About Those Christmas Parades in North Carolina

In the past several days, one parade was canceled and one received the go-light.  Both North Carolina towns are near Raleigh, the state capital.

Garner canceled theirs, but Wake Forest will still have their annual parade.

The Wake Forest parade (Wake Forest Univ. was originally located here before it moved to Winston-Salem) has included the Sons of Confederate Veterans for decades.  The parade will go on as planned.

The City of Garner, however, canceled their parade, which has had Confederate re-enactment groups for many years,  But fears that their appearance might cause "those people" who hate all things Confederate to cause problems and disrupt it with confrontations caused the city council to cancel it this year.

It is too bad when a group can disrupt an annual, peaceful event simply through threat as "those people" do now.

Kudus to Wake Forest for standing up to "those people."  Disruptions and confrontations will not be coming from Confederate re-enactors.

--Old Secesh