Confederate battle flag flown by vendor at fair offends black family (OK)
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 3:45 am
... “I will never go to the fair as long I have to cross that line. My mom is 80 years old. She’s very upset. I mean, it’s sticking right out there in the front when you walk in. Ain’t no blacks going to go to the fair (with the flag there).”
Todd Ray, president of the Fair Board, said the flags were not flown by anyone in county government, but by vendors who were selling flags of all types.
“They were just flying them to show that they had them,” Ray said. “They had other flags there, too. They just stuck that one up there with the rest of them. They weren’t trying to do anything wrong, They were just trying to sell their merchandise” ...
“There’s no law, but out of the kindness of their hearts, they took them down,” Ray said.
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