A Christmas parade in the Ozark Mountain community of Springdale, Arkansas didn’t just have the customary Santa Claus.
According to the Kansas City Star, one of the floats at Saturday’s Christmas Parade of the Ozarks featured two men dressed as Confederate soldiers and flying the Confederate flag.
One of the two Confederates carried a rifle with him.
In video posted to Facebook, the two soldiers are asked to hand out candy, as is customary at Christmas parades.
“I got bullets. Want bullets?” replies the man with the rifle.
“Why do you have a rifle with a bayonet on it?” asks someone in the crowd.
“I’m looking for Yankees!” the man answers.
A reporter for the Democrat Gazette talked to a man who was at the parade and turned his back to the Confederates.
“It was supposed to be a Christmas parade,” the man said. “Everything that goes along with Christmas was supposed to be celebrated. It was completely the wrong place and the wrong time to celebrate your ‘heritage.'”
The local Sons of the Confederate Veterans group refused to comment to the Democrat Gazette and Springdale’s downtown association denied helping plan the parade but said that it supported the Confederates.
Watch video of the float posted to Facebook below.
https://www.facebook.com/ThundermanoftheDeadEndScribes/videos/2224337391170544/?t=0
Sources: rawstory.com
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