Confederate Flag Protesters Can Kiss Kid Rock’s Ass, But It’s OK, He Loves Black People

South Carolina made some late-to-the-party history Friday by finally removing the Confederate flag from the grounds of the state capitol, spurred on by the massacre of nine black parishioners by a racist, terrorist mass murderer. Unfortunately, there are some holdouts who continue to advocate for the Confederate flag, including some Congressional Republicans, and maybe even a Detroit rocker who is surprisingly not Ted Nugent.

Well, Nugent is defending the Confederate flag, but nobody really cares about that. The Detroit chapter of Rev. Al Sharpton’s National Action Network is, however, protesting a museum exhibit funded by native son Robert “Kid Rock” Ritchie over his past use of the Confederate flag as a prop in his shows. The group has threatened a boycott of the museum if, and only if, Kid Rock refuses to renounce the Confederate flag.

The Rev. Charles Williams II, president of the Michigan Chapter of the NAN and pastor at King Solomon Baptist Church in Detroit, issued a statement Monday calling for Rock to keep the flag out of his performances.

At the demonstration, Williams called Rock “the hometown hero who is a zero with the Confederate flag” and asked museum officials to take his name off the exhibit Rock funded if he doesn’t renounce the Confederate flag.

…”How in the hell can Kid Rock represent Detroit and wave that flag just generating millions and millions in ticket sales — a flag that represents genocide to most of Detroit?” asked Sam Riddle, political director of the NAN.

Kid Rock has addressed concerns over his use of the flag in the past. At a 2011 NAACP dinner where he received an award, Rock copped to the old “Lynyrd Skynyrd” defense, and professed his love for black people…READ MORE

By: Tommy Christopher

Tommy Christopher is The Daily Banter's White House Correspondent and Political Analyst. He's been a political reporter and liberal commentator since 2007, and has covered the White House since the beginning of the Obama administration, first for PoliticsDaily, and then for Mediaite. Christopher is a frequent guest on a variety of television, radio, and online programs, and was the villain in the documentaries The Audacity of Democracy and Hating Breitbart. He's also That Guy Who Live-Tweeted His Own Heart Attack, and the only person to have ever received public apologies from both Rush Limbaugh and Glenn Beck.