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TexasTowelie

(116,554 posts)
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 05:46 AM Apr 2022

Booth selling Confederate and Trump flags at MS Coast elementary school sparks uproar

BILOXI -- A booth displaying and selling Confederate flags and Donald Trump flags at a Woolmarket Elementary School event caused controversy and uproar among some within the community.

On April 2, the school’s PTO hosted a fair with various vendors, one of whom is known as the “Flag Lady.” She had various flags for sale at her booth, including flags that support Donald Trump, the old Mississippi state flag and rebel flags.

A picture of the booth was posted by Alexis Weathersby, a local mother of two. The post, which she posted to Facebook on April 7, has garnered over 300 comments and 200 shares. “

(Confederate flags) don’t belong in our schools,” Weathersby, who has a child at the school, told the Sun Herald. “It is a symbol of hatred and pain and slavery and trauma … if this was a Nazi flag, it would be a no brainier.”

Read more at: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/education/article260322005.html
(Gulfport Sun Herald)

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Booth selling Confederate and Trump flags at MS Coast elementary school sparks uproar (Original Post) TexasTowelie Apr 2022 OP
If? It is a Nazi flag! Walleye Apr 2022 #1
Yes it's a total brainer!!!! LakeArenal Apr 2022 #13
Is there a content-neutral rule on what may be displayed or sold at the fair? Effete Snob Apr 2022 #2
Mississippi goddam Magoo48 Apr 2022 #3
WOW! Never saw that. Thanks! 70sEraVet Apr 2022 #8
Grooming Maine Abu El Banat Apr 2022 #4
Exactly. niyad Apr 2022 #9
You rarely Traildogbob Apr 2022 #5
Hey, let's ban To Kill a Mockingbird, but step right up to buy this Southern treasure of a flag!!! Gamecock Lefty Apr 2022 #6
This will only expand DownriverDem Apr 2022 #7
They will pass legislation providing serious penalty for those who object to these displays, jaxexpat Apr 2022 #11
Do you think she sold Farmer-Rick Apr 2022 #10
The Trump flags and red MAGA hats in front of the Smithsonian arlyellowdog Apr 2022 #12
Different booth, same stuff. Marcuse Apr 2022 #14
Disgusting. TexasTowelie Apr 2022 #15
 

Effete Snob

(8,387 posts)
2. Is there a content-neutral rule on what may be displayed or sold at the fair?
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 05:57 AM
Apr 2022

The elementary school is a state institution.

Can it regulate what is sold at the market on the basis of the speech content thereof?

Traildogbob

(9,908 posts)
5. You rarely
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 07:51 AM
Apr 2022

Find venders without the pair, Trump and that god damned flag. Many times the swastika is there ass well. They represent each other to a “T”. Days all you need to know where they stand on racism. So, you go Uncle Hershel Walker.

jaxexpat

(7,693 posts)
11. They will pass legislation providing serious penalty for those who object to these displays,
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 08:42 AM
Apr 2022

given the chance. Because by then, you see, those who may have just come to understand the error of this path will have already forfeited their, and our, voices. That's what "too late" is all about. This is what they mean when they say, "fuck your feelings". They WILL happily encamp any and all who aren't aligned with their view of propriety, decorum, ethnicity and religiosity. They'll do that simply because there will have never been an actual check on their extremism from any quarter which would wield and unleash the power behind its constitutional and traditional authority. Still, they'll continue proselytizing the gross charade, whining about how they'd had to fight desperately against a super-secret evil power bent on destroying our nation.

arlyellowdog

(1,429 posts)
12. The Trump flags and red MAGA hats in front of the Smithsonian
Wed Apr 13, 2022, 08:42 AM
Apr 2022

That was during TFG’s reign. That, and having to see the huge T…. sign on the hotel when you exit the metro. So gross.

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