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Did you know that it’s Confederate Heritage Month in Alabama? Eight states still have special Confederate holidays, but Alabama bolsters its Confederate Memorial Day (which popped up this Monday) with a month-long celebration of all that is slave-holding and treasonous. This gave the Alabama Secretary of State John Merrill another opportunity to play things Confederate sympathizers say. “Are you going to take a bulldozer to the monument and forget what people fought for to preserve a way of life that makes us special and unique?” … Civil rights groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, slammed the remark as “shameful.” But in a follow-up conversation with ThinkProgress, Merrill explained that the “way of life” he celebrates is based on Confederate soldiers’ independent spirit, not their advocacy for slavery. Special equals “Independent spirit.” So, it’s the treason he likes, not the slavery?  “When we have things happen in our state, we don’t rely on the federal government to come take care of us,” he said.

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