Bucyrus To Host Confederate Flag Parade This Weekend (OH)

[struggle4progress]

By JIM LETIZIA • 15 HOURS AGO

Bucyrus City officials have granted a permit for a confederate flag parade downtown on Saturday. Organizers call it a display of military pride and a display of the right to fly the flag. Many residents have protested with the city, saying the flag is a symbol of America's racist past that has no place in modern society ...

http://wcbe.org/post/bucyrus-host-confederate-flag-parade-weekend#stream/0

[Adenoid_Hynkel]

1. Don't get the wrong idea...

It's not about hate. These locals just want to celebrate their southern heritage:

(Dot marks the spot)

[Ex Lurker]

2. There was a big outmigration from Applachia to the midwest in the first half of the 20th century

chasing factory jobs. So those people may in fact be descended from southerners.

[struggle4progress]

6. Bucyrus' Ohio Underground Railroad Marker

Ohio Underground Railroad Marker is located along South Sandusky Avenue in front of Bucyrus City Hall. Bucyrus was a major location for the Underground Railroad and many traveled this route through Ohio during that time.

https://roadtrippers.com/us/bucyrus-oh/attractions/bucyrus-ohio-underground-railroad-marker?lat=40.80972&lng=-96.67528&z=5

[Downwinder]

3. Get this Confederate thing over with

then we can have an Axis parade.

[left-of-center2012]

4. Organizers call it a display of military pride

Uh, their side lost

[Downwinder]

5. They should surrender their flags

at the first veterans site they come to.

[struggle4progress]

7. Differing historical views at Confederate flag parade

Danielle Hess
5:47 p.m. EDT August 29, 2015

... Vega said he lived in the heart of the old confederacy near the Carolinas for almost 10 years and never saw Confederate battle flags as much there as he does in this part of Ohio.

He said there’s no reason to publicly fly a Confederate flag in a union state.

“The Confederacy was a group of traitors, so I was very sad to see a U.S. military veteran come up to me and tell me I didn’t know history, and that it’s just another historical flag,” Vega said. “He fought for the union, he fought for the USA. The Confederate States of America fought against (the union) to dissolve it and to enslave part of it, so there’s an alternative history that really ticks me off” ...

Bucyrus Mayor Jeff Reser said the city allowed the parade because everyone has a right to freedom of speech ...

http://www.mansfieldnewsjournal.com/story/news/local/2015/08/29/differing-historical-views-confederate-flag-parade/71394386/