Rebel flag OK, Homestead Veterans' Day parade organizers say

[Chris_]

Rebel flag OK, Homestead Veterans' Day parade organizers say

HOMESTEAD - Organizers will go ahead with the popular Veterans' Day parade in Homestead despite the controversy over a group marching for the first time with the Confederate battle flag last November.

They decided at a meeting Thursday that they could not ban the flag as the Miami-Dade chapter of the NAACP had demanded.

The flag is a divisive symbol that reflects Southern heritage to some but deep racial wounds to others.

The Sons of Confederate Veterans marched in the 47-year-old Homestead parade with the rebel flag last November after a Veterans' Day parade in Palm Beach County had been canceled.

That sparked an outcry by the Miami-Dade chapter of the NAACP and others.

The NAACP is the most racist organization in the country with LULAC coming in a close second.

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[Thor]

It just goes to prove that many people are truly ignorant about the South, The Civil War and it's causes, and Southern beliefs. They also try to take something relevant and sentimental to many and turn it into something evil.  While Hitler used the swastika as his preferred icon, now deemed "evil", the swastika is actually a good luck symbol.