The owner of Alabama Flag & Banner, likely the last remaining U.S. retailer to sell the Confederate flag, said that sales surged after the violent protests two weeks ago in Charlottesville. “Everybody’s got a different reason [for buying Confederate flags],” store owner Belinda Kennedy told AL.com. SIX FLAGS OVER TEXAS REMOVES CONFEDERATE FLAG, REVERSING EARLIER DECISIONWalmart and Amazon stopped selling Confederate flags shortly thereafter, as well. “When we start trying to rewrite our history, we are forgetting our history,” she told AL.com. “Does anybody really think by taking down monuments and renaming mountains and taking down Confederate flags, that we are really going to see racism end?

Source: Fox News August 27, 2017 15:56 UTC