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Batson advanced in the former cradle of the confederacy.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) Remnants of the confederacy are still heavily highlighted all over Virginia, which closes its courts and other government offices on Lee-Jackson day, has the miles-long [Robert E.] Lee Highway that stops just a half mile from Washington, D.C., has the confederate flag prominently displayed on many trucks, has a confederate soldier statue standing guard outside the Loudoun County courthouse in northern Virginia, without a Martin Luther King, Jr., statue or anything else nearby the statue to promote a color-blind justice system. Virginians can warn me all they want that I will come across as a carpetbagger to complain about this state of affairs, but the discomfort continues as I recall the slavery, severe racism and Jim Crow that drenched the state's soil right into the 1960's...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).