on January 5, 2016 in World News
Confederate graves vandalized in North Carolina cemetery
The backlash against US Confederate symbols spilled into a North Carolina cemetery when a number of graves were vandalized with anti-racist graffiti. Nine graves in the Confederate section of Historic Oakwood Cemetery in Raleigh were targeted just before the New Year, most of them belonging to high-ranking officials. Words such as “Slavery”, “White Supremacist”, “KKK” and “Not Heroes” were sprayed on the headstones, some of which were also splashed with red paint. The cemetery’s executive director Robin Simonton branded the non-violent civil disobedience a “cowardly act”. The cemetery, which is privately owned, contains the graves of hundreds of foot soldiers,… View Article
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