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White supremacist website ‘slips through’ government commission

The chairman of the Georgia Civil War Commission told 11Alive reporter Doug Richards that linking to a white supremacist website from a state government Facebook page was a mistake — but it’s a mistake he can’t explain. “We’re not… trying to put anything on that Facebook page that’s racist, hurtful or in bad taste. I’m not saying something did not slip through,”chairman John Culpepper told 11Alive. And despite Culpepper’s claims that Georgia’s Civil War Commission is “not there

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Georgia Civil War Commission official fights ‘war to save American culture’

Georgia’s Civil War Commission is a real thing. Our state government, it turns out, runs a commission to “coordinate planning, preservation, and promotion of structures, buildings, sites, and battlefields” related to the Civil War. The vice-chair of Georgia’s Civil War commission — reappointed in 2012 by Lt. Gov. Casey Cagle — is Charles Kelly Barrow. He is also the national Commander-in-Chief of the Sons of Confederate veterans. As the AJC reports, Barrow is on a war path after