Confederate flag supporters rally Saturday in Richmond

[struggle4progress]

By MARK BOWES Richmond Times-Dispatch

Several hundred people rallied for Confederate and Southern heritage in Henrico County and downtown Richmond on Saturday in events that included fiery rhetoric, scores of Confederate flags and scant opposition ...

There was no organized opposition in the parking lot of Mission BBQ, where participants gathered, although one African-American man who arrived with his family to have lunch could be heard saying “traitors” and displaying his middle finger to passers-by ...

About an hour later, between 125 and 150 people gathered for a Confederate history and heritage rally at the Capitol Square Bell Tower. The rally was sponsored by the Virginia Flaggers and the Army of Northern Virginia Mechanized Cavalry ...

The event’s only organized protest came from Edward Sebesta, a Dallas resident who traveled here from Pennsylvania, where he’s currently working, who held a sign that read “The Heritage is Hate” ...

http://www.dailyprogress.com/starexponent/confederate-flag-supporters-rally-saturday-in-richmond/article_59bdd096-2e4e-11e5-9024-b737fee5296f.html

[Agschmid]

1. Kick...

Another reason #BLM might be angry...

Just saying.

[peacebird]

2. The fact that the KKK held a rally for that flag in SC, replete with Nazi salutes, destroyed the

"southern Heritage" arguement. They are white supremacist racists who are scared that they ar not in the majority anymore and who want the clock turned back on desegregation.