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Alabama City Votes Unanimously To Get Rid Of Confederate Monument
By Rachel Stoltzfoos The Birmingham Parks and Recreation board voted unanimously Wednesday to remove a monument to the Confederacy from a public park across the street from Birmingham City Hall and the Jefferson County Courthouse. Parks and Recreation Board member and former Birmingham Mayor Benard Kincaid told a local Fox affiliate he wants to respect history, but…
Jeb! Bush Thinks Confederate Battle Flag is a “Racist Flag”
By R. Brownell Jumping in with other 2016 contenders who already commented on South Carolina’s decision to bring down the southern cross (the Confederacy’s former battle flag), former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush threw in his two cents about the south’s old “Stars and Bars”: “The symbols were racist,” Bush reportedly said. “If you’re trying to…
Woman Who Says Confederate Flag Isn’t Racist Is Related To Director Of KKK
By: Laura Meyers Don’t you hate it when people call you out for being the racist pig that you really are? It’s so annoying. Anna Robb is a co-owner of a confederate flag-friendly store called Dixie Outfitters in Branson, Missouri with her husband, Nathan Robb. She says that flag “has nothing to do with slavery,”…
Why The Confederate Flag “Bans” Are Totally Constitutional
“To compel a man to furnish funds for the propagation of ideas he disbelieves and abhors is sinful and tyrannical.” – Thomas Jefferson by Micah J. Fleck [dropcap size=small]T[/dropcap]o all the naysayers out there in the liberty community complaining about how all these bans of Confederate flags as of late are somehow intrusive, big government force,…
Army Says There’s Just No Way It’ll Change Bases Named After Confederates
By Jonah Bennett The U.S. Army confirmed Wednesday it won’t be changing the titles of bases named after Confederate generals. For the military, the generals aren’t being honored because of their ideology, but because of their individual characters, Stars and Stripes reports. Following the shooting at a black church which left nine dead in Charleston, S.C.,…
Turns Out Folks Can Still Buy All That Confederate Gear On Foreign Amazons
By Blake Neff Published: June 24, 2015 Amazon has responded to the public outcry over the Confederate flag by announcing that it will take down all Confederate flag products from its online store. Sure enough, by Wednesday morning any product carrying either the Confederate battle flag or the flag of the Confederate States of America quickly disappeared from…
11 Items Amazon Isn’t Taking Down With The Confederate Flag
By Blake Neff Amazon has reacted to a surge in purchases of Confederate flags in the wake of the Charleston shooting by announcing it will yank all Confederate flag merchandise from its website. The decision came after EBay and Wal-Mart made similar decisions. However, plenty of other items some may consider “offensive” are still easily…
Confederate Flag Sales BOOMING After SC Leaders Call For Removal From State House Grounds
By Josh Fatzick Amazon is joining other big retailers, like Walmart and Sears, that announced they will ban sales of the Confederate flag, and other flag-related items from their shelves, despite the fact that sales appear to be booming on the website. TIME Deputy Tech Editor Alex Fitzpatrick reported that the online retail giant will ban all…
South Carolina Man Says Removing Confederate Flag is “Cultural Genocide”
By: Laura Meyers On CNN, Pat Hines, the chairman of the South Carolina League of the South, defended the confederate flag, and suggested that any motive to remove it from the state’s capital grounds would be “cultural genocide.” Whoops. In his defense and judging by his neckbeard, it looks like CNN probably found their guest by checking out…