Ransom note threatens to make Confederate monument from Alabama into toilet

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A representative of the United Daughters of the Confederacy on March 20 reported that the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair had gone missing in Selma, Alabama.

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The strange saga began on March 20, when the United Daughters of the Confederacy reported the Jefferson Davis Memorial Chair had gone missing from a Selma cemetery. District Attorney Michael Jackson said an email signed "White Lies Matter" was sent to media outlets Monday claiming to be from the person, or people, who took the chair.

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The email said the chair will be returned only if the United Daughters of the Confederacy agrees to display a banner at their Richmond, Virginia, headquarters bearing a quote from a Black Liberation Army activist on Friday, the anniversary of the South's surrender in the Civil War. If they don't, the chair gets turned into a toilet, the email said.

"Jefferson Davis doesn't need it anymore. He's long dead. ... Like most Confederate monuments, it mostly exists to remind those who's freedom had to be purchased in blood, that there still exists a portion of our country that is more than willing to continue to spill blood to avoid paying that debt down," the note said.

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