Posted on 07/09/2015 3:41:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ORLANDO, Fla. — A day after Disney's Hollywood Studios removed a Bill Cosby statue, Disney's Epcot has removed a Confederate flag that was hanging at the theme park's American Adventure theater.
Robert Niles from Theme Park Insider writes:
The flag removed from Epcot is not the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia most commonly associated with the Confederacy, thanks to its adoption in early 20th century by the Ku Klux Klan and later revival in the 1950s and 60s by southerners in opposition to the civil rights movement. The flag that had hung in the American Adventure was the last official flag of the Confederate States of America, a white field with a red stripe on one end and small representation of the familiar battle flag in the opposite corner.
The move from Epcot comes on the same day that the South Carolina legislature voted to remove the Confederate flag from their Statehouse grounds following the murderous massacre that left 9 people dead at a black church in Charleston, SC, three weeks ago. The man who stands accused of that murder spree posed with pictures of the Confederate flag as a symbol of his belief of white superiority to blacks.
Disney removed the Bill Cosby statue from an exhibition of Hollywood celebrities this week following the revelation of sworn 2005 testimony from the once-revered comic that he'd got drugs and used them to have sex with women, CNN reported.
The bronze bust was part of Disney's Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza in the center of the theme park and includes such TV stars as Lucille Ball and Oprah Winfrey.
The American Adventure show in Epcot has won praise from many visitors for its sensitive handling of the American Civil War, using the original song "Two Brothers" to illustrate a metaphorical split in an American family caused by the war.
Is Six Flags down to five?
Will we next be treated to historic photos of the General Lee car, or of the SC capitol, with a blank roof, or with painted in sky and clouds? Photographs have not been evidence since the days of Stalin.
No, they will replace it with the homosexual flag.
We’re living in dangerous times people..
Hope America wakes up soon!! wishfull thinking..
Fine. But when is the anniversary edition of “Song of the South” coming out?
Is Disney/Hollywood had to remove statues, pictures and Stars on Hollywood Boulevard because those actors and actresses committed moral and criminal offenses, you’d have a ghost town except for John Wayne and Bob Hope and Jimmy Stewart, that’s Brigadier General Stewart to you libs.
Re a Harvey Milk car. You’re gonna need a longer tailpipe.
I’d prefer a Milk Duds car, myself.
So, what flag will they use to represent the correct history of the time? Hmmmm? I mean maybe it should be the Union Jack— tut, tut.
This from a company run... literally, by queers. Everywhere.
Maladjusted little pervs who rip off Central Florida every day. Active agents in the continuing tyranny of the progressive, fundamentally transformed, re-written US.
Not for long. There is a limit.
A short stubby one will do nicely.
Nice model of the remade General Lee.
With today’s technology, they could probably cut it in for the car jump scenes.
Since the gays are forcing Religious people against their will to bake cakes, isn't this the equivalent of the Nazi soldiers making the rabbis cut their curls off?
When do us Christians have to start wearing Stars on our clothing or face prison time?
The program at that venue is a beautiful one that always brings tears to my eyes. I make the effort to see it every time we visit Disney/Epcot. It’s remarkable that this program ceases to value the historical context of the Confederate flag, especially given the focus of the segment “Two Brothers”. Insanity prevails. Walt must be spinning in his grave.
I heard that joke / question on Mark Davis’ radio show.
How long before the Mexicans force California to junk the Bear Republic state flag? That’s offensive to them, and it incorporates the Lone Star as a nod to the Texas Republic, too.
American History - Lost, Stolen and Strayed.
To the best of my knowledge it has never been used by anyone as an anti-civil rights symbol.
I predict any battlefield re-enactments on federal park land will no longer feature the stars and bars, from this point on.
If no confederacy then no civil war. If no civil war no slavery... But it’s still Bush’s fault and whites are racist.
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