Two supporters are seen wearing orholding Kek Flags, an alt-right symbol. Alabama Governor George Wallace who promised to fight for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" began flying the Confederate flag when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy came to Alabama in 1963 to discuss integrating the state's universities. In the aftermath of a shooting apparently motivated by white supremacy, even as South Carolina's state flag and the American flag were lowered to half-staff, the Confederate flag continued to fly. The infamous tree, used for lynching, was bending over a bridge on Highway 433 toward Lexington. According to the people on TikTok and the Sun (British tabloid), the black American flag originated in the civil war and was flown by the Confederates. A year of protest against police violence, and brutal counterprotest by the police in the name of public order, had reportedly little impact on a system of policing built around a core of violence. But Lee claimed the assassination of the Great Emancipator was deplorable. Jefferson Davis believed that it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune to the South, and angrily denied rumors that he had greeted the news with exultation. A Mississippi flag seen on the side of the road in Simpson County, Mississippi. Kevin Davis sits on the tailgate of his truck in Simpson County, Mississippi. People like me its in our blood. Here is what I had to say about ISIS back in July 2014: Id bring fear and death to them all! He repeats SCVs selective semantics with precision: the south seceded over states rights to financial independence; the north and Abraham Lincoln werent against slavery at the outset; northern tariffs were killing the south; few southerners and soldiers owned humans; slavery was fading anyway; and it wasnt about white supremacy. They are met by massed and prepared force. Like other vestiges of the Confederacy, the flag outlived the Civil War. Few filmmakers can resist the thrill of the rocket's red glare and the spectacle of death; the violence is simply too exciting. It was an historic moment for gay. And when Southerners at the time said the flag represented their culture, they made it very clear whose culture they meant: "It means the Southern cause," Roy Harris, a legendary Georgia politician, said in 1951, according to Coski's book. She worries that young people now think the flag stands for the KKK. I try to be sensitive. They have been fed an entire line which makes them believe that America is no longerAmerica and that, Trump and his regimegave permission and encouragement to his followers and other supporters to engage in. There would not have been a war over tariffs.. As Hong Kong police denied the protesters a permit to march, they attacked the crowd despite its peaceful nature, using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them. The war became a national tragedy, not a just cause. Hes more than enough reason that the symbols of the Confederacy should be removed from the public square.. Johnson, CEO of the NAACP, says he wishes poor whites would recognize how powerful politicians have long played racial politics with Confederate emblems a deliberate strategy to divide them from people with shared economic interests. In the end, of course, Chauvin was found guilty on all three of his charges. The educator points to Roofs horrible, horrible 2015 massacre of black worshippers and his viral photo holding the Confederate flag as inciting a war on the emblem. It still holds true today. Their mentality is flag-draped, all noblesse oblige and wounded besiegement, but their actions are those of armies accountable only to their own leadership. As a white woman who still . Effie, its just been a bad day, the lawman said to his sister, as the six-year-old listened. Sitting there, they see clearly what those who reject violence are blind to, that the evil they face is real and it is most definitely coming. By the morning, protesters with signs and chants had dispersed, leaving the Thin Blue Line flag to fly alone in a hazy sky. The SCV might fly the flag, but we dont associate with them. Its lingering still out there.. McCluney, 53, is a national officer in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which accepts male descendants of southern soldiers. The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed. Politically correct groups seized that opportunity to make it seem like that flag came down that pole, walked down into that church and killed those people, he says. College students who supported Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign in 1948 waved Confederate flags at campaign events. I go to see and share the bitter end , I have ever held the South were right. More than any individual actor, in recent history, Roof honored his flag in exactly the manner it always demandedwith human sacrifice. The streets were filled with the opaque greenish mist of chemical weaponry, hanging in stinging clouds that made residents in neighboring apartments cough. By the time Mississippi embedded it into its new state flag in 1894, the flag was used to both honor the Confederate dead as well as a romanticized version of the wars purpose. As the practice waned up north, white men rushed to the south, bringing slaves. SCV was created in 1896 for the vindication of the cause for which we fought and to ensure that a true history of the 1861-1865 period is preserved. SCV members worked with the United Confederate Veterans and other groups in the early 20th century to demand school textbooks supporting the revisionist view that the south fought for a just lost cause that was decidedly not slavery. Similarly, alarge proportion of Republicans believe that the rioters who stormed the CapitolonJan. 