The Confederate flag is back in the news.
Virginia’s NAACP Executive Director King Salim Khalfani told the Richmond Times that flying the huge flag along interstate 95 outside the state capital would make the city look like “a backwater trailer park hick town”.
The group, Virginia Flaggers plans to fly the 10-by-15 foot flag atop a 50 foot pole beginning September 28th and should be visible from the northbound lanes of the interstate.
The organizers add they have not decided exactly where it will be located.
Virginia Flaggers founder Susan Hathaway said that her group did not want to offend anyone but rather to honor those Confederate soldiers who died to “defend Virginia from invasion”.
It is not, she added, intended to aggravate anyone.
Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy and the Confederate flag was used as a symbol by the resistance to desegregation during the civil rights era.
