#confederate flag
Protesters block a tech bus, burn a Confederate flag, and shut down Oakland’s I-80 freeway in response to police killing of #JoeBart last night. #BlackLivesMatter
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South Carolina State Representative Jenny Horne gives a tearful, moving speech in favor of removing the confederate flag as soon as possible and not bogging what should be a straightforward bill down with amendments.
Thank you Rep. Horne for this.
The South Carolina State Legislature is debating the removal of the confederate flag today. What should be a straightforward vote of course won’t be and the debate has already proven itself to be a circus.
With that in mind, please enjoy this rant courtesy of State Senator Lee Bright. I’m not entirely sure what’s happening but I think he’s blaming the gays for everything. He throws around words like tyranny and abomination!
Meanwhile tax dollars are paying his salary.
“You come against me with hatred, repression, and violence. I come against you in the name of God. This flag comes down today!” - Brittany “Bree” Newsome
FREE BREE
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Members of the Ku Klux Klan gathered outside the South Carolina statehouse Saturday in a heated protest to oppose the removal of the Confederate flag.
But the actions of a black police officer served to drown out the message the group attempted to spread.
Leroy Smith, director of the South Carolina Department of Public Safety, was photographed helping a white protester, wearing a t-shirt with a swastika, climb the steps of the statehouse towards the shelter and water he needed to escape the gruelling heat. Temperatures in Columbia, S.C. — where the statehouse is located — hit a high of 36 C Saturday.
“I believe this photo captures who we are in South Carolina and represents what law enforcement is all about,” Smith said in a statement. “I am proud to serve this great State, and I hope this photo will be a catalyst for people to work to overcome some of the hatred and violence we have seen in our country in recent weeks. Our men and women in uniform are on the front lines every day helping people – regardless of the person’s skin color, nationality or beliefs.”
PHOTO: Rob Godfrey/Twitter
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So these past few days there have been two big issues that have been brought up in the news and have many people arguing, one being the issue with the Confederate Flag and the other being Gay Marriage being ruled legal by the Supreme Court. Now I do have a few things to say about both of these topics and I am sure there will be people on both sides who agree and disagree with me on this topics.
#1. The whole issue with the Confederate flag being taken down from stores, shops, towns, etc is honestly a load of shit, yes this will offend many people, but listen to this. This particular flag doesn’t represent people fighting for slavery. There are 13 stars on that flag and these stars represent the 13 colonies who want to secede from the Union to do as they please and follow their own rules. They didn’t want to be forced to do certain things. And yes this does imply slavery to some extent with them wanting to follow their own guidelines/rules. Yes there were people in that time that lived in the south and opposed the beliefs down there, just like there were people who lived in the north that had plantations with many slaves. Not everyone in the north was against slavery and some would capture the runaways for the money, just like some in the south would harbor runaways so they could live their lives free. Hatred towards people have been around forever and there have been many crimes or shootings that have happened over the course of this year and most of them have been whites against blacks.But one incident in what was a southern state during the Civil War, shouldn’t cause for one flag that represents someones beliefs and people who wanted to think for themselves, be taken down. It is a part of history, yes an ugly part but still history. You don’t see the World trying to make Germany change their flag after the Holocaust when one group attempted genocide on another, so why make this issue different.
#2. So today Gay Marriage was ruled legal by the Supreme Court for all states. I do not have an issue with this since one of my best friends is a <b>lesbian</b>. The one issue I do have is how the courts took a shit on the Constitution and the 10th Amendment, by imposing this ruling for every state. <u>Which under this Amendment the Federal Government can only possess the powers that it is delegated to it by the Constitution, and the remaining powers are reserved to the States to decide if they want to pass something or not.</u> To me this shows how the government is taking everything into its own hands when certain issues should be decided by the States individually. I am happy for this because there are people who have been fighting for this type of equality their entire lives, but it shouldn’t be decided by the government, it should be voted on individually within the states by the people.
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the fuckery of whiteness…
WHYYYYYYYY….
On behalf of my race, may I just say: we’re a buncha idiots and we should friggin’ know better at this point. Bet me if the maker was asked, she’d spin some line (because fairly sure it’s a she) about ‘catching Southern dreams’ or some nonsense. Argh.
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So… by now you’ve all heard about this:
Amidst all the screaming that the premise is racist - which it is - I personally couldn’t help but think “Um… didn’t Boondocks creator already announce a similar show for Amazon this past February?
So… to Hell with Benioff & Weiss’s new show - let’s dedicate our Black asses to watching Aaron McGruder’s new joint.
Especially since the world has basically become a Boondocks strip come to life.
via @vox: “I was a prominent Neo-Nazi; ignoring White Extremists is a MISTAKE”
Here’s the full transcript of Picciolini’s words in the above video (bold emphasis mine):
“In prior administrations, the [US] government has supported the fight against White extremism. They’ve recognized the threat within our own borders, but some of those policies might change.
Maybe we hear things about White extremism being removed from the Countering Violent Extremism focus, and I think that that’s a mistake.
From dozens of Jewish community centers receiving bomb threatstocemeteries and synagogues being desecrated to police officers in Las Vegas being targeted - specifically because they are law enforcement - by militiamen; we have a domestic terrorism issue that we hardly talk about because we’re so focused on the threat coming from overseas.
When Dylann Roof writes a manifesto proclaiming his hate for people and saying that he wants to murder people to progress his agenda - that, to me, is terrorism. That’s no different than an ISIS propaganda video.
The imagery of White Supremacy has changed over the last three decades. It’s gone from what-you-would-consider-your-normal-racist to something that’s more mainstream: suits and ties; fashionable haircuts; and clothes that would never identify them as Neo-Nazis until they open their mouths. And that was a concerted effort because we knew that we were turning more people away that we could eventually have on our side, if we just softened the message.
These days, with our political climate, we see a lot of coded language or dog whistles: the use of the Star of David when talking about politicians. We used to say that ‘The Jews control the media,’ and now they’ve just massaged the phrase to call it ‘Liberal Media’.
And ‘Make America Great Again’? Well, to them, that means ‘Make America WHITE Again’.
White nationalists, just like any other extremist group, promise paradise. They promise that the problems of crime and the problems of ‘White genocide’ are gonna go away. And that ‘You come from a very White, noble cause’. And that ‘your culture is worth protecting’. The problem is that nobody is trying to take that away from you.
The only problems that they have are the ones that they inflate with propaganda - with fake news - where they teach you that ‘Blacks commit more crimes against White people’ or that ‘the Jews control the media and finance system’. These are all conspiracy theories; there’s no basis in truth.
And I know this because I helped create those lies from the very beginning, and I helped spread them, and ultimately I believed them myself. And I infected that lie into other people that were innocent.
And even 20 years later, after I left the movement, I’m still pulling up the weeds from all those seeds of hate that I planted. Which is why I’ve dedicated the last 20 years of my life to help eradicate racism.”
–Christian Picciolini, former White Supremacist-turned-founder of the anti-discrimination group Life After Hate
