Even Walmart is ditching the pro-slavery flags and related dreck.
Walmart, the country’s largest retailer, will remove all Confederate flag merchandise from its stores, the company told CNN Monday.
The announcement is the latest indication that the flag, a symbol of the slave-holding South, has become toxic in the aftermath of a shooting last week at a historic African-American church in Charleston, South Carolina. Gov. Nikki Haley announced in a Monday afternoon news conference that she supports removing the Confederate flag from the state capitol grounds.
Walmart.com currently carries the Confederate flag as well as attire featuring the flag’s design, such as T-shirts and belt buckles.
Apparently they did this because CNN prodded them.
Walmart’s statement came in response to a CNN inquiry Monday. In addition to Walmart, CNN asked Amazon and eBay whether they would remove Confederate flag merchandise from their sites. Neither company responded to repeated requests for comment.
Cha-ching, I guess. Impressive.
Amazon.com lists pages of Confederate flag-related merchandise, ranging from the flag itself to folding knives, T-shirts, blankets and even shower curtains.
eBay also carries the Confederate flag and accessories such as handbags and jewelry. The online auction site’s “offensive material policy” bans the sale of items that “promote hatred or racial supremacy including historic and current items.”
Interesting. It’s not as if people who aren’t white supremacist would want to wear or carry that thing.
Amazon has had issues with this before.
Woooow. Okay, South Carolina, listen up. If Walmart is out ahead of you on an ethical issue, you are not doing well. I would take a good look at your life choices.
They’ll be keeping the guns, however. And Duck Dynasty merch.
It has never ceased to amaze me how some people can shout from the rooftops what amazing patriotic Americans they are, while simultaneously paying homage to the flag of American traitors.