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(118,379 posts) Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:26 PM Jun 2015

Re-enactors asked not to display Confederate flag in Lewisburg parade (Pennsylvania)

By John Beauge
on June 26, 2015 at 11:46 AM
updated June 26, 2015 at 12:24 PM

The controversy over the display of the Confederate flag in the wake of the killing of nine black church members in Charleston, S.C., has reached the annual Union County Veterans Fourth of July Parade in Lewisburg. The 18th North Carolina Co. A re-enactors have been asked not to display the Confederate flag if it marches, parade chairman Kevin Bittenbender said Friday. The parade is scheduled to step off at 10 a.m. Saturday ... Bittenbender said he has not heard from the re-enactors since the parade committee asked it not to display the Confederate flag. Jeffrey Swanger, who organized the re-enactors in 2001, said Friday they will not march because they feel they have been un-invited ...

http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/06/re-enacters_asked_not_to_displ.html

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Re-enactors asked not to display Confederate flag in Lewisburg parade (Pennsylvania) (Original Post) struggle4progress Jun 2015 OP

I think this is just getting silly now. TM99 Jun 2015 #1

TM99

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1. I think this is just getting silly now.

Reply to struggle4progress (Original post)

Fri Jun 26, 2015, 10:42 PM

Jun 2015

First Apple's fuck up about removing the flags from RTS Civil War games, and now this parade, even though it is historical re-enactment.

History needs to be remembered so we do not make the same mistakes.

This is not going to end bigotry and racism.

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