Just a few current examples.
PETITION AND MARCH-- Residents in the largely black community of Brownsville in Summerville, SC, have petitioned the city and plan a march past the house of a white neighbor who flies the Confederate flag.
NO FLAG AT WVU-- An editorial in the West Virginia Athenaeum student newspaper says there is no place for the Confederate flag on campus and calls for the university to make rules against employees flying it. "The Confederate flag is divisive. It alienates students. It has no place in our university. Period."
NEW MASCOT AT OLE MISS-- Still a Rebel, More Bearish. The Rebel Black Bear beat out other favorites like the rebel land Shark, Hotty Toddy and Admiral Ackbar. Obviously, there were a lot of comments.
One I particularly liked was, "Ole Miss has selected a black bear as its new mascot. Excuse me, I mean a Native-American Bear or Bear of Color. I apologize."
There was a vote in the article I read in AOL News as to who should be he mascot.
Colonel Reb 62% (the original)
Admiral Ackbar 22% (from Star Wars)
Hotty Toddy 8%
Rebel Black Bear 4%
Rebel Land Shark 4%
Will It Ever End? --Old B-Runner
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