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Confederate Flag

In a custody dispute, an appeals court in New York ruled that a mother must remove a rock near her driveway that has a small Confederate flag painted on it, finding that the mother must encourage her child to “embrace her mixed-race identity, rather than thrust her into a world that only makes sense through the tortured lens of cognitive dissonance.”

ALBANY, N.Y. — In a custody dispute, an appeals court in New York ruled that a mother must remove a rock near her driveway that has a Confederate flag painted on it, finding that the mother must encourage her child to “embrace her mixed-race identity, rather than thrust her into a world that only makes sense through the tortured lens of cognitive dissonance.”

Categories / Appeals, Civil Rights, Politics

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