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From The Reporter's Notebook
TPM’s Sara Jerde wrote about a woman who was arrested in Colorado for burning the Confederate flag on suspicion of arson. The flag was burned in a pavilion in a public park, which police said posed a danger to the property and citizens in the area. She was arrested this week, though the event was held earlier this month. Police were aware of the event as it was going on, but were responding to a house fire down the street and did not stop the flag burning.
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From a TPM Prime member: "I'll just say that on the macro level, I consider the flags over state capitols, and any similar sort of state-sponsored endorsement of the Confederacy in a category of their own, separate from street or park names, old statues, and so forth. The former is an active advertisement by the government here and now, whereas names and monuments are simply relics of the past. So, removal of Confederate flags from government property doesn't necessarily mean that all names and monuments should be scrubbed from existence. It's up to each community to consider on a case-by-case basis whether a particular monument or name needs removal or new context. If I were in Charleston, I'd want Calhoun's statue relocated to a museum with proper context. The street name I'd be less worked-up about. But that's just me."
Related: A South Carolina Representative reminded conservatives that Robert E. Lee requested the Confederate flag be stowed away after his surrender.
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What We're Reading
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Many of the racial injustices we associate with the South are actually worse in the North. (The Washington Post)
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