Disney's Epcot pulls down Confederate Flag from American theater

Source: WPXI/WDBO

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ORLANDO, Fla. — A day after Disney's Hollywood Studios removed a Bill Cosby statue, Disney's Epcot has removed a Confederate flag that was hanging at the theme park's American Adventure theater.

The flag removed from Epcot is not the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia most commonly associated with the Confederacy, thanks to its adoption in early 20th century by the Ku Klux Klan and later revival in the 1950s and 60s by southerners in opposition to the civil rights movement. The flag that had hung in the American Adventure was the last official flag of the Confederate States of America, a white field with a red stripe on one end and small representation of the familiar battle flag in the opposite corner.

The move from Epcot comes on the same day that the South Carolina legislature voted to remove the Confederate flag from their Statehouse grounds following the murderous massacre that left 9 people dead at a black church in Charleston, SC, three weeks ago. The man who stands accused of that murder spree posed with pictures of the Confederate flag as a symbol of his belief of white superiority to blacks.

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It's the 'The third national flag of the Confederate States of America' according to Wikipedia. I've been to the attraction several times. Always was surprised it was hanging there.

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But keep in mind that on the way south, in the last 50 miles to Disney World, a Gigantic Confederate flag still flies. Along with many anti-abortion billboards and at one time, some fairly racist anti-Obama billboards. Thousands of cars filled with families pass this garbage every day.

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