Booth selling Confederate and Trump flags at MS Coast elementary school sparks uproar [View all]
BILOXI -- A booth displaying and selling Confederate flags and Donald Trump flags at a Woolmarket Elementary School event caused controversy and uproar among some within the community.
On April 2, the school’s PTO hosted a fair with various vendors, one of whom is known as the “Flag Lady.” She had various flags for sale at her booth, including flags that support Donald Trump, the old Mississippi state flag and rebel flags.
A picture of the booth was posted by Alexis Weathersby, a local mother of two. The post, which she posted to Facebook on April 7, has garnered over 300 comments and 200 shares. “
(Confederate flags) don’t belong in our schools,” Weathersby, who has a child at the school, told the Sun Herald. “It is a symbol of hatred and pain and slavery and trauma … if this was a Nazi flag, it would be a no brainier.”
Read more at: https://www.sunherald.com/news/local/education/article260322005.html
(Gulfport Sun Herald)
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