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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts)
Sat Dec 19, 2015, 01:36 PM Dec 2015

You mean the story about all those black Confederate soldiers is a lie too?

By Jarvis DeBerry, NOLA.com | The Times-Picayune
on December 14, 2015 at 10:23 AM
updated December 14, 2015 at 1:19 PM

The best thing ever happened to me after I wrote the column that begins with my observation of a black man outside New Orleans City Hall ridiculously clad in Confederate paraphernalia ... The black Confederate sympathizer took a photo of me from the web – a photo I happen to like a great deal – and added these words to it: "Meet Jarvis DeBerry: Journalist and Race Baiting Clown."

I can't tell you how it warms my heart to be called a clown by a black man .. walking around with Confederate paraphernalia and crusading to prevent the removal of Confederate monuments from the Southern landscape. Seriously. I shared it with all my friends and thanked the guy for his early Christmas president ...


http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/12/black_confederate_soldiers.html

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