Fmr. Dem Rep. and CNN’s Banfield Battle over Conf. Flag: ‘It’s Not a Southern Sin!’

Banfield: ‘White supremacy is not nonsense!’

‘It’s Not a Southern Sin!': Ex-Dem Rep. and CNN’s Banfield Battle over Confederate Flag (Mediaite)

Former Democratic Congressman Ben Jones (GA) got into a heated argument with CNN’s Ashleigh Banfield today over the Confederate flag, with Jones insisting that slavery and the flag are not “Southern sins.”

Jones––who some of you might remember played Cooter on The Dukes of Hazzard––argued that the Confederate flag may have been used by racists and other “horrible people,” but on that TV show and elsewhere, the flag is used in a “positive context.”

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