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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news...ederate-symbols-karl-oliver-lynching-comments
A Republican state lawmaker in Mississippi, the last remaining state in the US to carry the Confederate battle emblem within its official flag, has posted an incendiary threat on social media calling for those removing Confederate monuments from public display to be lynched.
Karl Oliver, a funeral director from Winona Mississippi who represents the 46th district of the state, made his explosive remarks on Facebook. He began by lambasting the recent events in New Orleans, in neighboring Louisiana, which saw the last of its Confederate monuments – a statue of the south’s civil war commander Gen Robert E Lee – taken away on Friday in a move by local officials to end the visible celebration of white supremacy.
Oliver called the action in New Orleans “heinous and horrific”, and likened it to Nazi-era book burning. He went on to make his threat against anyone wanting to “destroy historical monuments of OUR HISTORY”, saying: “They should be LYNCHED!”
Oliver’s district includes Money, Mississippi, the small town where Emmett Till, aged 14, was brutally murdered after talking to a white woman in a grocery store.
Oliver’s lynching remark has been strongly rebuked by fellow Mississippi Republicans. The governor, Phil Bryant, called his language unacceptable and said it “has no place in civil discourse”.