In Charleston's aftermath, hope and hate descend on tiny Hillsborough, NC

On July 23rd, North Carolina Governor Pat McCrory (R) signed into law Senate Bill 22, the  Cultural History Artifact Management and Patriotism Act of 2015, barring the removal of "objects of remembrance" from public property, defining such objects as:

a monument, memorial, plaque, statue, marker, or display of a permanent character that commemorates an event, a person, or military service that is part of North Carolina's history.

That is to say, a Confederate memorial.

Yesterday, in the charming and history-steeped community of Hillsborough, NC (pop. 6,000), home to substantial progressive and LGBT communities, the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP and its president, Rev. Dr. William J. Barber, staged a rally of some 400 attendees to protest this law, as well as to proactively address a 'Southern Heritage' rally to be held on the same spot this Saturday by battle flag-waving members of a small group calling itself Orange County Taking Back Orange County.

Every single speaker at the NAACP event had something powerful and remarkable to say.