6 were "patriots" whose use of violence was justified. Be, who discusses the flag respectfully with friends who like it, challenges Massey, Hentz and others to probe deeper. The Klan is different from us. God judge me, not man. The flag was based on the saltire, a common flag symbol sometimes called the Southern cross. Narcissistic symbiosis refers to the developmental wounds that make the leader-follower relationship magnetically attractive. The German armed forces, for example, flew a modified version of the much older Imperial Reich war flag. 0:57. "In the first phase, tension builds and a . Removing it requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature. Ongoing inequities, Be reminds, are bolstered by a kinder, gentler version of Confederate history rewritten after the south lost the civil war and its rights to maintain and extend slavery. Petite Roslyn Stuart is behind the counter with a swagger like she has seen it all more than once. Property crime investigations altogether have an abysmal 17 percent clearance rate. But black newspapers didn't buy it: "Have we so soon forgot what the Confederate flag represents?" The systemic problem remains. t was 1957 when little Lindy Lubys great-uncle showed up at her house near Benton. Retired military, Barnes used to attend all the Ole Miss college football games, but he now watches on TV. The night was solemn; speakers at marches coast to coast acknowledged the heavy toll a single rare verdict of a police officer found guilty of murder had taken. Everyone should have the right to purchase and display symbols for themselves on private property, but [not force the flag to] represent all citizens of any particular community, Johnson says, because they dont. ", merits lengthy quotation: It didn't take long to find hundreds of videos where these Trumpers and so-called patriots were hanging black American flags. Its chemical weapons are banned from theaters of war but available for promiscuous use among the populace. I am going to start researching this, she adds about the history as Kate calls for her. She supports Mississippians right to keep it as is. On a daily basis Fox News and other elements of the right-wing disinformation propaganda machine use, In one troubling new development, Trump supporters have begun flying all-blackAmerican flags, in an implicit threat to harm or kill their opponents meaning nonwhite people, "socialist liberals," Muslims, vaccinated peopleand others deemed to be "enemies" of"real America." Yet, Heaven knows, no one would be willing to do more for the negro race than I, could I but see a way to still better their condition. The room is a shrine to the Confederacy with a rebel-flag-themed cushion, curtains and even a mousepad. The phrase "the thin blue line" is older, perhaps first popularized in 1922 by New York City police Commissioner Richard Enright, who used the phrase to describe police as . Correction: An earlier version of this article said Alabama's state flag includes the Confederate flag. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. All hope for peace is dead. Pipes fill a glass case, and we avoid the curtained adult room. In a recent speech tothe North Carolina Faith and Freedom Coalition's "Salt & Light" conference, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.,issued what sounded like a declaration of war: It is time for the American Christian church to come out of the shadows to say, "No longer are we going to allow our culture to be determined by people who hate the things that we believe in. God's will be done. He is right, but only to a point. He wrote the chancellor that he would never buy another ticket after the game ban of the rebel flag. Come on over! Joe Barnes booms, describing his nearby Seminary home as the one with the US, Confederate and Mississippi flags out front, after I tell him Roslyn sent us. And the new story was more flattering to the South. There are plenty of big bangs in "Flags of Our Fathers," but because . As a white woman who still flies the flag in a historically black South Carolina neighborhood put it, it's about "family history.". Trump's rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge and specifically of "getting even" with Trump's"enemies.". In response, the Ku Klux Klan surged. They are the opposite of the white flag of surrender. It means they will execute their enemies. So, we're the enemy, and they're openly professing to want to execute us. The police kill a man or a woman; or a teenage girl, in the case of 16-year-old MaKhia Bryant, who was fatally shot by an officer near her home in Columbus, Ohio, shortly before the Chauvin verdict was delivered; or a child, as in the case of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, shot with his hands up in Chicago last month. But slavery was waning, McCluney insists, and the north should have let it fade naturally. The flag, which has gone on to earn its creators company, Thin Blue Line USA, a healthy living selling related merchandise, literalizes this vision: a U.S. flag in a stark photonegative scheme, save for a broad line of blue. Asmediacritic Eric Boehlertrecently noted,the liberal opinion site Living Blue in Texas is sounding the alarm about the specific meaning of the black flag and the Republican-fascistssupport for terrorism and other political violence. The 1860 census shows 49% of families in Mississippi one in two owned at least one slave. For four years have I waited, hoped and prayed for the dark clouds to break, and for a restoration of our former sunshine. Millions turn to Vox to educate themselves, their family, and their friends about whats happening in the world around them, and to learn about things that spark their curiosity. She grew up in Red Bay, Alabama, in a former slave region that the last census showed as 93% white and 1% black. The leader, hungry for adulation to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth, projects grandiose omnipotence while the followers, rendered needy by societal stress or developmental injury, yearn for a parental figure. A new specialty of climate cardiology is needed to tackle the many links between climate change and cardiovascular health and simultaneously protect patients and the future of the planet, say experts in the open access journal BMJ Global . For this chosen group, violence is the answer. "If