The Fort Worth Stockyards has banned the Confederate flag from future parades after a video emerged of the Sons of Confederate Veterans Texas Division waving the flag at the “Fort Worth Goes Green” parade.
A video posted by the group shows them marching down the parade route while an announcer described them as a “historical, patriotic and non-political organization” dedicated to preserving the history of the 1861-1865 period, per WFAA.
There were two chapters represented by the organization at the parade, one from Fort Worth and the other from Grapevine, per The Dallas Morning News. As the chapters marched, they handed out Confederate flags to those watching the parade.
Following the parade on Monday, the Stockyards released a statement that they will ban groups from the parade who do not promote true Western heritage.
“We believe in the right of individuals and organizations to have diverse opinions and backgrounds, but do not condone the soliciting of propaganda or tolerate divisive symbols or flags of any kind,” says the statement, per WFAA. “The Fort Worth Stockyards is addressing the situation internally and will ensure moving forward, there will be no participation from organizations that detract from the goal of uniting the community for the purpose of the celebration or event.”
Camp commander of R.E. Lee Camp #239, Joe “Festus” Allcock, explained in the video that this was the group’s first year participating in the parade after being excluded from the Stock Show parade previously.
“We try to do the Stock Show parade, but we’ve been ostracized out of there,” Allcock said on the video, per Yahoo. “They’ve denied the battle flag for the last six years, and so it’s an ongoing battle with them.”
Despite being denied from the Stock Show parade, a representative from the “Cowtown Goes Green” parade welcomed them to participate in the event this year.
“The lady I spoke with, they were more than happy to have us,” Allcock said, per Yahoo.
Stockyards’ spokespeople did not indicate who approved the float, but it is clear that it will not be returning to the parade next year.
SCV is neo-Confederate group known for their violent and white supremacist leanings.
Who were they bothering during the parade, hmmm? Were they being violent? Bet money if it was a BLM or a gay pride group, they wouldn’t ban them from marching and flying their symbolic flags high up in the air! Those groups are just as decisive because they offend many people with their beliefs. Sort of ironic that the parade organizers are the ones actually being decisive by picking and choosing who can or cannot march in their parade. Any organization should have the freedom to march as long as they do it peacefully.
Prove it.
god bless america
The Confederate flag is a racist ad campaign flying under the guise of white innocence. Bias media sites, like this one, often publish divisive non-stories in order to create righteous anger out of thin air. Well done, DX news.
Lets see what group has been burning and looting and terrorizing? oh yeah BLACK LIVES MATTER. You are a coward and a racist. SCV has many BLACK members who’s ancestors carried that “racist” banner.
words from a true democrat or rino communist
And you are a damned liar
That’s a lie. You must have stopped at wikipedia, a highly prejudicial resource
The original statement is absolutely false. The SCV is a 501(c)3 organization that has allows no violent or white supremacist activities of its members. It’s a normal patriotic, heritage organization.
Lies
Oh for crying out loud! Our nation’s history, and that of our state, includes the attempt to secede from the union. For better or worse, it is our nation’s history. But once again, we have to pander to those too weak to acknowledge it.
Can we also get the organizers to remove the other flags of perversion? I’m disgusted with the 6-color flag of satan (God’s rainbow has 7 colors).
You are thinking like SATAN BOY!
bill your trues colors just showed through
Are you an expert on how satan thinks? How long did you spend at his feet to learn his thoughts?
Let’s do the same for Mexico, Ukraine, Puerto Rico…
In order to best implement communism, a nation must first erase its’ history.
they had better bring plenty of body bags
Texas was part of the Confederate States of America and that is part of our AMERICAN history and heritage! Remember the Alamo!
TEXAS RACISTS ARE PROUD OF WHAT?
The Alamo where a bunch of white land stealing rebels defied the governing athourity of Mexico. Texas was Mexico’s property not that of the U.S.
