Tennessee

shenmue

(38,610 posts) Mon Mar 5, 2018, 10:17 PM Mar 2018

Tennessee school removes Confederate flag, lynching murals

https://www.cnn.com/2018/03/05/us/hanging-confederate-mural/index.html

From the article:

A painting of a Confederate flag and a mural depicting a lynching have been removed from the walls of a Tennessee school gymnasium.

The mural showed a white man, dressed in blue, hanging from a rope tied to a tree branch. Another person was standing nearby, in a red jersey, and holding a Confederate flag.

The painting was intended to depict an athletic team rivalry.

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Tennessee school removes Confederate flag, lynching murals (Original Post) shenmue Mar 2018 OP

Are you effing kidding me? Laffy Kat Mar 2018 #1

How the hell is it an elementary school has "The Rebels," TomSlick Mar 2018 #2

Laffy Kat

(16,990 posts)

1. Are you effing kidding me?

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Mar 5, 2018, 10:50 PM

Mar 2018

There was a lynching mural in a school? In 2018? The confederate flag is bad enough, but a lynching mural? OTOH, I am from TN, so I guess I'm not that surprised, except I'm sickened.

TomSlick

(13,092 posts)

2. How the hell is it an elementary school has "The Rebels,"

Reply to shenmue (Original post)

Mon Mar 5, 2018, 10:59 PM

Mar 2018

with the former Ole Miss Col Reb as its mascot?

http://sces.ccschools.k12tn.net/

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