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. I for one, have ever considered if one of the greatest blessings (both for themselves and us,) that God has ever bestowed upon a favored nation. As the country prepared to hear the verdict in the Chauvin trial, more police armies massed in American cities. The force is organized with military precision and often military equipment. Trump and his regimegave permission and encouragement to his followers and other supporters to engage in antisocial and other anti-human behavior on a national scale. After I mention that Mississippi outlawed freeing slaves in 1857, he said that the south wouldnt have seceded if the federal government had allowed (white, male) voters to decide slavery per state or territory. They have been fed an entire line which makes them believe that America is no longerAmerica and thatthey no longer want the America that the rest of us, the 60 percent of the country, live in. In April 2001, Mississippians voted along race lines to keep the flag as it was. It's a symbol of how successfully the Civil War has been misremembered so that "heritage" and "hate" could be disentangled from each other. The Christian flag? she asks. Flags of Our Fathers Directed by Clint EastwoodStarring: Ryan Phillippe (John Bradley), Jesse Bradford (Rene Gagnon), Adam Beach (Ira Hayes), John Benjamin Hickey (Keyes Beech), John Slattery (Bud Gurber), Barry Pepper (Mike Strank), Jamie Bell (Ralph Ignatowski), Paul Walker (Hank Hansen) and Robert Patrick (Colonel Chandler Johnson).Running . It demands that its adherents repeatedly look away, that they favor the fanciful over the plain, myth over history, the dream over the real. And make no mistake: the GOP has become the party of political violence. An alarming number of military members have been making Tik Toks talking about how they are being discharged because they refuse the vaccine. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIts time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. A New York Timeseditorial published two days after four girls were killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church claimed segregationists were committing "desecration" of the Confederate symbol. Studies have shown that police dont solve most violent crimes. The flag even became popular in the North: a man purchasing the flag in New Jersey told Life he was doing it to oppose Truman. Embrace equity. The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed. ", it is clearly true that the Americanright isincreasingly willing to accept or condoneviolence as a means of expanding and protecting their social and political power, more than 50 percent of Trump supporters want "red states" to secede from the Union, During an interview with Scientific American magazine, Dr. Bandy Lee, the principal editor of the 2017 bestseller"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," explained. The group split from Vanguard America (VA) in late August 2017, several months after VA participated in a white supremacist rally on the capitol steps in Austin, Texas. History teaches us that if we don't, someone else will." Abandon this charlatanism. I would not be up around the last flag making a chain gang to keep somebody from taking it down, Davis says. They believe that Joe Biden has declared a civil war on them by mandating that employers with over 100 employees and the military have vaccinations. The biggest message they have been sending out is, "it's time" or "the time is now." The friends reject being offended over what Hentz calls just a piece of cloth. It is a way of life. Most (southerners) did not have a dog in the hunt, he says. , a common flag symbol sometimes called the Southern cross. Three died in battle, and one in a makeshift hospital in the Lyceum at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi one of numerous buildings built by slaves. The Confederate flag stands for bloodshed and segregation.". The flag was moved from the Capitol dome to the most prominent spot on the Capitol grounds, near a monument to Confederate soldiers. Dont ever allow your wife to sign Mrs again! he warned. They understand that after all else fails and evil overwhelms the powers of the pen, it is they that will be called upon. The LAPD was left to rack up overtime in an abundance of caution. The NYPD tailed protesters fruitlessly across bridges and through parks. 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 . 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 . Ive been there for her, Massey, the childs godmother, says. Although showing guns on Tik Tok is supposed to be against community guidelines, they show lots of videos of their guns, shooting them, wearing them, or sitting on their bed. According to the people on TikTok and the Sun (British tabloid), the . The Confederacy itself was founded to preserve slavery and promote white supremacy (see, for example, Mississippi's declaration of secession: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery the greatest material interest of the world," or the speech 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"). He did not violate some implicit rule of Confederate chivalry or politesse. I love peace more than life. because for those who embrace violence, the ones who chose to embrace evil share the same blood. It was there when our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, were struggling to feed their six, eight, 10 kids. 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. Watch: Crowd chants "na na na na hey hey hey goodbye" as the Confederate flag falls in SC, The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy and it always has, For now, the one thing Congress seems to agree upon is China, How the Israeli settler rampage was emboldened by the new far-right government, We dont need to know how this pandemic started to stop the next one, You probably wont get any student loan relief, thanks to a GOP-controlled Supreme Court, Ron DeSantiss war on woke in Florida schools, explained. Directed by Clint Eastwood; written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis, based on the book by James Bradley with Ron Powers; director of photography, Tom Stern; edited by Joel Cox; music by Mr.. Have loved the Union beyond expression. 661 likes. Narcissistic symbiosis refers to the developmental wounds that make the leader-follower relationship magnetically attractive. Insecure, frightened men (and the occasional woman) participating in fascist violence find a sense of agency, of individual power and meaning, a sort of orgasmic release from a life of ordinariness and political impotence. