Notes From Plague Island

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The Flags Of Our Fathers

plagueislanders
Jan 07, 2021
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“Flags are bits of coloured cloth that governments use first to shrink-wrap people’s minds and then as ceremonial shrouds to bury the dead.” Arundhati Roy said in 2002.

It was the Confederate flag bei…

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