The store owner is demanding she apologize
out of his window. Boot said she met with him afterwards and he apologized. He told her he’d bought the bandana at the local Your Dollar Store.
Boot, a couple of supporters and a reporter went to the store last Saturday and offered to pay for the bandanas. The owner Allan Carter gave them to her and she“I needed to make a broader statement that this is not going to happen in our community,” Boot said, adding she told Carter the history of the flag and “how it’s been taken over by white supremacist groups as a symbol of white supremacy, oppression, and hatred of people of colour.
to the mayor and council in response to the incident, demanding an apology from Boot whose actions he called “unprofessional.” He said that before he arrived at the store, Boot bullied his staff and left one employee in tears. Carter said he had not specifically ordered the Confederate bandanas, but rather they came in a large shipment of dozens of patterns he’d bought to keep up with a demand for face coverings during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Carter said his store carried a similar product a few years ago that had resulted in a complaint and he stopped selling them. “I am not a racist,” he said.
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