Byron Thomas Has Decided NOT To Hang His Confederate Flag After All

“Only an ignorant/racist person can make that flag a racist symbol,” he said in an e-mail.



The 2011 North Augusta High School graduate displayed the flag after Labor Day and took it down just before Thanksgiving, after he was asked to by campus officials because they had received complaints.
University officials later decided he could hang the flag because they did not want to inhibit his freedom of speech.

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