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Confederate Flag Ban – Supporters Rally At Stone Mountain In Georgia
In the US, a mountain carving of three confederate leaders has renewed the debate on racism.
Confederate flags were flown on Saturday at Stone Mountain in Georgia. It’s the latest rally since the church shooting in Charleston, South Carolina last month that killed nine black churchgoers. Many Americans assumed the Confederate flag was retired for good after governors in South Carolina and Alabama removed it from their statehouses this summer and presidential candidates from both parties declared it too divisive for official display.
But people still fly it, and not just in the South, despite announcements by leading flag-makers and retailers that they will no longer sell products showing the secessionist battle flag.
Some who display it are motivated by pride in their ancestry or enthusiasm for Southern history. Others see it as a symbol of their right to challenge to authority in general, and the federal government in particular. And some have hoisted Confederate flags in recent weeks precisely because it’s generating controversy again.
“You can’t take it out on the flag — the flag had nothing to do with it,” said Ralph Chronister, who felt inspired to dig out his old Confederate flag, which is decorated with a bald eagle, and hang it from his weather-beaten front porch on a heavily traveled street in Hanover, Pennsylvania. “I’ve got nothing against black people; I’ve got nothing against anyone else, “I’m just very proud of my Southern heritage. That’s why I fly it.”
Have you heard the new one about how Bill and Hillary Clinton’s decades of civil rights advocacy was just a cover for their closet Confederate sympathies? But the national debate over the future of the Confederate flag that flies in front of the state’s capitol has unwittingly given rise to one of the more bizarre Clinton conspiracy theories to date: that Bill and Hillary Clinton, despite decades as civil rights advocates and their right-wing caricature as Northeast liberal elites, are closet Confederate sympathizers. Ms Clinton said she appreciates the calls from South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley and other politicians to stop flying the Confederate flag on the grounds of the state capitol. deleted emails, the paid speeches, the Friends of Bill you thought went away with the Y2K bug
From a bikini to a bottle opener to a belt buckle, the Confederate flag shows up on all sorts of merchandise online. eBay said it would ban the sale of the flags and “many items containing this image, Just hours after eBay’s announcement, an Amazon official, who was not authorized to comment publicly, confirmed that Amazon is pulling down Confederate flag merchandise.
Retailers Walmart and Sears also announced they would stop selling items depicting the Confederate flag. a search for “Confederate flag” on eBay yielded thousands of results falling under cellphones and accessories, sporting goods, jewelry and watches, crafts, computers, even pet supplies. A similar search on Amazon yielded nearly 30,000 results. If Jeb Bush, Marco Rubio, and the other serious contenders for the Republican nomination haven’t yet contacted Nikki Haley, the governor of South Carolina state capitol in Columbia Dixie Flag Company in San Antonio had sold 25 Confederate flags in 24 hours, according to the company’s president,
2012 re-election campaign. Hillary clinton had her own brand of Confederate merchandise in 2008. Indeed, Obama had his own Confederate flag campaign badge, which states “Where the confederate flag still flies, we have built a powerful coalition of African Americans and white Americans.
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