Confederate monument defaced in Alabama
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MONTGOMERY, Ala., Nov. 17 (UPI) -- A Civil War memorial on the grounds of the Alabama statehouse was vandalized, with the face of a Confederate soldier painted over.
The monument was also spray painted with the slogan "N.T. 11 11 31," The Montgomery Advertiser reported. Mark Potok of the Southern Poverty Law Center said the slogan was a reference to Nat Turner, who led a slave rebellion in Virginia in 1831.
Potok said the vandalism was not a hate crime.
"It's more an attack on the principle of the old Confederacy, but not to all white people in general," he said. "If these vandals had written 'death to whitey' or 'all whites must die' it would have been a hate crime because it attacked an entire class of people."
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Gotta love the omniscient Mister Potok...
He doen't know the vanadals, but he damn well knows their intentions because the vandals weren't specific enough...
