No big surprise here, but the NAACP does not like that great big Confederate flag now standing proud by I-4 and I-75 in Tampa. They want it taken down. Said NAACP Hillsborough Co. president Curtis Stokes, "It is huge and obnoxious."
It was put up by the local Sons of Confederate Veterans camp and raised June 3rd to mark the 200th anniversary of President Jefferson Davis' birthday.
The Hillsborough County Commissioners are asking that the SCV camp voluntarily remove it and the local black community is mobilizing against it. The debate is over Southern heritage, racism, and private property rights.
Around 200,000 people a day on the interstates have a clear view of the 30 by 50 foot flag on the 139 foot pole.
Right now, it stands that it will only come down if the SCV camp does it of their own accord.
Keep it Flying. --Old B-Runner
The Battle of Fort Fisher, N.C.
