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There's a snopes article about this and it calls Bernie supporters sharing this "disingenuous" for not mentioning that she ordered the flag not be replaced after this guy tore it down for the second time in two days.
https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/dianne-feinstein-confederate-flag/
Absolutely based.
Stories like this always make me feel like the Confederacy won
"the union won the war, the confederacy won the peace" is how my college prof put it
Oh shit
100%. Reading about how reconstruction was mercilessly crushed is heartbreaking and infuriating.
Succinct.
I mean the Reconstruction happened under Andrew Johnson, so pretty much.
why black man no stand for flag???
Jesus Christ dude had to have been
spoiler
rippedFree-climbing fifty feet up a narrow metal pole requires a good bit of practical strength.
thin skinned snowflakes smdh
Malicious mischief