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struggle4progress

(118,338 posts)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 10:20 AM Aug 2017

Confederate flag in downtown Kennesaw GA reportedly stolen

COBB COUNTY, Ga. ... The Confederate flag usually flies high in the middle of downtown Kennesaw in a small city park. But Wednesday someone brought it down ...

More than 2,000 people have signed a petition on Change.org to have the flag taken down permanently.

"I don’t believe that the flag should be flown on city property," said Reid Jones who started the petition. "I believe that the flag should be removed because it’s used as a symbol for white supremacy, racism and sectionalism" ...

http://www.wsbtv.com/news/local/cobb-county/confederate-flag-in-downtown-kennesaw-reportedly-stolen/593900053

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Confederate flag in downtown Kennesaw GA reportedly stolen (Original Post) struggle4progress Aug 2017 OP
Good. dalton99a Aug 2017 #1
Good bdamomma Aug 2017 #2
very cool Lithos Aug 2017 #3
Just so happens I was hiking Kennesaw Mountain yesterday. :) Hoyt Aug 2017 #4

bdamomma

(63,922 posts)
2. Good
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 10:24 AM
Aug 2017

that part of our history should be buried, Americans going after Americans isn't that sick and they want to resurrect it again in 2017???? because they feel so threatened by diversity????

 

Hoyt

(54,770 posts)
4. Just so happens I was hiking Kennesaw Mountain yesterday. :)
Thu Aug 17, 2017, 10:27 AM
Aug 2017

As I was heading north afterwards, some pissant on a Harley passed with a confederate flag on his jacket. With all that is going on, what kind of vile, ignorant racist does it take to ride down the road with the American Swastika on their back?

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