Local farmer Donnie Spell drove a green John Deere tractor with the Confederate flag hitched to the

Local farmer Donnie Spell drove a green John Deere tractor with the Confederate flag hitched to the back. The makeshift float was pulling a wooden wagon with a red, white and blue sign on the side reading white history month and, just below, HUG WTE PPL in all capital letters.
ireland rental car In applying for a parade permit, Spell wrote on his application that his entry in the parade would be an antique tractor pulling a trailer with signage advertising watermelons for sale in a nearby parking lot, notes local ABC affiliate WTVD.
An unidentified neighbor of Spell s told WTVD that he didn t think Spell was attempting to be cruel or humorous. The neighbor apparently did not say what he thought Spell was actually trying to be instead.
It s very offensive in a lot of ways, actually, to just promote, you know, that it s only white history month, said Stacey Blackwell in one of the ABC affiliate s obligatory person-on-the-street interview.
Kenny Bullock, director of the Hope Mills parks and recreation department, told the Observer that he had asked one of Spell s family members ireland rental car to remove the sign before the parade started. He discovered that his request not been honored ireland rental car when people began calling him to complain right in the middle of the day s pageantry.