Posted on 07/09/2015 3:41:17 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
ORLANDO, Fla. — A day after Disney's Hollywood Studios removed a Bill Cosby statue, Disney's Epcot has removed a Confederate flag that was hanging at the theme park's American Adventure theater.
Robert Niles from Theme Park Insider writes:
The flag removed from Epcot is not the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia most commonly associated with the Confederacy, thanks to its adoption in early 20th century by the Ku Klux Klan and later revival in the 1950s and 60s by southerners in opposition to the civil rights movement. The flag that had hung in the American Adventure was the last official flag of the Confederate States of America, a white field with a red stripe on one end and small representation of the familiar battle flag in the opposite corner.
The move from Epcot comes on the same day that the South Carolina legislature voted to remove the Confederate flag from their Statehouse grounds following the murderous massacre that left 9 people dead at a black church in Charleston, SC, three weeks ago. The man who stands accused of that murder spree posed with pictures of the Confederate flag as a symbol of his belief of white superiority to blacks.
Disney removed the Bill Cosby statue from an exhibition of Hollywood celebrities this week following the revelation of sworn 2005 testimony from the once-revered comic that he'd got drugs and used them to have sex with women, CNN reported.
The bronze bust was part of Disney's Academy of Television Arts and Sciences Hall of Fame Plaza in the center of the theme park and includes such TV stars as Lucille Ball and Oprah Winfrey.
The American Adventure show in Epcot has won praise from many visitors for its sensitive handling of the American Civil War, using the original song "Two Brothers" to illustrate a metaphorical split in an American family caused by the war.
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