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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...offensive. If someone says he or she is offended, that should be the end of the discussion. Furthermore, when thousands of people express their pain and hurt at the use of a symbol, there should be no need for them to validate their feelings. (The use of the Confederate flag and its offensiveness to African-Americans offers us another recent example...

Author: By Baratunde R. Thurston, | Title: The Name Game | 4/12/1997 | See Source »

...used to have a radio [behind the counter] but customers complained," he said. "They would come in here and we'd have fuckin' Black Flag blasting with swears 'n' stuff...

Author: By Richard M. Burns, | Title: Night Owls Flock To 24-Hour Haunts | 4/2/1997 | See Source »

Returning from a night out, Gaither saw flames soaring from a mobile home. The young black man smashed through the door to pull out Larry Leroy Whitten, 44, then revived the white man with mouth-to-mouth resuscitation, heedless of the Confederate battle flag fluttering overhead. Gaither was hailed for his race-blind heroism, but says, "I don't deserve the attention. Someone would do the same...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 31, 1997 | 3/31/1997 | See Source »

DIEHARD MARYLAND REBELS A federal judge lifts the state's ban on license plates that fly the Confederate battle flag...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Notebook: Mar. 10, 1997 | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

...Diane Feinstein received a similar classified report. Clinton said that had he known about the briefing, he would have had his aides "evaluate (it) and make recommendations about what, if any, changes we ought to make and what we should be alert to. It would have provoked a red flag on my part." Clinton ordered his top advisors to get to the bottom of why allegat ions of illegal Chinese involvement were not shared with him. The FBI, for its part, had no comment...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Need to Know | 3/10/1997 | See Source »

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