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Some of my best friends are ignorant redneck cheerleaders

Published 12/11/06

The story: A Kentucky high school is rife with Confederate symbols. [Link updated 2/26/2007 to one that works.]

The quote:

“To us it’s not about the hatred,” said Tiffany Owens, an 18-year-old cheerleader at Allen Central High School in eastern Kentucky. “I have colored friends around here and they never say anything.”

Update (12/12):: Steve Gilliard points out a couple of things. First, that Kentucky not only didn’t secede and was therefore not part of the Confederacy, but that more Kentuckians fought for the Union in the Civil War than for the CSA.

Further, he quotes historian Ken Burns, who points out that most of the states that adopted the Confederate naval flag (the “Stars and Bars”) did so in the 1950s during the desegregation movement. Ergo, the flag was about preserving segregation, not about anyone’s heritage.

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