Remember the swampy August of 2015, when ‘Heritage not Hate’ refrains were common, and imperiled NOT-racists were hosting Confederate Flag Pride Parades to broadcast their support for… southern heritage?

It’s 2017 now, but love for the Confederate Flag in Ohio — a Union state — is still super strong. Although not without controversy.

The Chronicle-Telegram reports that the sale of the flag will be permitted this year at the Lorain County Fair. The county’s fair board sanctioned the sale of the items, once again, in apparent defiance of the fair’s bylaws which rule that:

“Under no circumstance will items of a questionable nature be sold or permitted on fairgrounds or in the building.”

At a recent meeting of the county commissioners, via the CT, a local activist said that the Confederate Flag was more than just “questionable.”

“For people who believe it’s just a piece of cloth or a piece of history,” the woman said, “in today’s world, it’s the No. 1 recruitment tool for neo-Nazi groups.”

The County Fair in Lorain doesn’t get underway until Aug. 21 so expected heated debate in the coming weeks and months. Thousands are expected to protest by not showing up.

While you wait for that volcano to erupt, feel free to enjoy this humdinger from 2015 about Confederate Flag support in Willoughby.

This article appears in Jun 28 – Jul 4, 2017.

Sam Allard is a former senior writer at Scene.

3 replies on “Confederate Flags Will Definitely Be on Sale at the Lorain County Fair”

  1. So does our proud banner fly or do the super-ignorant get their way to muzzle free speech and individual heritage just because they are too stupid to understand its true meaning to the world, and want us all to have to live in their little protected world, free from anything THEY THINK offends us?

  2. When someone with a Confederate battle flag shot up a black church, liberals told us that we must destroy and obliterate every Confederate flag and monument in this country,

    But when a Muslim shot up a gay club and murdered 49 people because his book of hate, the Koran, taught him to murder people like that, there was no one calling for the removal of the Koran or Muslims from our country.

    Hey liberals — take your phony outrage and hypocrisy somewhere else.

  3. Do some homework, fascist wingnuts. Lurk before you spew. Notice what posts get the likes and what posts get the dislikes. SCENE’s readership is left-of-center and mostly progressive. So is this site…and there isn’t jackshit you can do about it. Not today. Not tomorrow. Never.

    You are pissing into the wind. So take your trolling back to the PeeDee boards that you slithered in from.

    Chuckles the Clown

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