Hundreds Rally for ‘Confederate Pride’ Parade Displaying Rebel Battle Flag

The Associated Press
The Associated Press

From Kieran Corcoran writing at the Daily Mail:

Confederate flags have been falling across the United States since the racist church massacre in Charleston, South Carolina, sparked a national outcry over the symbol.

But in Tampa Bay, Florida, the battle flag of the rebel South was out in force Friday night at a ‘Ride With Pride’ event attended by hundreds who wore and flew the controversial symbol.

On pick-up trucks, choppers, t-shirts and even inked onto demonstrators’ skin, the distinctive flag was repeated hundreds of times alongside combative slogans like ‘try burning this, asshole’ and ‘come and take it’.

Read the rest of the story at the Daily Mail.

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