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Providing for Consideration of H.R. 6, 21st Century Cures Act

Floor Speech

Date: July 9, 2015
Location: Washington D.C.
Issues: Arts, Entertainment, and History

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Mr. Speaker, the Southern strategy was and is
a Republican strategy of gaining political support for its political
candidates by appealing to regional and racial tensions in this country
based on the history of slavery, the history of the Civil War, racism,
and segregation. That is a history that is indefensible, and so is the
Confederate battle flag which represents those attitudes.

I call upon my fellow colleagues in the Republican Party to denounce
this Southern strategy once and for all and to do what it takes to
affirm the tide of this country, which is to do away with that symbol
of oppression and racial animist, the Confederate battle flag.

Let's remove that flag from our national cemeteries, from our Park
Service, places of purchasing memorabilia.

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