The Flag and the Fury
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The University of Mississippi's First Black Cheerleader Refused to Carry the Confederate Flag
The Confederate flag is at the heart of an emotional racial dispute at the University of Mississippi. For a black person like John to carry the Confederate flag, it's like a Jewish person carrying a swastika. People were leading hostile protests on the campus. The Ku Klux Klan held an off-campus march in protest. Someone said his dorm room on fire? Probably was the most hated person in the South.
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