iredell county, north carolina
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Family Member of Robert E. Lee Joins Fight to Have Confederate Statue Removed
That we even have to debate whether a statue of Robert E. Lee should exist tells us how backwards many people in America are. Of course, four years of Donald Trump and his racism certainly didn’t help. If people are willing to travel to Washington, D.C., to take down the government, they certainly aren’t going…
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KKK Continues to Harass Confederate Monument Protesters in North Carolina
A woman who advocated for the removal of a Confederate monument from a North Carolina courthouse has been continually harassed by the KKK for doing so. According to WCCB, Genesis Houpe found a Confederate flag hung outside her home last weekend. The flag comes only a few weeks after Houpe found a KKK flyer outside…