displaying the flag of the Confederate States of America is a fad, it is one of the longest-lived fads in history, lasting some 90 years," one sniffed in a letter to Life. Ira Isonhood, 71, remembers his father inviting black people to sit in his yard to watch a basketball game through the window when he got the areas first television a progressive move in the mid-20th century south. In the early 1950s, stock car racers, Southern universities, and social groups embraced the Confederate flag, Coski wrote in his book. That the Confederate flag is the symbol of of white supremacists is evidenced by the very words of those who birthed it: Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. The Confederate flag represents pride in the face of poverty to Massey, who came to Mississippi in 2001, the same year voters decided against changing the state flag. Its a piece of our heritage that should be left there to honor sacrifices, Davis says in a cozy parlor, adding that most soldiers were dirt-poor farmers with no slaves. Ira Isonhood adjusts the flag pole in the backyard of his home in Copiah County, Mississippi. It's an old truismthatthe "real bad men" (and bad women) "move in silence and violence." Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. For those who embrace violence, the ability to see those that embrace evil comes through as clear as a beautiful desert sky after that rare torrential downpour. As the country prepared to hear the verdict in the Chauvin trial, more police armies massed in American cities. Move forward. The history teacher could handle it if the state flag changed, though. "We are not the worlds police;" "The standards of conduct are different in the Middle, This is an excerpt from Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger. Its not whites that are the racists; its mostly the blacks What it boils down to is black people are just trying to overrule us.. Is it their feelings? Until that kid went in that church in Charleston, people never thought anything about the Confederate or Mississippi flag, she says. The debate reignited in 2015 after Dylann Roof killed nine black people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Ultimately, Donald Trump, like other fascist and authoritarian leaders, is, ------------------------------------------, Trump's rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge, stochastic terrorism and other techniques to radicalize their audience into committing acts of political violence, theDemocratic Party and the political and news media classin general have remained in denial, and largely passive in response, "Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning on Killing You? So, I say to you again, simply I would bring fear and death to them all!. Its hoisting marked the end of a night of violently suppressed protests of the killing of the 20-year-old, a young Black father who had been pulled over, his mother said, because police had seen air fresheners dangling from his rearview mirror and had been shot in the chest by veteran Officer Kim Potter, former president of the citys police union. We are going to stand valiantlyfor God's incredible inherent truths that predate any version of government. Moral cowardice requires choice and action. Demands for change in American policing have outstripped the 2010s ethos of reform, which for years involved providing more and more resources to bloated police departments: for training that has proved ineffective, body cameras that can and do serve as aids in crafting meretricious narratives, for consent decrees in cities with particularly egregious police regimes that wind up protecting departments more than curbing their atrocities. This country was formed for the white, not for the black man. As, However you interpret these videos posted byTrump followers and otherneofascists which couldbe mainly performative , And a new poll from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics even suggests that, During an interview withMSNBC'sJoy Reid,terrorism and national security expert Malcolm Nance said that Cawthorn's video"picks up on the themes that are not just coming from the Steve Bannon level and Donald Trump level, they are coming from theRepublican street and that Republican street is armed. Here is another choice. Coski records the Afro-American, a nationally prominent black newspaper, as asking. As historian John Coski writes in The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem, Southerners weren't shy about enlisting the design in the cause of white supremacy. Mississippi has bent over backwards to say Im sorry. (Kean Collection via Getty Images). The writer Patrick Wyman has hypothesized that the flagrancy of police violence against protesters is part of a strategy of exemplary violence, akin to the outsize and grotesque revenges inflicted on participants in medieval peasants rebellions. Many people were taught certain things.. And make no mistake: the GOP has become the party of political violence. Embrace violence. Bryan Myers, the same author who brought you An Open Letter to the Political Leadership of America, a hard-hitting evisceration of the fecklessness of our political leaders that went viral in recent weeks, now tells us what should be done about it. They declare a "safe space," prohibit firearms and welcome people who . In fact, if the originalhost dies, he or she can beelevated to the status ofmartyr for "the cause,"serving to inspireexisting followers and lure in new ones. Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6. Embrace Violence. