Confederate flag merchandise pulled from Hampton History Museum
POSTED 7:20 PM, JULY 20, 2015
BY NADEEN YANES
At the Hampton City Council earlier this month, resident Hugh Bassette held up a hat with a Confederate flag on it in protest, calling for all items with the Confederate flag on it be removed from the Hampton’s History Museum.
” I bought this a couple of years ago. The museum sells these hats and on the hats there is an emblem of the Confederate flag which as a black man, I find offensive,” Bassette told the councilmembers. “I would say it is a part of history and it belongs in the museum part, but it doesn’t belong in the gift shop for sale. The city should not be selling or involved or engaged in selling the flag on city-owned property.”
It was the second time Bassette brought the issue to city council, but he believes with the debate going on across the nation today, this time councilmembers listened. The Mayor hesitated the decision.
“I would be the last person in the world to defend the Confederate Flag,” said Hampton Mayor George Wallace. “But at the same time, I think we should reflect history accurately when we portray history in the Hampton Museum” ...
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