When President Barack Obama arrives in Durant today and travels to the town’s high school to give a speech, he will apparently be greeted by residents waving Confederate flags.
In this video, shot this morning by a source for The Frontier, a woman says she doesn’t know when Obama plans on arriving. He’s set to give a speech at 5 p.m. about “expanding economic opportunity for communities across the country, including the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma,” according to the White House.
In the video, the woman tells the man about a Facebook group called “Stand by the flag rally,” and anticipated people from “Ardmore, and the Dallas-Fort Worth area” to join them later today.
South Carolina and other states removed the Confederate flag from their capitol grounds after the shooting deaths of nine members of the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C. The shootings prompted a national debate about the flag.
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