Lukewarm to the appeal to relocate the Confederate monument at the county courthouse, county supervisor Harry Sanders made racist remarks in a conversation with The Dispatch after a Monday meeting. where he said blacks remain "dependent" since slavery. https://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=81782#.XujkNnGZXvc.twitter

"The only ones that are having the problems: Guess who? The African Americans. You know why?" he told me. "In my opinion, they were slaves. And because of that, they didn't have to go out and earn any money, they didn't have to do anything." https://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=81782

"Whoever owned them took care of them, fed them, clothed them, worked them. They became dependent, and that dependency is still there," he told me. "The Democrats right here who depend on the black vote to get elected, they make them dependent on them." https://www.cdispatch.com/news/article.asp?aid=81782