North Carolina County Slashes Funding To Volunteer Fire Dept Over Confederate Flag

[Ravening Wolf]

North Carolina County Slashes Funding To Volunteer Fire Dept Over Confederate Flag

Posted on November 19, 2017 by True Pundit Staff

A North Carolina county will slash funding to a volunteer fire department because of the department’s flying of a Confederate flag, according to a Thursday report.

While the fire department obtains $19,000 annually and $400,000 every 10 years for a new truck, Montgomery County, N.C. commissioners said they will only cover the group’s fuel and maintenance for two trucks owned by the county until the department takes down the flag, reported The Charlotte Observer.

“We feel that we would not continue to receive the financial support needed to meet our expenses if we remove our flags,” said the department after a July removal request from county commissioners, according to Montgomery Herald. “In our opinion, the protection of life and property outweighs the few people that choose to be offended and have a perverted view of a symbol that is part of our community’s history and heritage.”

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[Ravening Wolf]

NC fire department refused to take down its Confederate flag. Now there’s an ultimatum.

By Bruce Henderson

November 16, 2017 12:48 PM

UPDATED November 17, 2017 11:50 AM

Commissioners in Montgomery County say they will restrict funding to a rural volunteer fire department that for months has refused to take down the Confederate flag that waves over it.

Debate over the Uwharrie Volunteer Fire Department’s flag has simmered for months but complaints about it go back years, according to news accounts. The department, organized as a nonprofit corporation in 1983, occupies a privately owned building but gets $19,000 a year in county money plus $400,000 annually for fire trucks.

County commissioners had previously asked the department to remove the flag. This week they delivered an ultimatum.

Commissioners said by letter they would limit the fire department’s funding until it removes the flag, paying only for fuel and maintenance of the two county-owned trucks that firefighters operate. The county will also replace the Uwharrie name on the trucks with new graphics “in support of the county’s stance on equal rights and freedom of speech.”

Confederate flags have for years divided Southerners who view them as historic reminders of sacrifices suffered during the Civil War or in-your-face symbols of racism. Some of the hundreds of Confederate monuments in public places have been vandalized and ignited violence in August that left one person dead and dozens hurt in a clash in Charlottesville, Va.

Largely rural Montgomery County, whose county seat is about 50 miles east of Charlotte, is known for the low Uwharrie Mountains and 50,000-acre Uwharrie National Forest. About 27,000 people, 18 percent of them black, live there, census data shows.

Uwharrie fire officials couldn’t be reached. The department has said it relies heavily on donations from a community that supports the flags.

“We feel that we would not continue to receive the financial support needed to meet our expenses if we remove our flags,” the department wrote, the Montgomery Herald reported. “In our opinion, the protection of life and property outweighs the few people that choose to be offended and have a perverted view of a symbol that is part of our community’s history and heritage.”

County commissioners asked firefighters in July to take down the flag, Asheboro’s Courier-Tribune reported, a proposal the department cited the First Amendment in rejecting. Pressure on commissioners continued, with county and district Democrats passing resolutions against the flag.

“Years have gone by, and it’s time to take action,” said county resident Harvest Little, a member of a community group that had planned a rally Saturday to push for the flag’s removal. “This flag is tantamount to the monuments to the old South. It’s not only offensive to African Americans but to all people who see themselves as Americans.”...

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[N.B. Forrest]

FUCK the god damned niggers & the leftist cunts who truckle for them.