Commissioners want Confederate flag surrendered at Ingham County Fair
FRIDAY, Aug. 9 — The Stars and Bars may have made their last stand at the Ingham County Fair.
County Commissioners Thomas Morgan and Derrell Slaughter are seeking a county ordinance that would bar the sale of Confederate memorabilia along with other symbols that stoke ethnic hatred, such as swastikas and white power symbols.
“I was at the fair and saw the table with the various Confederate flag trash,” Morgan said. “We are seeing the rise of white nationalism across the country led by our president. We can’t give any quarter to these people.”
The fair closed Sunday, which is when Morgan noticed the flags and promised action against the flag on Facebook, a post that generated dozens of comments.
Morgan said it’s not a free-speech issue. He supports the right of anyone to wear a Confederate flag shirt “and look like an idiot.” But fair vendors pay the county to sell their wares at the county event, and therefore the county has indirectly profited from the sale of “hate symbols.”
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Confederate paraphernalia on display at the 2019 Ingham County Fair that county Commissioners Derrell Slaughter and Thomas Morgan want to ban as offensive.
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