Shoppers want mall retailer to remove Confederate flag merchandise (MI)

[struggle4progress]

GRANDVILLE, MI -- ... Jim Fryer and his wife, Sonja Schultz-Fryer, longtime Grand Rapids Public Schools teachers, are raising a red flag about the store ...

Fryer says he is sensitive to what he sees as racist messages as the husband of an African American woman and the father of a biracial son and a Chinese daughter. He and his wife teach ...

"I'm not really familiar with the '60s era. The 1800s, that is more where I am," said Jaco, when asked if he knew why the flag is seen as a racist symbol ...

"The Civil War was started over state rights," said Jaco. "Personally, this country needs another civil war. The government is too big. The government can make any law they want and we, the little people, don't have any control over it. They have too much power" ...

http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2015/12/shoppers_want_mall_retailer_to.html

[longship]

1. Jaco? Short for Jackoff? nt

[spartan61]

2. Why in hell

would anyone in Michigan even want to buy a confederate flag? Why even carry such a racist symbol in the store?

[BuelahWitch]

3. I was wondering the same thing...

[Hoyt]

4. Michigan ain't immune from hatred. Meet the Michigan Militia as an example.

[ProudToBeBlueInRhody]

5. There are parts of Michigan that might as well be Mississippi

Outside of the college towns and the cities, there are plenty of Ted Nugent type jack offs littering the land

[MrScorpio]

6. Western Michigan is right wing Republican hell…

The spawn from which Lansing has been invaded, hence our state's sorry state of affairs.

So, I can see this happening in Grand Rapids.