Vandals target Confederate monuments in half-dozen states

FILE - This June 21, 2015, file photo shows a statue memorializing the Confederacy spray-painted with the message "Black Lives Matter" in...

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Vandals have targeted monuments dedicated to the leaders and soldiers of the Confederacy, painting the slogan “Black lives matter” on memorials in a half-dozen states where the landmarks stand tall in parks and outside government buildings.

The graffiti reflects the racial tension that permeates post-Ferguson America, more than a week after a white man was accused of shooting and killing nine black congregants at a Charleston, South Carolina, church.

Michael Allen, a lecturer in American culture studies at Washington University in St. Louis, compared the vandalism to the toppling of statues in Russia at the end of the Soviet empire.

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Blue
9 years ago

That’s a mater. Kinda like a tater, only different. 🙂 Maters matter, ya know…