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05.06.2021 - US, United States - Common Dreams Retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter attempted to share the history of Memorial Day at an event in Hudson, Ohio on Monday, noting that freed black slaves played a key role in marking the holiday after the Civil War. Organizers cut his mic, saying Kemter s discussion of Black history was not relevant. (Image by screenshot)
A 77-year-old veteran Army medic accused organizers of an American Legion Memorial Day event of censoring him on Wednesday, days after his microphone was cut as he attempted to share how the holiday was originally celebrated by Black people who had been enslaved.
The group, White Lies Matter, have demanded they ll return the monument if that a banner be put over the monument for 24 hrs which says “The rulers of this country have always considered their property more important than our lives.” Failing that, they ll destroy the monument to the so-called President of the Confederate States, which is valued at $500,000, by turning it into a toilet.
A Confederate monument valued at $500,000 was stolen in March from a Selma cemetery, officials confirmed today.
This morning, a group that claims to have taken the monument, the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair, sent emails to AL.com saying they will give the chair to the United Daughters of the Confederacy if that organization agrees to hang a banner outside its Richmond, Va. headquarters.