CHICAGO (WBBM NEWSRADIO) -- Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker on Wednesday defended his decision to bar a band that uses the Confederate flag in its logo from playing at a state fair in Southern Illinois.
WBBM Political Editor Craig Dellimore reports from the Loop.
The rock band Confederate Railroad uses two Confederate flags in its logo, symbols Pritzker says stands for slavery and treason and now is used by racists.A critic of Pritzker’s move said the governor should also ban rapper Snoop Dogg from playing the Illinois State Fair in Springfield. The rapper’s album features a sheet-covered corpse with the name “Trump” on a toe tag.
Pritzker says it’s not the same thing.
“There is an enormous difference between the political satire, the discussion by a single artist, his political views, and the representation of truly millions of people being enslaved, hundreds of thousands of people being killed.”Some angry fans are calling for a boycott of the DuQuoin State Fair, where Confederate Railroad would have played.
