Suddenly, American business awakes as if from a dream and decides selling racist symbolism isn’t the smartest of ideas:
.@Etsy just sent me a statement that said it is banning Confederate flags/goods. Story coming… pic.twitter.com/MsQ339JUNS
— Ryan Mac (@RMac18) June 23, 2015
BREAKING: Amazon joins retailers banning Confederate flag; story tk http://t.co/kxgACFxYy1 pic.twitter.com/icsEcJx1CR
— The Hill (@thehill) June 23, 2015
RT @ReutersPolitics: BREAKING: Prominent U.S. flag maker, Valley Forge Flag, says to stop producing and selling Confederate flags
— ProfB (@AntheaButler) June 23, 2015
.@Walmart will remove all Confederate flag merchandise from its stores, the company says. http://t.co/O3H6XV2ppK pic.twitter.com/rSToCBKwWs
— CNN (@CNN) June 22, 2015
BREAKING:
Amazon is pulling Confederate flag merchandise after sales spiked by 3,000%. http://t.co/9is3c4NbGT pic.twitter.com/lxB39kKYEU
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) June 23, 2015
And all we ever had to do to get them to do this was to have nine perfectly innocent black people get shot and killed in church. Good to know.
Apparently all it takes is a mass murder by gun to give politicians the gumption to ditch an arcane symbol. Too bad they haven’t the backbone to do anything about the actual tool used to murder . . . again, and again, and again.