INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Vendors at the Indiana State Fair have been asked to stop selling goods with Confederate symbols.
The Indianapolis Star says the fair received complaints about Confederate flag items sold by a leather vendor. Spokeswoman Sharon Smith says the request was made “in light of current events.” In Charlottesville, Virginia, white nationalists violently clashed with opponents.
Smith says the majority of vendors at the fair don’t have Confederate goods. A similar request was made in 2015 after nine people were killed at a black church in South Carolina.
Leon’s Breakaway Outfitters, a state fair vendor for 50 years, says it stop selling items with the Confederate flag years ago. Jim Foy, a cashier, says “times have changed” and the leather business doesn’t want to offend anybody.
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When is someone going to start the conversation about banning all “black culture” that we are subjected to? I find it ALL to be offensive and I am certain I am not alone. Everyday I have to be reminded that black people are different than white people by the way they dress, the way they talk and the very offensive music they listen too. I hear the “N” word that I am not allowed to say constantly being said by the very people it is supposed to be offending. The term “African American” is a racist and offensive label to me so lets remove any monuments and statues that are related. Martin Luther King Jr. was a lying cheating womanizer but we have roads named after him. I find that to be offensive! If black people want all history of America removed then why is it acceptable for them to have their own colleges, clubs, organizations in retaliation for the “oppressive years”? Seems like that is having your cake and eating it too. Over and over and over…Does any vendor have any item that states “Black Lives Matter”? There is nothing more offensive or racist than that but I am sure it would be fine to sell items with that on them…