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7 W&L students demand removal of Confederate flags, decry view of Lee's legacy

Thursday, April 17, 2014 11:42
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 “The university is a hotbed of these kinds,” he said. “They would fit better in Communist China than in the United States. They don’t have the right to control other people’s actions.”

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Some Washington & Lee University law students want the university to live by its honor code and stop glorifying its namesake by acknowledging the dishonorable side of both Robert E. Lee and W&L.

Seven multiracial students, calling themselves The Committee, have demanded that W&L remove the flags of the Confederacy from the campus and Lee Chapel, acknowledge and apologize for participating in chattel slavery, recognize Martin Luther King Day on the undergraduate campus and ban neo-Confederates from marching across campus to the chapel on Lee-Jackson Day.


If their demands are not met by Sept. 1, they will engage in civil disobedience.



Source: http://freenorthcarolina.blogspot.com/2014/04/7-w-students-demand-removal-of.html

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