The Kentucky State Fair board moves to ban confederate flag merchandise at the State Fair and other events, like the flea market.App Users: Watch mobile videoThe local NAACP made the request in the wake of the Charleston church shooting.Everyone, but one, voted to pass the motion without discussion.They said the State Fair is all about promoting tourism and this vote is just one way to stand by their mission.The sale of confederate flag merchandise is now banned at all state fairground events.“We are much more than the State Fair, and you don't want to pick and choose events. It's either a policy you adopt or you don't,” State Fair Board Chairman Mark Lynn said.The request from the NAACP comes more than a month after Dylan Roof killed nine African Americans during bible study in Charleston, South Carolina.Roof waved the flag in a picture plastered all over the internet.Chains like Amazon and Walmart already agreed to ban the merchandise.Something the civil rights organization hoped would happen in Kentucky.“We are very, very pleased that the State Fair board, on behalf of the Commonwealth of Kentucky granted our request, as we try to move the state forward,” President of Louisville’s NAACP Raoul Cunningham said.But everyone isn't taking this as a step in the right direction.WLKY spoke to a vendor who sells confederate flags at the flea market and he said this ban frustrates him.“No, I’m not even going to come up, if they're going to vote on something that's not a law. Tell you what you can or cannot sell, that's not a law. I mean this is America,” Devito said.Devito travels from state to state selling stars and bars merchandise.He said he will no longer travel to the Kentucky Flea Market, an event he said was good for business.“What's that say to the people that have ancestors who died in that war? We just going to sweep it under the rug and be done with it? That's what I’m so mad about,” Devito said.Devito said he understands the offense some take to the battle flag, but said the ban just goes way too far.Cunningham said he hopes this ban sets an example.“This will not stop it immediately, but I think it goes a long way to stopping it,” he said.The State Fair board said there are contracts in place that they will not go back on.So merchandise may be sold this year and even next year until those contracts expire.But, they said they will be asking vendors to refrain from selling the merchandise this year.The Kentucky Department of Parks is also adopting new guidelines.No merchandise displaying the confederate flag will be sold at park gift shops, with the exception of books and DVD’s which put the flag in historical context.Annual Civil War battle re-enactments held at certain parks are not affected.