Six flags over Texas. One was a Confederate flag. Check your history and stop virtue signaling Stockyards. By the way, the pride flag wasn’t one of the six.
Six Flags is in Arlington not Fort Worth
Trump, The Confederacy and Nazi’s want to destroy the Constitution and Democracy, The Ukrainian flags represent a country Fighting FOR it’s Democracy. And Black Lives Matters want equal treatment under the law, terrible stuff right??????
azigon I am 74, I understand all that you are saying. I have a strong Military family. Only 1 didn’t come back, Iraq died no May 19, 2005.
Now I have a 17 year old who want’s too join the Military. Flags are.not the problem or issues. We can never eliminate I history but there are people who want too eliminate my children, grandchildren and great children.
These damn flags are not eliminating my history, politicians are. Let’s see how many of you will vote to keep my history, will you be a VOTER or sit back and complain about a FLAG?
I agree. Personally, I think ALL of history should be studied. The good, the bad, and the ugly. When we try to re-write it to suit our own biases, or political views we do an injustice to ourselves AND our posterity. The actions and events of today will be the HISTORY of tomorrow. Nothing can change that. If one chooses to ignore it, then it is their right to be ignorant.
Ukraine is fighting to keep the secret that they have been the money laundering center for our deep state Democrats, they are hiding the fact that they are the world’s largest country involved in child trafficking, they don’t want you to know that they built bio labs where they have been developing strains of disease to release all over the world. Think covid! What the media doesn’t tell you is that Putin has not attacked the people of Ukraine, but the bio labs, the neo nazi’s and the corrupt government of Ukraine that has been fighting against the Russian residents of the Ukrainian territories since 2014. Effectively exterminating anyone who does not goose step to the communist manifesto of the Ukrainian neo Nazi’s. Putin is revealing this information and rescuing the people of Dombas region. It might do you will to learn some history of the area instead of sucking down the brainwashing media propaganda.
anna pack your stuff and leave america while you still can or fill your hands
Gypsy I will pack my bag when you pack your. So let’s start packing,my husband, father and more family members than you can count hair on your body. See you at the airport!
Who cares about Bone Spurs but a Sucker or Loser.
words from a true patriot
Yeah right! You don’t know what a true patriot is because you are still on top of the ground not under.
The current SCV head of “heritage” defense is James Ronald Kennedy, and the previous head was his twin Walter D. Kennedy. They are known as the Kennedy Twins.
One of their recent books supports reparations for slavery, BUT NOT WHAT YOU THINK, they feel it was an injustice that slave owners in the South during and after the Civil War weren’t paid for their slaves and they want compensation for these slaves.
One of the books that the SCV heavily pushed and sold had a chapter or two on how the 20th century civil rights movement was a Jewish conspriacy.
There is a lot more of this. They put on the public face of “heritage,” but internally they think slavery is justified by God. Their leaders are outraged that the Southern Baptists apologized for slavery. They had a raging angry article in their publication “Confederate Veteran” because most Southern Christians don’t believe that slavery is justified by God.
They have all sorts of things that is hostile to the very basis of a democratic society.
I am published by two university presses on the neo-Confederate movement. Conservatives should be extremely wary of this movement and their attempts to market themselves and their objectives as conservative.
Also, this movement supports secessionists and the idea of secession.
This comment is about their racist agenda and anti-democratic agenda. I will do another post about patriotism and the state.
The SCV has neither “racist agenda” nor “anti-democratic” agenda. Your statement to that effect is an absolute lie. It’s a patriotic heritage organization. What sort of debased people wouldn’t remember and honor their war dead?
The SCV is the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans, and the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers. Its part of Texas (and other) history. Ft Worth is cowering to some pretty embarrassing issues. Next you people will be flying the LGBTQ flag at the court house.
