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EBay, PayPal, Amazon Blasted for Sales of Confederate Items

Tori Richards

Confederate monuments have been coming down across America over the past two years, but these actions caused little fanfare until August 12, when a riot broke out involving removal of Robert E. Lee’s statue in Charlottesville, VA. So, effigies of dozens more have come down or are in the process.

Now a petitioner on Change.org has set his sights on three new targets: eBay, PayPal and Amazon.com for “actively supporting racist sellers and buyers.” More than 7,800 people have signed the petition, which was started by a Texas man named John Cohen.

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