"In the sixties, Chapel Hill still allowed for displays commemorating the Confederacy."

Are you saying this is an illegal or prohibited activity now?

Thanks for catching that. What I'm saying is that now, people don't really do that. It's in no way illegal or prohibited. I imagine that if someone got enough people together in Chapel Hill to put on a Confederate march down the main street, there wouldn't be a single law saying that they can't. I'll need to go correct that.

LATER: Fixed. I'm not gonna put it in the blog because I don't know if it's factual, but I recall someone also saying that the KKK within the past ten years got permission from the town to block off parts of the street as part of a protest. That might've just been a rumor because I never saw anything about.

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That is possible. Any group that wants to hold an event or party on city streets can ask and receive permission from the city in exchange for some guarantees for public safety and sanitation, usually with some bond money held in escrow to cover any unexpected expenses to the city.

I can also visualize nobody showing up for this event because this is the type of thing three or four people could organize. It would get little advertising. Chapel Hill does not want to be labeled a backward hick town.

Right. I think that because of the university, Chapel Hill tries to separate itself from the rest of the state in terms of mentality. People who call themselves liberal adhere to their beliefs with almost fanatical zeal. A friend of mine commented that he sees the same kind of blind devotion to secular and political ideals in Chapel Hill that he saw in smaller NC towns when people followed religious ideals. I also know a Quaker guy who's under the impression that everything is perfectly fine in Chapel Hill because it's not 'redneck country.' I think that if the Duke Lacrosse case has taught this area anything, it should've taught us that the South is still the South. Chapel Hill was a racially segregated community during the 20th century just like a thousand other places, and as much as people want to believe otherwise, some things have not changed.

They've released more photos today, so I'll be posting them. I also hope to find a thoughtful essay about race relations in Chapel Hill. Thanks again for reading and replying. And just I suspected, this is getting ugly quickly.

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It is not just the South. The Clintons in their Obama attack ads are making his skin color several tones darker then it really is. Studies show that even blacks will view with suspicion a young dark skinned black male. Racism has become engrained in society and dirty tricks like this don't help.

Wow, good point. I haven't seen the attack ads but I'm very curious now. Always appreciated <3

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Our Wilmington paper, "The Morning Star" has put Obama's Mississippi win on the second page! I hate to say this, but I believe the fix is in. Ms Clinton will be given the nomination by a not so Democratic party. The media is merely conditioning the public for the event. You wait and see.

Now that's a frightening thought. That's possible since it looks like neither of them will get the delegates they need. After all, Hubert Humphrey got the nomination in the 70's without winning a single state. It would almost be laughable if they panned both of them and handed off the nomination to Gravel. I say 'almost' because that thought is a bit spooky.

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Even after the suspects were arrested, it's still terrifies me. What did she do to get killed?

Also, I know this is a late comment, but you know me. On May 5th, about a day before final exams started, a UNC Charlotte student named Irina was killed and her body was found next to her car in a lake. What I find scary is that she was in my Anthropology class the semester before.

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