Oklahoma Greeted Black President With Confederate Flags
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Demonstrators waved Confederate flags as President Obama visited Oklahoma City Wednesday night.
The incident comes in the midst of a renewed national push to remove the battle flag from government sites after the massacre inside a historic black church in Charleston, South Carolina, last month. Similar counter rallies embracing the slogan “Confederate Lives Matter” were scheduled in Oklahoma City ahead of the president’s visit.
Following the attack in Charleston, Obama delivered an impassioned eulogy for Rev. Clementa Pinckney, a South Carolina state senator and one of the nine people murdered, in which the president called the flag’s enduring presence in the South a “reminder of systemic oppression and racial subjugation.”
Earlier:
They say they want to show him “Southern heritage.” Sounds more like they want to give him a middle finger.
When President Obama arrives in Durant, Oklahoma, today to announce the ConnectHome program, he will be greeted by Confederate flag-worshippers because the group says they want to ‘show Southern heritage’. Knowing that the flag is concerned by many to be racist, the group still plans to display it when our country’s first black president arrives.
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