A microphone was cut off for about two minutes during Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter s keynote speech at a Memorial Day ceremony in Hudson, Ohio as he spoke about the slave origins of the holiday.
Organizers admitted they cut the microphone of retired Army Lt. Col. Barnard Kemter’s microphone during a Memorial Day speech about the Black history roots of the holiday.
A ceremony organizer turned off a microphone when a retired Army lieutenant colonel began sharing a story about freed Black slaves honoring deceased soldiers shortly after the end of the Civil War.