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How about a memorial to lynching victims in your county?
Here's a partial list of NC victims by county:
Alamance county: John Jeffress 8/25/1920
Anson county: John Boggan 7/2/1885
Anson county: Luke Hough 8/21/1901
Beaufort county: James Walker 3/25/1902
Bertie county: John Collins 4/12/1883
Bertie county: Peter Bazemore 3/23/1918
Bladen county: Lyman Purdie 5/1/1892
Buncombe county: John Humphreys 7/15/1888
Buncombe county: Hezekiah Rankin 9/25/1891
Buncombe county: Bob Brackett 8/11/1897
Burke county: David Boone 9/11/1889
Burke county: — Lafayette 3/2/1898
Burke county: James Lafayette 3/2/1898
Cabarrus county: Joseph Kiser 5/29/1898
Cabarrus county: Thomas Johnson 5/29/1898
Camden county: Joe Barco 10/1/1892
Carteret county: Lewis Patrick 6/14/1899
Caswell county: Bud Mebane 10/3/1885
Chatham county: Harriet Finch 9/29/1885
Chatham county: Jerry Finch 9/29/1885
Chatham county: John Pattishill 9/29/1885
Chatham county: Lee Tyson 9/29/1885
Chatham county: Henry Jones 1/11/1899
Chatham county: Ernest Daniels 9/18/1921
Cleveland county: Van Canady 12/2/1888
Craven county: John Moore 8/27/1905
Craven county: Percy Berry 4/19/1932
Davidson county: Alfred Long 6/6/1886
Edgecombe county: Benjamin Hart 5/8/1887
Franklin county: Walter Elliott 8/20/1919
Franklin county: Powell Green 12/27/1919
Franklin county: Govan “Sweet” Ward 7/30/1935
Gaston county: Erwin McCullough 4/1/1884
Gaston county: John Sigmund 9/6/1889
Gaston county: Robert Melker 4/13/1941
Granville county: John Brodie 12/1/1881
Granville county: Shadrack Hester 12/1/1881
Granville county: Alonzo Smith 9/2/1888
Granville county: Henry Tanner 9/2/1888
Granville county: John Tanner 9/2/1888
Granville county: William Burnett 11/15/1892
Greene county: Joseph Black 4/5/1916
Guilford county: Eugene Hairston 8/25/1887
Halifax county: Manna Ponton 8/21/1903
Haywood county: George Ratliffe 3/5/1900
Hertford county: Kinch Freeman 12/23/1890
Iredell county: Jule Davidson 12/21/1878
Iredell county: Charles Campbell 10/16/1883
Johnston county: Charles Smith 12/24/1884
Johnston county: Jim Bailey 7/2/1901
Johnston county: Unnamed Negro 1/7/1908
Johnston county: James Wilson 1/28/1914
Jones county: Jerome Whitfield 8/14/1921
Lenoir county: Lazarus Rouse 8/1/1916
Lincoln county: Brother of Joseph Smith 1/29/1885
Mecklenburg county: Joseph McNeely 8/26/1913
Mecklenburg county: Willie McDaniel 6/29/1929
Mitchell county: Robert Chambers 4/21/1896
Moore county: George Rittle 3/20/1900
Nash county: J. C. Farmer 8/3/1946
Northampton county: Peter Mitchell 12/27/1901
Northampton county: Dick Whitehead 5/18/1904
Onslow county: John Daniels 2/6/1919
Pender county: Dock Rogers 8/27/1933
Person county: Edward Roach 7/7/1920
Richmond county: Dockery Johnson 9/20/1883
Richmond county: Duncan McPhatter 11/17/1892
Richmond county: Jim Greene 12/25/1897
Rockingham county: John Taylor 6/11/1881
Rockingham county: Unnamed Negro 10/8/1910
Rowan county: Lawrence White 11/8/1883
Rowan county: George Johnson 9/6/1884
Rowan county: Harrison Gillespie 6/11/1902
Rowan county: James Gillespie 6/11/1902
Rowan county: Jack Dillingham 8/6/1906
Rowan county: John Gillespie 8/6/1906
Rowan county: Nease Gillespie 8/6/1906
Rutherford county: Avery Mills 8/28/1900
Sampson county: Doyral Bryant 1/21/1881
Sampson county: Mack Best 9/6/1891
Stokes county: E. Hairstone 6/20/1881
Stokes county: J. Lindsey 6/20/1881
Union county: Edmund Davis 10/17/1881
Union county: Lee Stratten 3/4/1885
Union county: John Osborne 7/2/1903
Vance county: Bessie Perry 3/12/1915
Vance county: Child of Joe and Bessie Perry 3/12/1915
Wake county: George Taylor 11/5/1918
Warren county: Alfred Williams 1/24/1921
Warren county: Plummer Bullock 1/24/1921
Washington county: Jack Blount 1/26/1888
Washington county: Matthew Blount 1/26/1888
Washington county: Petterson Spruill 1/26/1888
Wayne county: Thomas Jones 8/25/1902
Wayne county: John Richards 1/12/1916
Wilson county: Unnamed Negro 8/20/1887
Wilson county: Oliver Moore 8/20/1930
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Of course, neo-Confederates would agree with us, wouldn't they, that such memorials should be defended since they are "a part of history"? 
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