Posted on 06/24/2020 5:43:07 AM PDT by Alas Babylon!
A lot of people are very angry at being told their heritage is evil, he said. Big corporations and big government telling them what to think makes them mad. Now you see them going after George Washington and Teddy Roosevelt, and thats not acceptable.
Place down in Branson - Dixie Outfitters - is getting the same kind of hassles.
If he was selling white flags, knee pads, and shoeshine kits, he would be getting high praise, and probably have long lines waiting to buy them.
Bump
The lefties will be coming after him soon enough
My brother and his wife went to Italy several years ago. He was surprised to see that the Stars and Bars were a popular item there in novelty stores.
Since the only market for those items are liberals, his business would suffer due to a lack of customers around his location.
The question isn’t so much about the Confederate flag as it is freedom and liberty.
Is a store owner allowed to sell such items?
The answer is yes. This is America. You can disagree with that flag but you’re not forced to go into this store and buy any.
People in this country are supposed to be free to choose. If it is a right to choose to kill a baby through abortion, then you have a right to choose to buy or own a Confederate flag.
I don’t own one, myself. I’m an Alabamian and never cared for it, one way or the other. But I’ll tell, y’all, I am very tempted to go up to this store and buy the biggest flag he’s got... For what $275? I think it might be worth it to put it in the back of my truck and drive around some. I probably won’t for personal reasons.
I have black friends and they do oppose the flag. I asked them, seriously, why?
They said not for the war or the Confederacy, they knew that was part of history. It was the Segregationists in 1940s and 50s who adopted this flag in their fight to keep Jim Crow laws in place. Now I know that’s not why most people fly it today but that is their perception.
It is only because those black folks are my friends and neighbors that I won’t wave this flag, but I will never condemn those who do, and will always be ready to defend their right to do so.
I live in rural good ole boy country Alabama. That’s not true.
Plenty of folks have this flag. Young fellas on the pickup trucks with one of those pickup bed flag stands. Mostly they’ll fly an Crimson Tide flag or an Auburn flag, especially during college football season, but lately I’ve been seeing a lot more of these with the Confederate flags instead.
I think they’re selling out as fast as they can make ‘em. It’s simply defiant freedom of speech. Those big flags aren’t cheap.
He is the most liberal person you will ever meet, BUT, he is also one of the staunchest defenders of the Confederate flag you will ever meet.
Sometimes cognitive dissonance works in positive ways.
I saw that story on KY3...
Even the biker has one.
These flags aren't cheap, either. Several thousand bucks in this one shot alone.
Not because of my heritage (obviously), but because Ive about had it with the PC groupthink.
Notice all the trucks with Confederate Flags are not inside watching Bubba lose or home watching NASCAR or buy NASCAR carp. NASCAR is the loser.
Glad to see the old Georgia Flag on the wall in the picture. I still have on that flew at my workplace before the new worlds ugliest flag became the new GA flag
Lock and load.
Spirit of Atlanta Drum & Bugle Corps, ‘83-’86. When we went to Retreat, which is when all the corps gather on the field for the score announcements, our bass drum section would stack the drums and hang Confederate flags off each side.
You’ll find more than just a few flying in E. Central, MN. Some of us had ancestors, who fought on both sides. We chose to honor them all.
Others are fed up with the speech police, and fly them in defiance.
Buy Confederate flags! Be proud of Robert E Lee, J E B Stuart, Stonewall Jackson, and the hundreds of General Officers and field grade officers who gave their all for the rights of states to settle their own affairs.
Segregationists were all DEMOCRATS. Remember that! Democrats fought against the Civil Rights Act And the Voter Rights Act. Don’t forget that.
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