As Americans we are really lucky to live in a very large nation with a flourishing economy. Flourishing compared to most of the world. We can get in a car and drive thousands of miles without a border stop. We enjoy having hundred of millions of fellow citizens with whom we have a share culture. We have great institutions of science and technology.
With the power of our economy and living in a Great Power we enjoy security from enemies and do not end up as the pawn of foreign powers.
We tend to take it for granted and tned to think that we are God’s favorites.
Honoring Confederates is a very fundamental threat to our nation.
[1] Honoring Treason: What ever contorted reasoning might be put forward, the Confederacy was an armed insurrection that would have broken up the nation.Had it succeeded we would be now living in a bunch of quarelling fragments and certainly no match in the 20th century against the Axis powers or the communist powers during the Cold War.
History is really long, and honoring treason with monments legitimizes treason in the future. It sets a precedent. At any one time it may seem like it isn’t a threat, but it is like those hidden fractures that reveal themselves when an object is subjected to stress.
As it is, the Russians have cultivated relations with various secessionist efforts in the United States.
[2] Nations divided by race, ethnicity, religion are easy prey for hostile foreign powers. People believe in a national identity because it works for them and they feel a part of that nation.
Confederate monuments honor another nation which isn’t ours, and whatever the excuses made for them, they state that racial minorities are not part of the American nation either.
These Confederate monuments create a division which is very easy for those hostile to our nation to exploit.
Whereas the Russians are appealing to certain white nationalist secessionists, the Chinese communist publish human rights reviews of the treatment of racial minorities in the United States.
[3] Anyone who strives for excellence reviews past performance with an eye to improvement. Nations are the same. Though on the left they tend to review national history to cauterwaul and show off their virtue, we shouldn’t just react to their antics.
Every star athlete is his or her most severe critic of themselves to push themselves to do better. Every business operation that hopes to suceed criticially reviews its own performance to improve upon it.
New inventions are driven by discontent with the current methods of doing things.
It is fine to critically review things to strive for improvement.
Rejecting neo-Confederacy and its elements on the landscape would be one of those improvement for a better nation.
Well spoken
The ‘Confederate’ flag was actually a unit flag. There were many versions of Confederate flag. Regardless of the controversies, the actual flag was the stars and bars on a white flag. These are in fact U.S. flags and Naval ‘Jacks.’ It does not stand for slavery, but states rights versus a despotic centralized federal government.
They are not United States Flags, They were the flag of secessionists for the Confederacy in order to maintain Slavery.
The Democrats who find this flag offensive are the same Democrat party that flew the flag proudly and fought to keep their slavery. Seems a bit hypocritical!
Kathleen, it was the Southern Dixiecrat’s not Democrats. Strom Thurmond was one of the head Dixiecrats who took over the Republicans party, when they passed the Civil Rights Bills. Eisenhower received the last of the black votes 54%.
more to that could be said . it is history and america is and will always be a free country so all you communist pack your bags and leave or fill your hands
I think the ideology of the 1860’s Democratic Party is the ideology of the Republican Party today. I believe it\t changed in the 1930’s with Roosevelt’s New Deal.
Fantastic response! I never have understood the total selfishness and lack of empathy certain people exhibit defending the Confederate flag. All of their protestations about the flag being a part of history, or only being a “unit flag”, or being equivalent to other flags being flown by people they find objectionable…. Let’s face it, it’s really just about racism, plain and simple.
If you’re one of those defending the Confederate flag, have some cajones, at least admit what your ‘love’ is really all about.
I suggest you do some further reading. You are sorely misinformed.
I suggest YOU do some further reading. Honoring those who would divide this country so they could own slaves is nothing to be proud of; nothing to celebrate. History yes, but that’s like waving swastika flags, also history.
The majority of those in the Confederate army or their families did NOT own any slaves. This myth has been debunked may times.
That’s because the whites were the overseers. The Plantation owner had them to beat and watch slaves work the fields and shoot run away slave’s if they tried to leave.
