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Fairgrounds at center of Confederate flag debate (TN)
Posted: Sep 01, 2015 3:59 PM EDT Updated: Sep 01, 2015 4:04 PM EDT
Reported by Kevin Trager
... The Nashville Fair Board discussed the issue at a meeting Tuesday morning after receiving some complaints from the public.
“We don’t want people coming here to be vendors to spread some message of hate,” said Kenny Byrd, a member of the Fair Board ...
Dozier told the board that so far, he has received two written complaints about Confederate flags ...
Byrd was the only board member to comment at length on the subject. He challenged the rest of the bard to look at the fairgrounds’ diversity as a whole ...
http://www.wsmv.com/story/29935425/fairgrounds-at-center-of-confederate-flag-debate
