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Taylor Medley offers an alternative viewpoint Saturday to neo-Confederate Tara Brandau of Florida, a co-organizer of Saturday’s rally on Monument Avenue to preserve the statue of Lee and other Confederates.

Taylor Medley offers an alternative viewpoint Saturday to neo-Confederate Tara Brandau of Florida, a co-organizer of Saturday’s rally on Monument Avenue to preserve the statue of Lee and other Confederates.

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‘Racists go home!’

Members of Tenn.-based neo-Confederate group met by hundreds of chanting counterprotesters at Saturday’s Monument Avenue rally

A potentially volatile “Heritage Not Hate” rally led by a neo-Confederate group turned into a war of words Saturday as the small, but armed band found itself outnumbered by hundreds on Richmond’s Monument Avenue. The Tennessee-based group, CSA II: The New Confederate States of America, called the rally to show their support for the statue of Confederate Robert E. Lee as city leaders wrestle with whether the Confederate monuments on the tree-lined street should be removed or left up “with context.”