Posted on 08/27/2017 10:37:30 AM PDT by Twotone
Despite the controversy over monuments and the deadly Alt-Left vs Alt-Right rallies in Charlottesville, Virginia, there has been another surge in the sale of Confederate flags, CBS News reported.
Belinda Kennedy, owner of the Alabama Flag & Banner shop in Huntsville, Alabama, said sales have been brisk. She said sales spiked even more “dramatically within in the last 24 hours,” since an interview about the shop was published at AL.com.
“What's really pushing sales [now] is removal of the monuments,” said Kennedy, who opened her shop in 1985. “The general feeling I get from customers that call and email is that they are just pushing back at a small group of people who are trying to revise a huge slice of American history. I think as long as that's in the news,” demand will continue.
Most U.S. flag makers stopped producing Confederate flags two years ago, CBS News reported, when sales surged after Dylann Roof went on a shooting rampage at a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Roof, convicted of killing nine people, was sentenced to death in January.
Annin Flagmakers stopped making the Confederate Battle Flag version after the shootings, Mary E. Repke, senior vice president of sales and marketing, told CBS News in an e-mail. They were a tiny portion of sales and went primarily to Civil War reenactor organizations, she added.
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At the moment, as graves are being desecrated, they are at least temporarily ‘winning’.
It is my fervent hope that this too eventually backfires on them, even more yuuuuugely than it did last year.
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I a’n’t (proper contraction of ‘am not’; ask Jane Austen) from the South, but I bought mine years ago!
I saw where we were headed a mighty long time ago.
The Stars and Stripes flew over more slave states for a longer period of time than did the Confederate Battle Flag.
American, Japanese, and German soldiers, those still living, often meet and shake each other's hands. Some have become great friends. They were warriors fighting for their countries BECAUSE IT WAS THEIR DUTY TO DO SO.
But hell, that's silly, isn't it.
We should re-fight the old wars and hate each other forever. Because "Nazis," "White Privilege,"(Yellow Privilege?}and other idiotic "reasoning."
Dear God the United States has become a land of ignorant, jelly-spined dumb-asses. Either this country pulls its head out of its fat ass or it deserves what's coming to it.
How’s everything?
Our problems in Kearny will be the Dutch names (since they settled the area before the English): Schuyler School (and Avenue), Stuyvesant Avenue...
That is one darned fine post. I feel like standing and cheering after reading it. Well done.
Tell us we can’t do something and we will move mountains to do it, especially if it is right.
You forgot the Norwegian jokes....................... Naaah, they’re in the weeds with the Swedes, being chased on both sides by the Danes and Finns.
There were two carpenters one Swedish the other Norwegian building a house. One of them opened a pack of nails, and asked the other: “Why are half of the nails lying in the wrong direction?”
The other replied: “You moron! They are supposed to be used on the other side of the house!”
Thanks for getting back to me.
Have a great day.
“sales surged after Dylan Roof went on a shooting rampage”
Uh, that wasn’t the reason.
It was a counter-backlash, again. Not to venerate Roof (a genuine racist killer), but to stand up for the flag he happened to have used himself.
Actually, the Bonnie Blue. And then REALLY no one has a clue.
Thank you. Ping, for all our flag needs.
“If democrats/antifa types are against something that should be your clue as to what to be for.”
EXACTLY.
And I’ve been saying that for decades to Yankee defenders, as it has been plain for decades that the left is ALL pro-Lincoln and rah-rah USA when it comes to the “Civil War”. (While ANTI-USA everywhere else, just turning 1 year from the war they will berate the US position.)
By their fruits shall ye know them.
Interesting.
If this keeps up they’ll come after Old Gory.
Sorry you had a bad summer. I dunno... everyone gets tired of marching around. Crack a few of their skulls and throw a boatload of them in jail and they’ll go back to moms basement and get stoned all day.
Right now they are winning. Police have pulled out completely.
https://mobile.twitter.com/shane_bauer/status/901910682030882816
Thank you!
Time to start shooting a few of them. That’ll give them something to think about.
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