

Now can you account for your whereabouts between Tuesday night and mid-morning Wednesday, s4p?
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A ton of bricks, a ton of feathers, it's still gonna hurt.[/center][/font][hr]

struggle4progress

(118,350 posts)

2. I have an alibi: I was at home, alone, reading a book by Pauli Murray

Reply to randome (Reply #1)

Wed Sep 9, 2015, 01:36 PM

Sep 2015

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