Obama greeted with Confederate flag protest in OK

[zoegirltx]

www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/theoval/2015/07/16/obama-oklahoma-city-confederate-flags/30228809/


A few protesters waving large Confederate battle flags greeted President Obama as he arrived at his hotel in Oklahoma City on Wednesday.



Local media reported that Confederate flag supporters also staged an event at an earlier Obama stop in Durant, Okla.



Obama has criticized the flag as a symbol of hate and applauded South Carolina's decision to remove it from the State House grounds after nine African Americans were killed at a church in Charleston.

[sushi]

Good job, America. Good job, white people (look at me being a liberal, thinking it's ok to be racist against my own peoplpe)

[jillboston]

I'm glad they're letting their freak flags fly. No way to deny the racism now

[sparrowsong]

What message do they THINK they are sending?

[tacosforlife]

#heritagenothate

#justkidding

#oklahomawasnotastateuntil1907

#ihatepeople

#especiallywhitepeople

#doesthatmakemeracist

#ihavebeendrinking

[zoegirltx]

Jul 16, 2015 19:31:09 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

#heritagenothate

#justkidding

#oklahomawasnotastateuntil1907

#ihatepeople

#especiallywhitepeople

#doesthatmakemeracist

#ihavebeendrinking

drinking tacos = awesome

[tacosforlife]

Jul 16, 2015 19:33:20 GMT -5 zoegirltx said:

Jul 16, 2015 19:31:09 GMT -5 tacosforlife said:

#heritagenothate

#justkidding

#oklahomawasnotastateuntil1907

#ihatepeople

#especiallywhitepeople

#doesthatmakemeracist

#ihavebeendrinking

drinking tacos = awesome

Last night in the hotel after 2 weeks away from home.

[ESF]

Fuck these assholes.

[zoegirltx]

it was (mostly?) texans...

www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/texas/article/Texans-traveled-to-Oklahoma-to-wave-Confederate-6389327.php

Some very committed Texans made sure to greet the U.S. president with Confederate flags during his trip to Oklahoma this week.
Barack Obama made stops in Durant, Okla. and Oklahoma City during a two-day trip to the state. Photos from the president’s trip show people waving Confederate flags outside his hotel in the state capital and a motorcade of trucks flying the flag in Durant.


Reports on the spectacle say Texans represented many of the flag wavers in Durant at least. The town sits not far from the Lone Star State’s border. Oklahoma City’s KFOR-TV talked to a couple of Texans at the protest. Trey Johnson felt compelled to drive three hours from Texas to communicate to the president that the flag is “a southern thing. That’s it.”
Another Texan man named Angel Pride in the report ranted about how the flag “has nothing to do with racism.”
Oklahoma state rep. Emily Virgin also noted on Twitter that “most of the Confederate flag-wavers I saw in Durant today had Texas plates.” Another man wrote that one of the trucks he saw in downtown Oklahoma City also had a Texas license plate.