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struggle4progress

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Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:21 PM Aug 2015

Confederate flags forced down at Elizabethtown Fair (PA)

By Eric Veronikis
on August 28, 2015 at 8:29 PM
updated August 28, 2015 at 9:11 PM

... two of the vendors sold a product that seriously offended Elizabethtown resident Michael Escobar ...

"It's a part of American history that represents hate, racism and slavery," Escobar said. "There is no place for it here" ...

In the interest of not creating problems, the fair, which ends Saturday, asked the vendors to take the flags down ...

"I then asked him his name. He told me, but I don't remember it," Escobar continued. "He then asked my name and I said, 'Mike Escobar.' He said, 'oh, well that sounds Hispanic to me.' I said, 'you are calling my citizenship into question?' Then he said 'Why don't you go back to Mexico?' That's when my head exploded and I walked out" ...


http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2015/08/confederate_flags_taken_down_a.html

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Confederate flags forced down at Elizabethtown Fair (PA) (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2015 OP
The vendor said it was about heritage, not hate Adenoid_Hynkel Aug 2015 #1
 

Adenoid_Hynkel

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1. The vendor said it was about heritage, not hate
Fri Aug 28, 2015, 09:46 PM
Aug 2015

Yeah, that Pennsylvania southern heritage



He also missed the part where the treasonous Confederacy, led by the traitor Robert E. Lee, invaded Pennsylvania, leading the deaths of thousands of soldiers in the U.S. military, until they were turned back at Gettysburg.

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