r/goodnews

“Our company stands on values of human dignity, opportunity, and freedom.”

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• A leading vendor of the US delicacy that is the pickle has withdrawn from the Great American State Fair in Washington DC after North Carolina’s booth displayed a video containing a Confederate flag.
• The Mt Olive Pickle Company, which is located in eastern North Carolina and bills itself as the “#1 bestselling brand of pickles, peppers and relishes in the US”, told local news station WNCT it had been unaware that an image of the flag would be included in a video as part of the state’s exhibit.
• “Mt Olive Pickle Company was invited to participate in the North Carolina exhibit for the Great American State Fair … as part of America’s 250th celebration,” the company said, alluding to the US’s semiquincentennial on Saturday. “We are proud of our North Carolina roots, and we agreed to be a part of an exhibit, as presented to us, that would represent the best of our great state.
• “Our company stands on values of human dignity, opportunity, and freedom.”
• The Confederacy evoked by the flag was the white supremacist, losing side of the US civil war. It defended the ownership of enslaved people before its civil war defeat.