The wealthy Plantation owners put the overseer’s in a rage to go fight for the South for our Country. Something’s have never changed, they still make the poor whites think they are on their level but you are not. You go to jail and they go to the island too count their money on their Luxury yachts, docked on the Mediterranean Sea.
this is your two cents and this is a free country unless your trying to censor americans
“They aren’t saying what I want them to say so I will just put words in their mouth” – Sorry, that’s not how rational adult communication works. The SCV is a heritage organization with 501c3 status. Remembering war dead is proper, what sort of debased people wouldn’t?
Those supporting the display of the Confederate flag at these very public events are manifesting their loyalty to their ancestors’ intent to separate themselves from a dictatorial & confiscatory central government.
Our monuments are to the Confederate soldiers, almost none of whom owned any slaves themselves, who perished in the Cause of Seperation. This was not treason, this was following the Constitutional avenues for addressing irreconcilable differences between the original 13 States.
The Russians are a White Christian, straight nation intent on remaining so. This puts them directly opposite the deviates, climate hoaxers, and race baiters of the current WH occupiers and their elitist supporters.
Russians did not: breed the BLM rioters, nor sponsor anitifa arson, nor permit the Tex/Mex border to remain porous enough to admit millions more illegals, nor enable the families of biden,pelosi,romney,kerry to purloin US deveopment funds for Ukraine, nor place the entire US nation’s finances in jeopardy. US “citizens” did that.
The White Christian race explored, developed, constructed, fought, bled & died to establish the US as world leader. All other races played very minor roles. Their soros, rothschild foreign banking sponsors are funding attacks on police, white culture, and our wisely written US Constitution/ Bill of Rights.
Reject globalism, pervert agendas, and any manifestation of anti-White sentiment.
Ban the blm riot flag, pedophile rainbow, reconquista banners first before closing public display of the Confederate flag.
Caucasian, remember President Truman integrated the Military and put black soldiers on the frontline because to many Caucasian were killed in world l, he then wanted to deport the black soldiers family members too Liberia. General Eisenhower informed him that if he did that blacks would desert and good look for their families and the United State would lose the War.
Not much has changed. Black soldiers fight for this country and we don’t care about a Confederate Flag. They fought for freedom but when they came home, not allowed to Vote or apply for good jobs. If you think you can win without minorities you better think again. My nephew didn’t die for just blacks soldiers all soldiers were his brother’s. First soldier to die in the Iraqi Surge was an undocumented soldier from El Paso!
Ask Rick Perry and former President Bush!
words from a true communist
I Honor the Founders of Fort Worth. I typed a lengthy explanation, but The Censors fear The Truth more than The Judgement of The Lord, so it got deleted. Anyway, look it up for yourself, without proud Confederate Veterans like Khleber Miller Van Zandt, Buckley Burton Paddock and John Peter Smith, the city of Fort Worth would likely have been bypassed by the Railroads and would not have grown to the size that it had by the first quarter of the Twentieth Century. All of the “Improvements” up to that time, had been made by Confederate Veterans. Note to The Censors: I don’t need you. I am no keyboard activist. I can, will, and frequently do, bypass the biased online media, and take my case directly to The People. I routinely distribute bullet point fact sheets, give presentations to heritage groups and genealogical societies, and engage in discussion with the general public whenever and wherever the opportunity presents itself. I often hear my words repeated to me by those with whom I have previously had conversations with. You may control the narrative here in cyberspace, but I still roam at will among the populace and no one prevents me from saying exactly what I think or sharing what I know. I am, figuratively speaking, a blowtorch in a land of snowflakes. I am a “Fire Eater” whose knowledge on the subjects of Slavery, Texas History, and the Confederacy, is vastly superior to the overwhelming majority of my detractors. Few, if any, can lock horns in a debate with me and come through unscathed. That’s why ignorant, cowardly, internet forum moderators don’t even try.
Well spoken by a queen of the south.
