Artist plans to lynch Confederate flag
/The Confederate flag as interpreted by artist John Sims
is pink and purple, hung by a noose or colored in the red, black and
green of black nationalism.But it is the Florida man's plan to hold a
mock lynching of a Confederate flag when his exhibition opens at a
Gettysburg College art gallery early next month that has triggered a
campaign to cancel the show. Sims describes his work as an examination
of the power of symbols. In his case, passion about the flag has
generated dozens of e-mail and phone complaints to the school, the
borough and the artist himself. [more] 
