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The News & Record in Greensboro – the region’s largest newspaper – has a story on the front page of today’s edition about last night’s resolution by the Rockingham County Board of Commissioners to restore the Confederate Soldiers Monument in downtown Reidsville (see earlier post here).

For some reason or another Joe Gamm – the reporter who wrote the story – chose to include the following in his article…

“After a court approved replacing the monument, vandals spray-painted the words ‘Monument is coming back’ on an auto body shop run by an African American businessman who outspokenly opposed returning the statue to its original spot.”

Could somebody please explain to me: What does the above reference by Mr. Gamm have anything… anything at all… to do with what happened to the Confederate monument from the time of the accident in 2011 up ’til today?

Because I can’t find ...

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