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Hundreds of people taunted each other on the grounds of the South Carolina Statehouse during separate rallies staged by two groups from outside the state.
"You know, this flag's not racist. And I know a lot of people think it is, but it's really not."
"It's a bit of an embarrassment because of the connotations with it."
The story behind a hashtag that helped transform the nation's opinion at hyper-speed.
The rebel banner could come down within days.
As South Carolina's Capitol grounds and other jurisdictions decide the fate of their most prominent emblems of past oppression and contemporary reaction, Stone Mountain guarantees that at least one Confederate icon will loom over the South's largest city for as long into the future as mankind can foresee.
Think that if he were alive today, General Nathan Bedford Forrest would embrace Dylann Roof, the alleged killer of nine blacks in a Charleston Church who hoped to start a race war? Think again.