Kid Rock defends use of Confederate flag at NAACP meeting.

[RandySF]

Grammy-nominated artist Kid Rock told nearly 10,000 people at the Detroit NAACP branch's annual fundraising dinner that his use of the Confederate flag during on-stage performances has nothing to do with how he feels about blacks.

"I love America. I love Detroit, and I love black people," the musician said Sunday night during the annual Fight for Freedom Fund dinner at Cobo Center.

Kid Rock, whose real name is Robert Ritchie, used the event to diffuse criticism aimed at the Detroit NAACP branch which honored him with its Great Expectations Award.....

Earlier, a group of about 50 people picketed outside Cobo Center in protest of the decision to honor Ritchie. The group also burned a replica of the flag, considered a symbol of racism and oppression to blacks in the South. It was carried by secessionist Southern troops in the American Civil War.



http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/05/01/state/n141153D83.DTL#ixzz1L9ikM6dG

[proud2BlibKansan]

1. The negative brought out by that flag far outweighs any positive

Time to give the damn thing up.

[calimary]

7. +1,000,000!

[Gidney N Cloyd]

2. That's just the start of stuff that talentless jackass needs to defend...

[Guy Whitey Corngood]

10. You beat me to it. nt

[RandySF]

3. For the record, Robert Ritchie was a surbirban kid

He grew up in the very nice suburb of Romeo, pretty far from Detroit proper. His dad owned several used car dealerships and a six-acre orchard.

[Drale]

11. Yeah its all an act

like Larry the Cable Guy, hes a classically trained actor from a family of classically trained actors.

[Berserker]

4. Kid Rock

is an asshole. A republican asshole.

[Fuzz]

5. Yes yes, and the nazi symbol was something positive before the nazis used it, doesn't

mean you can fly it and say you don't mean it in 'that' way. It's got a negative connotation for a reason, dipshit.

[RagAss]

6. Shit Stain !

[MadHound]

8. So instead, he's just celebrating a bunch of traitors to this country.

Stay classy there Ritchie.

[sufrommich]

9. I'm always amazed he loves that flag so much. I don't believe

he's racist, he's got a mixed race son who he fought very hard to get custody of. I think it has more to do with his love of southern rock, but regardless, it's tacky and inappropriate.