Thread: Al Sharpton’s Group Demanded He Denounce Confederate Flag. So Kid Rock Gave Megyn Kel

Al Sharpton’s Group Demanded He Denounce Confederate Flag. So Kid Rock Gave Megyn Kelly This Statement to Read On-Air.

Jul. 9, 2015 9:19pm
Jason Howerton

Al Sharpton’s National Action Network has publicly called on Kid Rock to denounce the Confederate flag and stop using it during his performances, claiming the flag is a racist symbol.

The rock star responded to the group’s request in a statement that Fox News host Megyn Kelly read on the air Wednesday night — and his critics aren’t going to like it.



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“He has shared with us a message for those who are demanding that he denounce the Confederate flag,” Kelly said in the middle of a discussion on the divisive symbol with TheBlaze TV host Dana Loesch.

She then had to “modify” Kid Rock’s statement for TV.

“This is a quote, he said, ‘Please tell the people who are protesting to kiss my…ask me some questions,’” Kelly said. “I modified that for cable TV.”

Watch the segment via Fox News below:



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Kid Rock Tells Protestors to 'Kiss My Ass' Over Confederate Flag

'Rebel Soul' rocker faces criticism in his native Detroit

BY DANIEL KREPS July 10, 2015

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Even as South Carolina and major retailers officially disconnect themselves from the Confederate flag, the controversial symbol continues to have a prominent presence at Kid Rock's concerts. On Monday, the National Action Network's Michigan chapter protested outside the Detroit Historical Museum, which houses a Kid Rock exhibit, demanding that the rocker stop displaying the Confederate flag, Deadline Detroit reports. In a statement to Fox News' Megyn Kelly, Kid Rock relayed his message to those upset in his native Detroit: "Please tell the people who are protesting to kiss my ass/Ask me some questions."

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The Killer Inside Kid Rock »Although Kid Rock was born and raised in Michigan, a Union state during the Civil War, the rocker has adopted the Confederate flag to highlight his Rebel Soul, the name of his 2012 album. In recent years, Rock has retreated to his estate in rural Alabama. Rock also toured extensively with Lynyrd Skynyrd, another – albeit Southern – act that made frequent use of the Confederate flag.

As Fox News points out, Kid Rock aligns himself with the Southern pride connotations of the flag and not its racial implications, since Rock's son Robert Ritchie Jr., is biracial, and as of December 2014, the First Kiss singer also has biracial grandchildren.

Despite the controversy, the Detroit Historical Museum stood by the rocker, saying his contributions to the Motor City outweigh his appropriation of the Confederate flag, which does not feature at all in the exhibit.

"The Kid Rock Music Lab is one of 10 permanent exhibitions at the Detroit Historical Museum," the museum said in a statement, WXYZ reports. "Kid Rock’s contribution to Detroit’s music history is significant and warrants his inclusion along with other key figures like Stevie Wonder, Bob Seger, Aretha Franklin and Eminem. There are no displays of the Confederate flag in the Kid Rock Music Lab or anywhere else inside the Detroit Historical Museum."

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