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Weary, 54, listened respectfully and then told his story. When he was growing up, that flag meant he wouldn't ride the nice new bus to the better school. It meant he wouldn't live on the right side of the tracks. It meant his relatives could cook and clean for white people but couldn't sit at the same table. "And I was taught that the reason we seceded from the North was to maintain that system," Weary says. He says that through his friendship with Paris, he has understood the history-and-heritage argument for the first time...
...accused of slaughtering black Union soldiers who surrendered in a battle at Fort Pillow, Tenn. He went on to become the first Imperial Wizard of the K.K.K. Winter, now 79, began his political career as a segregationist but today is one of the most eloquent proponents of a new flag as a symbol...
Burris is optimistic despite divisive issues like the cemetery flag. In 1991, when he ran for city council, Stone Mountain's population was 15% black. Now, with blacks accounting for more than 60%, it is increasingly multicultural. Recently the city council helped some 400 Kosovo refugees settle here. "I'm as proud of that as probably anyone would be of their ancestors fighting," he says. "I'm not saying racism is gone. But we're beyond having the challenge of racism to deal with. We have to learn how to live in a multicultural society...
...successfully defended two Black Panthers accused of killing a white policeman in Louisiana. Venable took pay from the Black Panthers, McCurdy says, and gave it to the K.K.K. But that's a long time ago now. Too long for some black residents here to worry about. Let the rebel flag fly over those graves, says Ralph Shipp. "That's all right. They are dead, and it's a thing of the past. Let's move...
...nonvet and nonjournalist, he got his start at Southern Partisan by writing about the Sons of Confederate Veterans as a member and officer. Sullivan is Christian, antiabortion and a supporter of small, decentralized government. His magazine is all those things and also a passionate defender of the Confederate flag. Sullivan says it's fair to call the publication right-wing with a Southern twist. But not racist...