Let's back up and establish some context here. The Six Flags theme park chain takes its name from its original, flagship park — Six Flags Over Texas, which opened in 1961. The park was named for the flags of the six nations that at some point had dominion over what is now the state of Texas: Spain, France, Mexico, the Republic of Texas, the United States of America, and... the Confederate States of America. So, of course, visitors to Six Flags Over Texas have been able to see those six flags flying over the park.
Note that the Confederate flag that the park has flown at the park (at least in recent years) is the "Stars and Bars" flag and not the battle flag of the Army of Northern Virginia that most people associate with the Confederacy today.
Other Six Flags parks, including the two I've visited in the past decade — Six Flags Magic Mountain in Southern California and Six Flags Great America outside Chicago, have flown six American flags at or near the entrance to their parks, instead of the six flags of Texas history. And Six Flags' corporate logo depicts simple, undecorated pennants rather than any identifiable national or state flags.
The Texas park, located in Arlington in the Dallas-Fort Worth metro area, originally included six lands themed to each of the six nations that ruled over Texas. But the park in the 1990s changed the name of The Confederacy land to The Old South. And Six Flags has diluted or abandoned historic land theming in its parks over the past generation, with theming pretty much limited to those areas and attractions devoted to its DC Comics and other licensed franchises.
"We always choose to focus on celebrating the things that unite us versus those that divide us," Six Flags spokeswoman Sharon Parker told the Fort Worth Star-Telegram. "As such, we have changed the flag displays in our parks to feature American flags."
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So in other words, it was about slavery.
The flags at Six Flags simply stood for the six flags that have flown over the state of Texas, nothing else. There is no reason for the parks to make this change. Political correctness is going to destroy us. We've become too thin skinned as a nation.
(That's the international perspective. Do what you want, internally...)
Actually while we're concerned with righteousness, give all the land west of Appalachia back to the Natives and Mexicans, before America got greedy and took over the continent. Let's be real real fair and relocate non Native Americans to Oklahoma and give the best land back to the true Natives! The protesters can be the first in line! No racist USA! Lol
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