Kid Rock Tells Confederate Flag Protesters Where to Kiss Him

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Hell to the no, Kid Rock’s not going to ditch the Confederate battle flag.

In a defiant statement issued to Fox News, the Detroit county-hip-hop-rock superstar told protesters demanding he stop using the controversial flag in his act just where they could kiss him.

The network’s Megan Kelly, who was doing a segment about protests in Detroit calling on Kid Rock to renounce the Confederate battle flag, increasingly seen as a racist symbol, sanitized the statement for the family audience:

“Kiss my as … kme some questions.”

But Rock’s meaning was clear, and unless something changes, he can be expected to perform at least part of his act against a Confederate battle flag when his First Kiss: Cheap Date Tour comes home to Michigan next month. Rock has scheduled a multi-night stand at the DTE Energy Music Center in Clarkston, with nine concerts from Aug. 8-22.

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On the Fox News program, Kelly and her co-host, late night radio host Dana Loesch, argued that Rock – Robert Ritchie Jr. in real life – has a biracial son and couldn’t possibly be racist.

They said he has supported Detroit through numerous charitable foundations, including the Detroit Historical Museum, where protestors gathered this week and demanded Kid Rock’s name be removed from the exhibit. READ MORE: Activists Want Kid Rock to Abandon Confederate Flag.

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• Does Kid Rock’s use of the Confederate battle flag in his performnces change your support for the artist?

Rejection of the flag has been swift in the weeks since a white supremacists’s alleged murder of nine African-Americans at prayer meeting at a Charleston, SC, church. On Friday, the Confederate flag was taken down from from the capitol grounds in South Carolina.

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