“The Fort Worth Stockyards has banned the Confederate flag from future parades..”
Very good. There are some people who want to break up this country. They should be considered as traitors. Breaking up the United States would lead to China and/or Russia ruling over us. Remember: “United we stand, Divided we fall”.
Ksm we can talk about FLAGS but very little on VOTING. That bothersome! I have my late husband’s Flag, Viet Nam my father’s Flag, World War ll, Germany and Japan.
When you fly a flag remember we need to VOTE. That’s why a Confederate Flag scream VOTE!!!!!
censorship at work
Never understood why people want to celebrate a group of traitors that lost a war.
I never understood why anything related to the lgbt movement was ever celebrated. A man taking another man’s penis in his anus is not what I call something worthy of celebrating. Yet, it is everywhere, being forced upon everyone.
Polarized definition:
to cause something, especially something that contains different people or opinions, to divide into two completely opposing groups.
I doubt that ANY reader of The Dallas Express supports slavery nor racial discrimination.
The American people are being played.
They are being gamed, duped…encouraged by narratives to find outrageous offense at an opposing narrative.
This is by design.
The “rage divisiveness” is deliberately caused in order to distract people from recognizing that our entire system (government agencies, media and corporations) is full of filthy corruption and cover-ups.
Both political parties included.
Expose the corruption and lies. Expose the cover-ups. This is the way forward.
What should be banned is the ridiculous Green movement.
no lets see who they are
What should be banned is the ridiculous Green movement!
Do we still pray… We have removed God the one with Jesus for a son, from our country and it is destroying our country. Bring back God or give up to Satan
God has taken us through the Good, Bad and Ugly, now it’s time for us to treat each other BEAUTIFULLY.
Not surpising that Ft. Worth, home of the Dixiecrats has gone woke. Let’s ignore history and pretend it didn’t happen. Let’s call the people who fought for their lives racist criminals and terrorists. Oh wait weren’t all those criminals and terrorists Democrats fighting to keep their slaves. Oh then we must cover up our crimes by denying history ever happened! Hypocrites!
They didnt fight for their lives, they fought to own other human beings. Please try to understand facts, not memes.
Please try to read with comprehension and understand when sarcasm is being used! Seems you totally ignored or misunderstood these TWO sentences which give you a CLEAR picture that I was being sarcastic: Let’s call the people who fought for their lives racist criminals and terrorists. Oh wait weren’t all those criminals and terrorists Democrats fighting to keep their slaves?” The second sentence seems to have been lost on you. Reading full sentences and reading with comprehension in text is key to understanding the English language. Don’t pick someone apart without FULLY READING what they wrote! Thanks!
I don’t understand why we can’t show the confederate flag, it’s part of history, especially if the middle eastern women are allowed to wear their burkas in retail stores, schools, etc. Then again, why did they take prayer out of the schools but the middle eastern girls can wear their burkas???
dems and rinos now censoring ftw stock yards are we in a free country or under communist rule
Ask the Mayor of Fort Worth. If you don’t like their response, pack your bags and move there.
But there’s that pesky First Amendment and federal law against denial of civil rights.
