Confederate flag group seeks permit for parade on MLK Day in Lexington
It has come to this in Lexington: A group that venerates the Confederate flag is seeking a city permit to hold a parade on Martin Luther King Jr. Day.
The Virginia Flaggers don’t really want to march through the streets of downtown on Jan. 16, though.
Instead, they have offered to trade dates with an anti-racism group that obtained its own parade permit for the previous Saturday, the day that traditionally has been reserved by a local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans for its celebration of Lee-Jackson Day.
In their “deliberate effort to disrupt” the Confederate parade, organizers of the Community Anti-Racism Education Initiative said they wanted an alternative that would honor King, said Grayson Jennings, a member of the Virginia Flaggers.
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