One week after Walmart and other chains pulled all Confederate merchandise from their stores in light of renewed debate over the icon sparked by the shooting at a historically black South Carolina church, Walmart denied one Confederate flag supporter's request to make a cake featuring the symbol and the phrase "Heritage not hate."
When Chuck Netzhammer's cake request was denied, he returned to the same store on a mission. He asked for a cake made to look like the ISIS flag, and they didn't turn him down. He captured the sheet cake on video:
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