Houston Congresswoman Sheila Jackson Lee demanded that Gov. Rick Perry denounce the approval of a Texas Confederate license plate during a recent Republican presidential debate. Hilary Shelton of the NAACP’s Washington Bureau joined Lee at a press conference held before the debate. “The rebel flag epitomized slavery,” Jackson Lee said. “It epitomized oppression. It epitomized lynching and all of the things that we worked so hard for people to move beyond.” The nine-member Texas Department of Motor Vehicles board is reconsidering the issue of whether state drivers should be able to purchase the vanity license plate.
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