Ted Nugent, Musician and NRA Board Member, Writes That U.S. Might be Better Had “South Won Civil War”

ColorOfChange, Largest Online African-American Civil Rights Movement Responds, Calls for NRA to Fire Nugent

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New York, NY—The following is a statement issued from Rashad Robinson, Executive Director of ColorOfChange, in response to Ted Nugent’s Washington Times column in which he says the US might have been better off if the Confederacy had won the Civil War:

“Ted Nugent’s suggestion that America would be better off if the confederacy had won the civil war is deeply offensive and has no place in mainstream political discourse. These comments were not spontaneous, but planned in advance, written and published by someone who helps lead the NRA as a board member. Does the NRA believe we’d be better off if the South had won the war and slavery still existed? The NRA needs to clarify its stance on slavery and fire Nugent immediately.”

Members of the media: Rashad Robinson is available for phone, radio and television interviews from New York City.

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With more than 800,000 members, ColorOfChange.org is the nation’s largest African-American online civil rights organization.

Ted Nugent, Musician and NRA Board Member, Writes That U.S. Might be Better Had “South Won Civil War”

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