While not taking position, York Fair discourages sale of items with image of Confederate flag (PA)
By Dylan Segelbaum
UPDATED: 09/12/2015 04:49:08 PM EDT
Simon Zarad sells T-shirts at fairs across Pennsylvania and, at the height of this summer, was moving at least 300 with the image of the Confederate flag on them during an event.
They were "selling like crazy," he said, following calls across the United States for people to take down the flag. Those came after a white man in June shot and killed nine black parishioners at the Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, S.C. But now, Zarad said, he might sell one per day.
"It was a big issue a few months ago," said Zarad, 47, of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Though he believes vendors should be able to sell the items, he'd taken down most of his T-shirts with the flag on them by the second day of the York Fair. "I think it's over" ...
Meanwhile, Gene Schenck, a spokesman for the York Fair, said though it does not have a position on the flag either, organizers have taken steps to make sure nobody is offended ...
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