*Dozens of Confederate flag fans stood outside of President Obama’s hotel room in Oklahoma City Wednesday night and waved them in protest of the national tide that has turned against it.
Obama stayed at the hotel ahead of his visit today to a federal prison in El Reno, Oklahoma.
More protesters greeted Obama near an Oklahoma high school where he spoke Wednesday afternoon. One of the protestors told KFOR the demonstration was not about racism, “it is about history.”
“We’re not gonna stand down from our heritage. You know, this flag’s not racist. And I know a lot of people think it is, but it’s really not. It’s just a southern thing, that’s it,” Trey Johnson, who drove three hours from Texas to join the protest, told KFOR.
In June, Obama said the flag that flew on the grounds of South Carolina’s Capitol should be taken down and put in a museum. That flag was removed on July 10 and is being moved to the “relic room” of a military museum in Columbia, South Carolina.
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