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.
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