Fans at speedway ignore requests not to fly Confederate flags (TX)

[struggle4progress]

BY DREW DAVISON
NOVEMBER 8, 2015

... “Well, NASCAR is trying to be politically correct which doesn’t fit NASCAR’s style really,” Ivey said. “I don’t know why they did that. But we talked about it and there is a group of guys that come out here and we all agreed that it’s our right to fly it. So we’re going to fly it just because they tell us we can’t” ...

... Tatum, president of the Fort Worth Southern Leadership Conference ... said ... “Anything that continues the antebellum of the Confederacy is not something that is inclusive of the culture” ...

“The whole thing over the Confederate flag is nothing but B.S.,” Ragsdell said. “We’ve never flown a Confederate flag before, but it’s just the principle of the matter.”

His friend Greg Roden added: “Can I give my answer? Screw the president and screw the liberals. That’s my answer” ...

http://www.star-telegram.com/news/local/article43669482.html

[Initech]

1. This liberal has a message for Mr. Roden and his friends:

You support the confederate flag, you support treason against the United States.

[doc03]

2. Since all the controversy about the Confederate flag I have seen probably

10 times as many displayed. I am in Ohio and I see them everyday on vehicles and in people's yards. Some people don't
like to be told what they can or can't do or think, isn't that what freedom is all about?

[struggle4progress]

3. "When I learned some people don't like the confederate flag, I decided I had to wave it!"

[Warren DeMontague]

4. best way to get people to do something is to tell them not to.

I mean, duh.