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Alabama flag company begins Confederate flag production in-store, over 1,000 sold on first day
Alabama.com ^ | 06/26/15

Posted on 06/27/2015 8:40:18 PM PDT by Enlightened1

After the manufacturer decided to no longer supply Confederate flags to her business, Alabama Flag and Banner owner Belinda Kennedy decided to take matters into her own hands.

Starting early Friday morning, Belinda and the employees at Alabama Flag and Banner began producing Confederate flags in-store using their own materials and equipment.

And just as soon as they hit the machines, the orders came pouring in.

"I feel like my responsibility to my customers is to fulfill their needs when they want it, and I had customers wanting it and I wasn't going to turn them away as I felt like I had been turned away," Kennedy said.

Sales for the Confederate flag spiked for her business on Tuesday, the owner said, as the flag faced new controversy after a man confessed to killing nine people in a Charleston, S.C. church last week. The shooter, Dylann Roof, appeared on a white supremacist website holding a Confederate flag.

Although the flag is perceived by some as a symbol of hate following the church shooting, Alabama Flag and Banner will continue to sell it to their customers.

As of 3:45 p.m. on Friday, the business reported over 1,000 sales, with orders continuously rolling in, both online and in-store.

"It's simply a historic flag," Kennedy commented. "It's not hate, it's history...and the people that are making it a racial issue are pushing an agenda." 1 / 5 Employees begin production on Confederate flags at Alabama Flag and Banner in Huntsville Friday morning, June 26, after the business' manufacturer decided to no longer supply the flag. (Sarah Cole/scole@al.com) Sarah Cole | scole@al.com

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Politics/Elections; US: Alabama
KEYWORDS: 1000; alabama; confederateflag; firstday
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1 posted on 06/27/2015 8:40:18 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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Here is the video at the link,

http://video-embed.al.com/services/player/bcpid1949044313001?bctid=4324558316001&bckey=AQ~~,AAAAPLMIMAE~,kKetLjW2WxUgiRmvwWvrX1zHOEtf9iIT


2 posted on 06/27/2015 8:41:00 PM PDT by Enlightened1
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To: Enlightened1

Outstanding! The cowards that refuse to sell these flags for PC reasons will see others get the profits that the cowards would normally get. Cowardice in the face of PC has its price.


3 posted on 06/27/2015 8:43:57 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Enlightened1

Send the flags to SCOTUS.


4 posted on 06/27/2015 8:44:35 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Enlightened1

And made in the USA. :)


5 posted on 06/27/2015 8:45:08 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Enlightened1

Good!


6 posted on 06/27/2015 8:46:14 PM PDT by Guenevere (If the foundations are destroyed, what can the righteous do........Psalms 11:3)
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To: Paladin2

I will guess that the flags she was originally buying, may have been imported.

This is a good step, in my opinion.

Buy American, and stand up against liberal thought control.

Not bad at all.


7 posted on 06/27/2015 8:46:22 PM PDT by Cringing Negativism Network (http://www.census.gov/foreign-trade/balance/c5700.html)
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To: Enlightened1

Bravo! I hope she sells a million and more! That’s showin’ ‘em lady.


8 posted on 06/27/2015 8:47:10 PM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network
Nothing like rebeĺlion to further personal liberty.
9 posted on 06/27/2015 8:48:49 PM PDT by Paladin2 (Ive given up on aphostrophys and spell chek on my current device...)
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To: Enlightened1

While this fight goes on over the Confederate Flag, the ISIS flag is being hoisted at the White House.


10 posted on 06/27/2015 8:48:49 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Let’s find out if Google starts purging the website from their pages.


11 posted on 06/27/2015 8:49:10 PM PDT by max americana (fired liberals in our company last election, and I laughed while they cried (true story))
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To: Enlightened1

I hope they end up making as much or more than the pizza place that got the Gaystapo treatment.


12 posted on 06/27/2015 8:52:47 PM PDT by spodefly (This is my tag line. There are many like it, but this one is mine.)
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To: Enlightened1

http://alabamaflag.com/


13 posted on 06/27/2015 8:56:33 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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CONFEDERATE BATTLE FLAG

Confederate Battle Flags

These heavy weight nylon flags are finished with canvas heading and grommets and reinforced fly hems. They represent an important part of American History.

SIZE EACH
2’x3’ $25.00
3’x5’ 40.50
4’x6’ 63.90
5’x8’ 85.00


14 posted on 06/27/2015 8:59:56 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
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To: Enlightened1

Let’s see if they get audited.


15 posted on 06/27/2015 9:00:04 PM PDT by cmj328 (We live here.)
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To: Enlightened1

I have always considered the Confederate flag to be in the same category as a velvet painting of Elvis Presley, but I am going to buy one and hopefully have it in time to hang next to Old Glory on the 4th.


16 posted on 06/27/2015 9:03:10 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("One man with a gun can control a hundred without one." -- Vladimir Lenin)
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To: Jet Jaguar

Nice. I’ll have to make a purchase or three.


17 posted on 06/27/2015 9:09:57 PM PDT by RandallFlagg ("When you have to shoot, SHOOT! Don't talk." --Tuco)
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To: UCANSEE2

***the ISIS flag is being hoisted at the White House.**

After yesterday you sure it’s not the buttplug flag seen on CNN?


18 posted on 06/27/2015 9:18:12 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Jet Jaguar

As a New Orleans native, half Acadian and half Irish in ancestry, I consider myself a Son of the South. Never flew the St Andrews cross, but these events tell me it’s time.


19 posted on 06/27/2015 9:27:50 PM PDT by Noumenon (Resistance. Restoration. Retribution.)
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To: Enlightened1

A Lois Lerner type is currently going over their tax returns.

But I say she deserves a good old rebel yell!


20 posted on 06/27/2015 9:28:17 PM PDT by VerySadAmerican (I'll vote for a democrat before I'll vote for a rino.)
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