As well as local permits, city ordinances and other applicable law…
Fort Worth had the largest United Confederate Veterans Camp in the country, with over 1200 members during the early 20th Century. Confederate Major Khleber Miller Van Zandt came to the city in 1866, and the cabin he resided in sits on its original site adjacent to Farrington Field. He was instrumental in bringing commerce to the city and was President of Fort Worth National Bank from near the time of its inception in 1874 until his death in 1930; at which time the bank occupied, at twenty seven stories, the tallest structure in the city; an edifice which still stands today. Van Zandt eventually rose to be the National Commander of the U. C. V. Khleber’s brother. Isaac, was a leading Fort Worth physician. Buckley Burton Paddock, another Confederate Veteran, conceived the “Tarantula Map” that envisioned the routes that the railroads that would take coming into town from various points on the compass. He would be closely associated with bringing his fanciful notions to fruition. The Paddock Viaduct, connecting Downtown to Northside, bears his name. John Peter Smith, who fought with Sibley in New Mexico, was Fort Worth’s first school master, and he dedicated land for the hospital that bears his name, as well as the acreage for Oakland Cemetery. Confederate Veterans Addison and Randolph Clark laid the foundations for what would become Texas Christian University, and there are statues of them on the campus. The community of Hurst is named for Confederate William Letchworth Hurst. Confederate Major James Madison Handley is the namesake of the small community of Handley. Mansfield is an amalgamation of names of Ralph Mann and Julian Feild, whose gristmill supplied grain to the Confederacy. Julian’s son, Julian Theodore Feild, was a Confederate soldier, who became another notable Fort Worth doctor credited with bringing the first microscope to the city. The Tarrant County city of Arlington was named to honor Robert E. Lee, who resided in Arlington Virginia before the war; where Arlington National Cemetery.is now located. A replica of Lee’s home sits in what was Lee Park in Dallas; where the statue was removed. The Contributions that the United Confederate Veterans made to the city of Fort Worth are key to its early development, and their impact is still felt today. The Stock Show Association had men like Marion Sansom Sr., for whom a park on the Northside is named. His father, R. P. Sansom, served with the 20th Texas (Elmore’s Regiment). Marion was on the executive committee of the Parson’s Brigade Reunion, when it was held in Alvarado. VanZandt Jarvis, grandson of Isaac Van Zandt, was President of the Stock Show Association during the time that the exhibition was moving from North Side Coliseum to the Will Rogers Complex. Western Heritage, all the way to the Pacific Coast, and more importantly, Texas Heritage.. Fort Worth Heritage… is Confederate Heritage. You don’t have to like it, but the fact remains regardless.
At every turn those seeking to erase American History do so with the belief that by tearing down statues, changing history books and the vilification of historical facts will bring about a Socilist utopia. In fact, at every turn in history only misery and genocide results from ideological tyrrany. Ametica’s history should not be erased, it should be preserved and documented. America cannot be erased.
Tell that to the Governor of Florida.
Racism is a worse sin than others it seems. Interesting time in our history. Can’t say it seems fair to block this flag over pride flags but do agree the flag is offensive and creates division. People were wrongly killed and enslaved for their race under this flags foundation. Can’t really say the same for the pride flag IMO.
The citizen-soldiers who fought for the Confederacy personified the best qualities of America. The preservation of liberty and freedom was the motivating factor in the South’s decision to fight the Second American Revolution. The tenacity with which Confederate soldiers fought underscored their belief in the rights guaranteed by the Constitution. These attributes are the underpinning of our democratic society and represent the foundation on which this nation was built.
Today, the Sons of Confederate Veterans is preserving the history and legacy of these heroes so that future generations can understand the motives that animated the Southern Cause.
The SCV is the direct heir of the United Confederate Veterans, and the oldest hereditary organization for male descendants of Confederate soldiers. Organized at Richmond, Virginia in 1896, the SCV continues to serve as a historical, patriotic, and non-political organization dedicated to ensuring that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved.
Membership in the Sons of Confederate Veterans is open to all male descendants of any veteran who served honorably in the Confederate armed forces.
Quote:
“We believe in the right of individuals and organizations to have diverse opinions and backgrounds, but do not condone the soliciting of propaganda or tolerate divisive symbols or flags of any kind,” says the statement, per WFAA. “The Fort Worth Stockyards is addressing the situation internally and will ensure moving forward, there will be no participation from organizations that detract from the goal of uniting the community for the purpose of the celebration or event.”
Translation: We do not agree with the SCV’s or any pro-Confederate viewpoint, so they will all be banned. Only opinions approved by the government, such as pro-BLM or pro-gay and transgender, will be tolerated and allowed.