A Louisiana resident was shocked recently to learn that the retail giant Wal-Mart would not decorate a cake with a Confederate flag but had no problem producing one adorned with an ISIS battle flag.
In a video posted to YouTube last week, Chuck Netzhammer explains that employees at his local Wal-Mart rejected his order for a cake bearing an image of the Confederate flag and the words “Heritage Not Hate.”
After having his request denied, a frustrated Netzhammer later returned to the store with a new request.
“I went back yesterday and managed to get an ISIS battle flag printed. ISIS happens to be somebody who we’re fighting against right now who are killing are men and boys overseas and are beheading Christians,” Netzhammer says in the video.
Wal-Mart last week joined a slew of major companies announcing that they would no longer carry merchandise with Confederate flag imagery following a racially charged shooting in South Carolina.
“We never want to offend anyone with the products that we offer,” the retailer said in a statement. “We have taken steps to remove all items promoting the Confederate flag from our assortment — whether in our stores or on our website.”
For patrons like Netzhammer, however, the anti-flag fervor is offensive.
“Wal-Mart, can you please explain why you’re alienating Southern Americans with this trash that you allow to be sold at your store, while at the same point Confederate flag memorabilia is not allowed?” Netzhammer asks.
Wal-Mart has since apologized for making the ISIS-themed cake, insisting that the store employee who created it wasn’t familiar with the extremist imagery.
Wal-Mart spokesman Randy Hargrove told The Daily Caller: “We made the decision to stop selling Confederate flag related items promoting the flag’s image. For that reason we did not make the cake. [Netzhammer] brought in the other image of ISIS and really what happened was our associate didn’t recognize what that image was and what it meant or it wouldn’t have been made.”
Sadly, the knee-jerk controversy currently surrounding the Confederate flag makes it very likely the aforementioned Wal-Mart employee is in the majority of people who would recognize the Confederate flag as more dangerous a symbol than the ISIS battle flag, which hasn’t been cycled endlessly through media as a symbol of intolerance.
In fact, CNN is so unfamiliar with the flag under which ISIS is brutally murdering people at this very moment that its reporters can’t tell the difference between an ISIS rag and a parody covered with images of sex toys at a gay pride event.
Meanwhile, the network is very familiar with the evil, racist Confederate flag.
“South Carolina and the rest of the South only seceded to preserve the violent domination and enslavement of black people, and the Confederate flag only exists because of that secession,” CNN political commentator Sally Kohn said recently.
“To call the flag ‘heritage’ is to gloss over the ugly reality of history.”
The ugly reality of the present, however, might be a better topic for media focus. And in that reality, anyone who ever marched under the Confederate flag — whether for racist reasons or not — is currently dead. But there are a growing number of extremely intolerant and barbaric fanatics joining forces beneath ISIS flags throughout the world.
So maybe it’s time to reassess what society should focus on erasing from the face of the Earth. After all, it can be said with 100 percent certainty that there are more ISIS sleeper cells than there are Confederate soldiers and slave owners combined in America today.
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