Landing in Oklahoma City on Wednesday, President Barack Obama—who is en route to El Reno, Oklahoma, where he’ll become the first sitting president to visit a federal prison facility—was greeted by both supporters and protesters. The latter group greeted him with Confederate flags.
The tasteless display was organized by Andrew Duncomb, a.k.a “the Black Rebel,” an African American man who has lead several similar demonstrations in the Oklahoma City area.
“It’s not the flag that’s the symbol of the racism,” he told Oklahoma City’s local Fox affiliate during a July 11 rally. “…There might have been racism way back then with the slavery and everything else but that’s all in the history. Look at all these people they come out here and followed me out here.”
He repeated a similar sentiment to News Channel 4 during a demonstration on July 14.