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‘Burn a rebel flag, get a free chocolate’: NC shop owner denounces Confederate symbols
CBS 17 (Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc.) ^
| August 6, 2019
| By Kelly Kennedy
Posted on 08/12/2019 5:03:02 PM PDT by ConservativeStatement
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (WNCN) - An Orange County chocolate shop owner is an unlikely voice in whats turning out to be a high stakes game of free speech and he is showing no signs of backing down.
Matthew Shepherd says almost every Saturday a group gathers outside his chocolate shop in downtown Hillsborough waving Confederate flags.
They were calling me names, theyre calling everybody names, Shepherd said. Theyre instigating, theyre poking, theyre blocking the sidewalk.
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TOPICS: Culture/Society; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: belongsinchat; chat; chocolate; confederateflag; dixie; localnews; texasgatortroll; whocares
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To: ConservativeStatement
I suppose Billy Idol’s “Rebel Yell” is out, too? (heh)
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:07:34 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: ConservativeStatement
The mayor didnt seem to have even a touch of a southern accent.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:10:08 PM PDT
by
McGavin999
(injustice Roberts repeatedly making a mockery of the rule of law)
To: ConservativeStatement
what would happen if I burn a rainbow flag?
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:11:52 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
To: dynachrome
Lead story on the news as a hate crime.
To: dynachrome
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:12:57 PM PDT
by
BipolarBob
(Heaven has gates, walls and immigration policy but Hell has an open border policy. Food for thought.)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:13:11 PM PDT
by
dynachrome
(Build the wall, deport them all. And send her back!)
To: VietVet876
I thought it was Wyoming.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:13:17 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: VietVet876
You must be thinking of Matthew Shepherd the pedophile who was apparently killed (iirc in Wyoming) by his lover over a drug deal. The case is detailed in “The Book of Matt.”
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:14:52 PM PDT
by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
To: ConservativeStatement
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:14:52 PM PDT
by
EEGator
To: ConservativeStatement
IF I burn a mexican flag what do I get?
How about an ISIS flag?
(Note: No flags were burn in the writing of this post.)
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:14:55 PM PDT
by
Harmless Teddy Bear
(Human beings don't behave rationally. We rationalize our behavior.)
To: ConservativeStatement
Reminds me of Mao’s China.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:15:53 PM PDT
by
Jane Austen
(Neo-cons are liberal Democrats who love illegal aliens and war.)
To: ConservativeStatement
They’ve already banned selling rebel flags at most places since that 1 madman shot up a black church, so there are probably not too many to burn.
To: ConservativeStatement
Hillsborough is right outside Chapel Hill... it is about as liberal as Asheville is now. I believe in Hillsborough is illegal to throw away your armpit and leg hair if your a woman, and you shave it. I believe you are required Pie town ordinance to compost it.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:21:19 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
To: ConservativeStatement
The people who do this are the biggest freakin hypocrites because they're all fanatical democrap supporters. The Confederate flag is a symbol of the south today, southern pride that's all. The Confederate states had MANY flags not just that. The democrap party on the other hand though is a symbol of slavery, the KKK, Jim Crow laws and LYING. Any of these dirtbags protesting that? Any of them protesting why this party that has caused so much misery, torture and death throughout the history of this country is STILL to his day in 2019 allowed to even exist? This party that as late as 2010 STILL had a KKK recruiter serving in the Senate? A guy Hillary called her mentor? A guy they built a statue to in the nations capital and force a black man to clean? Any protests over that? NO! Because that's too close to the Democrap party and these hypocritical mofos won't go there.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:21:23 PM PDT
by
GrandJediMasterYoda
(As long as Hillary walks free, equal justice under the law will never exist in the USA)
To: dynachrome
[what would happen if I burn a rainbow flag
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:21:54 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: CincyRichieRich
[Pie town]
As long as they have banana cream with shaved chocolate and pecan, I'm in! :)
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:24:17 PM PDT
by
SaveFerris
(Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
To: SaveFerris
Pie town]
...
I hate it when voice texting on a very small phone doesn’t get it right and even when I review it it looks right. I meant by law of course. It ruined my joke. What a bummer. I used to live in that General vicinity it is truly man-hating area. Nothing but Birkenstock sandals recycling Nazis and reusable grocery bag country.
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posted on
08/12/2019 5:27:31 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(Vote for President Trump in 2020 or end up equally miserable, no rights, and eating zoo animals)
To: ConservativeStatement
I hope no one gets the idea to take a 40-ft by 60-ft piece of fabric that resembles a Confederate flag, soak it in gasoline, and set it alight inside his store just to get the free chocolate.
This guy promoting flag burning needs to start, instead, promoting flag safety.
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