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Mike Lovitt is now officially a Boy Scout. Lovitt has been the owner of Chick-fil-A Bristow for the past 10 years and is retired Army Lt. Colonel, having served 30 years. Lovitt’s dream of becoming a Boy Scout manifested at a young age during the 1950s as a young boy in Hawaii. Lovitt, who is African American, didn’t have to worry about prejudice in Hawaii because many had a different nationality. It was only until his family moved to North Carolina where suddenly he couldn’t fulfill his dream of becoming a Boy Scout. When he wanted to join Boy Scouts, the leaders cam
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You hear again and over that the scouts were officially racist (some accounts are more kind, and say scouting was in practice racist). Is this true? I take this to be an urban legend: it's something that's been said (people perhaps getting the notion from old photos) and repeated to the point where it's turned into fact.