The story is here online.
http://www.richmond.com/news/virginia/article_72691a31-c659-510f-a770-47e471a8c9b0.html
Originally the family had accepted the marker for their ancestor, but has since wised up.
This family isn't unique, there are a lot of African Americans like this who would be flattered to have a Confederate memorial or honor. That is why a lot of these Confederate memorials and holidays and flags persist in the South, there are African Americans who don't mind the Confederacy.
When there was a vote in Mississippi about the state's flag which has a Confederate battle flag on it there were places where a clear majority of African Americans voted to keep the Mississippi flag as it is.
I don't know if this represents a trend or not. I suspect some family members and African Americans in the community expressed some opinion to the family and that got them to thinking.
I don't know though.
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