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struggle4progress

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Tue Oct 27, 2015, 03:31 PM Oct 2015

I foolishly wore the Confederate flag on an Ole Miss shirt

Tuesday 27 October 2015 11.15 EDT
Dave Bry

When I was a younger, stupider person .. I used to wear a University of Mississippi T-shirt – one with a Confederate flag on it, because the Mississippi state flag has it, too ... So while I was happy to hear .. that Ole Miss was removing the Mississippi state flag from its Oxford campus .. the news resonated with me personally in a way I wish it did not ... The first time my father noticed it, he challenged me. An old hippie .. he used to play Oxford Town for me – the song Bob Dylan wrote in 1962 ... I told him that I didn’t see the flag as representing racism, but as a symbol of the American South and its “heritage” ... That, of course, is crap, as lots of smart people have pointed out since ...

http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/oct/27/i-foolishly-wore-the-confederate-flag-on-an-ole-miss-shirt-as-a-youth

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