Delaware town again votes to fund Confederate flag-flying museum

Joe Lawson with the Southern Delaware Alliance for Racial Justice was extremely important of council members who voted sure. “Disgrace on you. You symbolize what has divided and harm and brought American retaining and stored America from being all that could possibly be,” he stated.

Coby Owens, with the Delaware NAACP, echoed Lawson’s outrage. “It appears as if you simply don’t know what you’re doing up there. And you must in all probability resign, you see, as a result of but once more, you all have determined to uphold white supremacy. You’ve determined to take a seat up there and present your racist true selves as you voted for this piece of this test to go to the museum,” he stated.

Council member Angela Townsend voted for sending the cash to the museum however says that she’s not a racist.

“I’ve been yelled at. I’ve been referred to as each title below the solar,” she stated. “I speak to people who reside on the town. They usually’re for the flag they usually’re for the flag as a result of they take into account it historical past. Please don’t erase our historical past.”

Owens strongly disagreed.

“My ancestors have been crushed whereas this flag waved over their our bodies. My ancestors have been hung, my folks have been in chains, and the bloodiest warfare in American historical past was fought with the other aspect in opposition to freedom and unity waving that flag,” he stated. “It’s unthinkable that this brazen image of white supremacy continues to fly in 2022.”