Hey there Richmond, who wants to remind everyone of the worst years this city has every had? Not you? Great! Here's your chance to let a local group of history-deniers know how full of shit they are.
Here's the story from the Times-Dispatch:
An online petition opposing a group’s plan to fly a Confederate flag along Interstate 95 just south of Richmond has gotten nearly 10,000 signatures.
A spokesman for the group planning to fly the flag, the Virginia Flaggers, called the petition “inflammatory,” while the petition’s creator said it is the planned flag display that would inflame emotions.
“We should, in this day and age, be hanging the American flag — not a flag representative of brutality for all to see while passing by Richmond on I-95,” the petition on MoveOn.org reads. “This flag does not serve to better the community as a whole, nor society.”
For the record, Virginia Flaggers is probably the least creative name possible for a group - it makes sense from a message delivery stand point, but for-the-love-of-God, how many brand-center grads rolled their eyes the hardest at the uncreative name?
Here's a link to the MoveOn.org petition (which the TD did not link to, showing some good ol'fashion editorial bias in spite of new ownership I presume)
The comment section of this TD article is pretty amazing too (As you might imagine) Here's some highlights:
