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struggle4progress

(118,295 posts) Thu Mar 10, 2016, 07:06 PM Mar 2016

Controversy continues over confederate flags being sold at Lorain County Fair (OH)

POSTED 11:23 PM, MARCH 9, 2016
BY SUZANNE STRATFORD

... last year .. a democratic commissioner asked the Fair Board to disallow confederate flag memorabilia at the fair and was denied.

... this past February the issue was revisited at a fair board meeting ...

Jeanine says she and many others see the flag as a symbol of this nations brutal history with slavery, segregation and some extremely racist portrayals of African Americans ...

But once again they fair board refused to ban the flag ...

http://fox8.com/2016/03/09/controversy-continues-over-confederate-flags-being-sold-at-lorain-county-fair/

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Fair Board votes to remove commissioners’ photos from annual guide struggle4progress Mar 2016 #1

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1. Fair Board votes to remove commissioners’ photos from annual guide

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Thu Mar 10, 2016, 07:12 PM

Mar 2016

Filed on March 10, 2016 by Brad Dicken

WELLINGTON — ... The vote, which took place at a Fair Board meeting Tuesday, comes as the leaders of the fair are fending off demands that they bar the sale of the Confederate flag at the county fairgrounds, something that the commissioners are pushing ...

Commissioners Ted Kalo and Matt Lundy said Wednesday they ... still plan to attend the fair.

But they also said they both plan to vote to cancel a booth the Lorain County Solid Waste Management District traditionally rents at the fairgrounds because of the controversy surrounding the Confederate flag.

“I’m not happy with the way the Fair Board is marketing the Confederate flag,” said Lundy, who touched off the controversy about the flag at the 2015 fair when he asked Meyers to halt the sale of the flag, which he and other critics have called a symbol of divisiveness and hate ...

http://chronicle.northcoastnow.com/2016/03/10/fair-board-votes-to-remove-commissioners-photos-from-annual-guide/

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