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. In his attic, McCluney downplays slavery ownership saying elite planters, not soldiers, owned most slaves. Inscribe beneath it the years 1861-2015. The Havok Journal is a participant in the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for sites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com. Its not us thats racial; its them thats racial. And a new poll from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics even suggests that more than 50 percent of Trump supporters want "red states" to secede from the Union. Massey, who identifies as more Blackfoot-Cherokee than white, isnt interested in military history, saying the flag celebrates her heritage as a southerner, period. The flags history is fraught and complicated, as was the bloody civil war that erupted in 1861 between the US south where Americas slave trade had relocated and expanded by the mid-1800s and the north. , a common flag symbol sometimes called the Southern cross. On a daily basis Fox News and other elements of the right-wing disinformation propaganda machine use stochastic terrorism and other techniques to radicalize their audience into committing acts of political violence. To many white people in the south and beyond, the Confederate flag is a sign of historic pride and defiance to whatever is currently called liberalism; to most black Americans, the flag stands for white supremacy and racial violence. Get notified when we re-open our online store. from the Confederacy's vice president that declared the Confederacy's cornerstone "rests upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition"). Dont ever allow your wife to sign Mrs again! he warned. Less-lethal munitions, which can blind and mutilate, stutter through the nighttime streets. Flag Heads specializes in Confederate flag-themed merchandise in Seminary, Mississippi. They understand that after all else fails and evil overwhelms the powers of the pen, it is they that will be called upon. "Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. Men who would rather dance with the devil in the valley of the shadow of death than sit at a Starbucks, sipping a $10 coffee while contemplating whether their skinny jeans are adequately squeezing all available testosterone into their systems in hope of fulfilling their latest desire of obtaining a beard. During an interview with Scientific American magazine, Dr. Bandy Lee, the principal editor of the 2017 bestseller"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," explained how a mentally pathological leader can "infect"hisfollowers and perhaps even an entire nation: I have outlined two major emotional drives: narcissistic symbiosis and shared psychosis. Gentlemanly Kevin Davis is surprised when we show up at his large white antebellum-style house in Simpson County. By the mid-20th century, the flag symbolized white resistance to ending segregation laws. Yes, he was. The two single mothers finish each others sentences, laughing about that time Hentz went into labor where they worked and Massey put her in an office chair to wheel her downstairs to go to the hospital. In her speech this week calling for state legislators to remove the flag from the statehouse grounds, Gov. After last week's racially motivated slaying of nine African Americans in a South Carolina church, the flag has become a target for those who consider it a symbol of hatred, a strident reminder. . In fact, police violence by Minneapolis law enforcement increased substantially following the 2020 murder of Floyd. To wait longer would be a crime. By the time Mississippi embedded it into its new state flag in. When the white supremacist John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago, Booths fellow travelers, of the Great Emancipator was deplorable. Jefferson Davis, that it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune to the South, and angrily denied rumors that he had, The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? But that reverence now stops at the capitol grounds. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIt's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. Trumpism is not actually the core disease. Surely the flags defenders will proffer other, muddier, interpretations which allow them the luxury of looking away. The National Guard was brought in. The Confederate flags defenders often claim it represents heritage not hate. I agreethe heritage of white supremacy was not so much birthed by hate as by the impulse toward plunder. Just a point of history Prior to Roofs massacre, the South Carolina NAACP had waged a 15-year boycott against the state for its [Confederate] flag display, Johnson says. What matters is this, they will fear the sword and the bearded ones wielding it. And I was one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Mississippi in 1993 to have the flag taken down. The SCV intervened in that lawsuit and won. SteveBannon, Trump's former campaign chairman and White House strategist, has now threatened to recruit Republican-fascist "shock troops" with the apparent goal of underminingthe U.S. government, and by implication multiracial democracy, if and when Trump and the Republicans regaincontrol of both Congress andthe White House. ", Somewhat puzzlingly, in the same report that featured the anti-Truman flag buyer in New Jersey, Life wrote off the flag's popularity as a fad. Davis no relation to Jeff has taught history in public and private schools, and also turned out to be an SCV member. Please enter a valid email and try again. We try to help people.. News of another police killing hits before the grieving family has concluded their press conference, and the cycle begins again, until it breaks, or we do. It's alarming because there is probably an equal number of guys on there talking about the civil war plans and actively using Tik Tok to recruit these military and ex-military members. The Confederate flag controversy: What does the flag mean today? But while white Southern women were draping the flags on the gravestones of the fallen in the early years of Reconstruction, Coski writes, an armed militia of white supremacists in South Carolina was marching with the Confederate battle flag to threaten black residents. Witness heretofore our wealth and power; witness their elevation and enlightenment above their race elsewhere. A State Capitol Police Officer in Connecticut donated a handcrafted wood rendering of the Thin Blue Line flag for display at the State Capitol. 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