Confederate flag demand has Alabama company 'absolutely swamped'

[struggle4progress]

By Paul Gattis
on July 16, 2015 at 3:58 PM, updated July 16, 2015 at 4:33 PM

... "We are getting absolutely swamped," Kennedy said. "It's let up a little but what we're finding is that people are still wanting the really pretty sewn, the ones that are more like a piece of art with the sewn stripes and the applique stars. Those are really labor intensive and it takes a long time. We're still being flooded with orders for those. We're getting tons of overseas orders. We're going as fast as we can" ...

... all the major flag manufacturers in the U.S. have discontinued production, she said ...

http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/index.ssf/2015/07/confederate_flag_demand_has_al.html

[Recursion]

1. See? Racial justice is also economic stimulus (nt)

[Liberal_in_LA]

3. lol. I guess so

[951-Riverside]

2. Do an IRS audit and put these hate mongers out of business n/t

[kestrel91316]

4. Let them sell all the racist ID banners they want.

It's a free country. People are free to proclaim how horrible they are to the world.

Just don't use one fucking dime of taxpayer funds to do it, or one square centimeter of public property.

[CANDO]

5. We need confederate flag burning celebrations

To commemorate our nation's victory over the treasonous, secessionist, pro-slavery confederacy. Make it a new July 4th tradition.

[LuvNewcastle]

6. Vicksburg, Miss. didn't celebrate

July 4th for many years after the end of the Civil War because that was the date that Vicksburg fell to the Yankees. The last time I was in Vicksburg, I think they displayed the Confederate government's flag instead of the battle flag. I think that is the historically accurate flag for the Battle of Vicksburg.

[CANDO]

7. Interesting...thanks for that

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[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Editing...

"that was the date that Vicksburg fell to the Yankees..."

"...that was the date the United States Army put down the treasonous paramilitary occupying the city."

Fixed it for you.

[LuvNewcastle]

11. That is actually closer to what happened.

The siege lasted for months, and people were living in caves and eating their horses or whatever else they could find. Vicksburg is very hilly, and it sits high above the river, so the Union Army had to surround the city and choke off supplies rather than attack from the river. It was more of a paramilitary instead of a military force there by the time the siege was over.

[Jim Beard]

15. Good Idea.

Remind us next year.

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Who cares? Let racist jackasses be racist jackasses

Just not on our public lands and grounds.

[Jetboy]

10. Remember when they announced that there would be no more Twinkies?

Or when they said they wouldn't be selling old style light bulbs? At least part of this deal is the same thing.

[Hassin Bin Sober]

12. Yep. That and pig-fuck ignorant obstinacy.

[joshcryer]

16. Oh incandescents are done for.

They've tried a few times to repeal the new energy standards but incandescents are on a one way trip to extinction (yeah there will be a few areas where they are useful but generally for room lighting nope, they're done for). The 2020 light bulb standards should render them moot (hard to believe that's only 5 years from now).

Nobody is banning confederate flags that I see. Just companies stopping selling or making them for their own bottom line (odds are they weren't profitable anyway).

[ibegurpard]

13. Not shocked

Just glad they won't get a little racist hard-on seeing it flying over any state capitals any longer.

[Jim Beard]

14. I shut up my Texas bubbas

by saying that the Nazi flag also represented a "Way of Life". The Mexicans won the battle of the Alamo, why not a Mexican flag on it? They then say that texas won the state back and put the flag back on the alamo. They are celebrating a loss just like the SOUTH.