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The most pathetic response to the Confederate flag removal
By Jarvis DeBerry
The Times-Picayune
... Burgess says, "It feels like we're going backwards. Everybody's all about equality." When the Confederate battle flag was finally lowered, a crowd of people watching it all, started chanting, "U-S-A! U-S-A! U-S-A!"
A slap in the face, she calls it.
It's generally poor form to laugh at another person's tears, but we all might be tempted to laugh at a woman who cries as she bemoans contemporary society's focus on equality and feels insulted by a chant of "U-S-A!" ...
http://www.nola.com/opinions/index.ssf/2015/07/south_carolina_confederate_fla.html
