Soon you will have to go the black market to buy Confederate Flag merchandise.
Via WLKY
The Kentucky State Fair board moves to ban confederate flag merchandise at the State Fair and other events, like the flea market.
The local NAACP made the request in the wake of the Charleston church shooting.
Everyone, but one, voted to pass the motion without discussion.
They said the State Fair is all about promoting tourism and this vote is just one way to stand by their mission.
The sale of confederate flag merchandise is now banned at all state fairground events.
“We are much more than the State Fair, and you don’t want to pick and choose events. It’s either a policy you adopt or you don’t,” State Fair Board Chairman Mark Lynn said.[…]
WLKY spoke to a vendor who sells confederate flags at the flea market and he said this ban frustrates him.
“No, I’m not even going to come up, if they’re going to vote on something that’s not a law. Tell you what you can or cannot sell, that’s not a law. I mean this is America,” Devito said.
Devito travels from state to state selling stars and bars merchandise.
He said he will no longer travel to the Kentucky Flea Market, an event he said was good for business.
“What’s that say to the people that have ancestors who died in that war? We just going to sweep it under the rug and be done with it? That’s what I’m so mad about,” Devito said.