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Malveaux At Large: Confederacy Nostalgia Makes Me Nervous
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Malveaux, Julianne
Sun Reporter, The
01-18-2001
Malveaux At Large: Confederacy Nostalgia Makes Me Nervous
Why do so many white folks wish they were in the land of cotton? Probably
because they weren't the ones picking it. My question may seem facetions,
but with so many Bush Administration nominees speaking fondly of the
Confederacy, it is no wonder that George W. only garnered 8 percent of the
African American vote. The combination of Republican National Committee
Chairman James Gilmore's declaration, last year, that April should be
Confederacy month, South Carolina's insistence of keeping a ...
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