Man who wants Confederate flags in US courts uses racial slur discussing Martin Luther King in car-crash interview

A man who failed in his bid to hang Confederate flags
in a US court used a racial slur when discussing
Martin Luther King in a car-crash interview.
Russell Walker, from South Carolina, said "Martin
Luther c**n" when he spoke about the civil rights
leader as a judge dismissed his legal challenge.
Apparently he meant to say King, and quickly
corrected himself.
Walker, who says Confederate flags were not a
"symbol of racism", said the remark was a mistake
but then only made things worse.
He told reporters outside court: "I don't believe [the
confederate flag] is a symbol of racism. I don't
believe it's a symbol of slavery.
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"That's my personal view but how they feel is their
business," he continued. "It would be ludicrous of me
to tell you how they feel.
"Hey, I go down the street I see Martin Luther c***."
Walker quickly corrects himself "I shouldn't say that. I
mean, Martin Luther King."
Without being questioned over use of the slur, Walker
continued: "Should I rip the signs down or insist they
take Martin Luther King Street down or the rest of
that stuff.
"That's a public thing I don't necessarily agree with it
but it's the way it is."
The remarks come amid furious protests over
Confederate monuments in the wake of violent
clashes across the US as the race controversy grips
the nation.
Earlier this month, paralegal Heather Heyer was killed
while protesting against far-right activisits in
Charlottesville who objected to the planned removal
of Confederate general Robert E Lee.
Several pro-slavery Civil War Confederacy monuments
have been removed by authorities fearing they spark
further violence as the race controversy grips the US.
A statue of a Confederate soldier in front of the old
Durham County Courthouse in Durham, North Carolina
was toppled during a protest on August 14.
While Maryland Governor Larry Hogan has called for
the removal of a state of US Supreme Court Chief
Justice Roger Brooke Taney in front of the Maryland
State House in Annapolis.
Taney was the author of the Dred Scott decision,
which declared that black people could not be US
citizens, a ruling since considered one of the worst in
American history.

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