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. The store specializes in Confederate flag-themed merchandise. All rights reserved. We know about our family, their sacrifices, he says of his 20 ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. Once such a process has begun, and those forces are unleashed, it is not easy to stop. Its message had just become less respectable. Barnes has black friends, he says, and points out that African Americans use the N-word. Their God, our God, it doesnt matter. When such wounded individuals are given positions of power, they arouse similar pathology in the population that creates a "lock and key" relationship. Gretchen Whitmer called for in her State of the State address Wednesday include what is commonly known as a "red flag" law, providing for "extreme risk . It's how Mississippi and Florida could include the Confederate flag in their state flags during the 1890s with little fuss. Swastikas and Confederate flags were among the overt hate signs that the insurrection brought into the Capitol. I dont think the black people around here care, Lindy says. The flag no longer represented just a 19th-century battle to preserve white supremacy, but a 20th-century one as well. In this way they honor their ancestors. Agitated at the news that yet another armed agent of the state has killed a member of the public, protesters object. When crafting the compromise which made the flag more visible to visitors than it had been before legislators did their utmost to ensure the flag couldn't be pushed out any further. Other official flags were also displayed during the Nazi regime. Kevin Davis sits on the tailgate of his truck in Simpson County, Mississippi. The SCV might fly the flag, but we dont associate with them. All Rights Reserved. Sign up to receive email updates daily and to hear what's going on with us! In 2000, the legislature reached a compromise after 50,000 people marched to demand the flag be taken down and the NAACP declared a boycott. The only thing that has changed is how the rest of the country sees the cause it represents. It turned into one big heckuva mess. In the 2000 Republican primary, both George W. Bush and John McCain were asked what should be done about the flag. Embrace Violence. "Shared psychosis" which is also called "folie millions" ["madness for millions"] when occurring at the national level or "induced delusions" refers to the infectiousness of severe symptoms that goes beyond ordinary group psychology. Why are these minorities pushing to do away with this flag? "The hate-filled murderer who massacred our brothers and sisters in Charleston has a sick and twisted view of the flag, Haley said. Her sister would exchange clothes with a black friend, she says. In his attic, McCluney downplays slavery ownership saying elite planters, not soldiers, owned most slaves. In this way they honor their ancestors. When I had interviewed her about being in a white gang, I saw her defending the flag on Facebook. The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. They declare a "safe space," prohibit firearms and welcome people who . 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. Pretty much any non-Conservative. Dont ask if you dont want to know. But, he adds, they know me as a teacher who cares about them. The Confederacy itself was founded to preserve slavery and promote white supremacy (see, for example, : "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery the greatest material interest of the world," or the. But that reverence now stops at the capitol grounds. 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"). But I dont believe everyone who likes the flag is racist. Lindy and Ira Isonhood walk along Deer Hollow, their property in Copiah County, Mississippi. The Confederate flag played a big, big part in our history, Ira says. The Ku Klux Klan flew it at lynching parties and angry mobs waved it outside public schools as black children enrolled; in front of white segregation academies and next to leering dogs unleashed on black protesters wanting the right to vote. Other slogans on flags, clothing or signs . This group understands that not all people can be negotiated with and at then end of the day, human nature is primal. (Salon did not find licensed news photographs of these flags, and has made the editorial decision not to reproduce the images mentioned above, which are easy to find on social media.). They primarily use Tik Tok as a recruiting tool and let others know their willingness to commit violence. This notion is belied by any serious interrogation of the Civil War and the primary documents of its instigators. The flag not gon change the hate., Stuart blames detractors. The Confederate flag was adopted to represent a short-lived rebellion to extend and protect white supremacy and black slavery. Move forward. Fascism is a highly virulent social disease that usually destroys the host body but not before spreading the disease to many other people. A photo soon emerged of him holding a Confederate flag. But what the flag symbolized hadn't changed. And from the moment the design of its best-known flag was proposed, some Southerners began imbuing it with the symbolism of their cause. 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. It was not an unusual number of new cases for the department's eight-member gun violence restraining order unit, which Brooker oversees. Coski records the Afro-American, a nationally prominent black newspaper, as asking. 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. Its so we dont forget, he says. "Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. It's our duty to stand up, Let us stand united as men and women of faith to fight for our country. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. In the end, of course, Chauvin was found guilty on all three of his charges. We try to help people.. It was an historic moment for gay. https://t.co/TVeEIOFoo1 pic.twitter.com/zuOU7HJ87S. We just didnt believe in racism. Nobody, my whole town, she says. By 1865, the Civil War had morphed into a war against slaverythe cornerstone of Confederate society. The third was discarded because the white got dirty easily and could resemble a flag of surrender. I would be sad about it, not violently upset. In 1863, the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger wrote that the flag's Southern cross pointed to "the destiny of the Southern master and his African slave" the Confederacy's hoped-for expansion of slavery into Latin America. I have stuck my finger into a bullet hole in her family home where the Klan fired into the wall above where her aunt, then a child, slept. 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. Expect more of it.. In our world there lives a relativity small group of guardians who not only stand ready to do violence on the behalf of others, but actually wait anxiously for the opportunity. Pipes fill a glass case, and we avoid the curtained adult room. 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.. The SCV is correct, though, that Lincoln did not initially call for emancipation. 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. "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. By the morning, protesters with signs and chants had dispersed, leaving the Thin Blue Line flag to fly alone in a hazy sky. . The post-war white south embraced the Confederate battle flag, making it their sentimental symbol of the "lost cause" of the war. A New Jersey man bought a Confederate flag to oppose the Truman administration in 1951. that the flag's Southern cross pointed to "the destiny of the Southern master and his African slave" the Confederacy's hoped-for expansion of slavery into Latin America. One day, a black boy came to his dads store with a shopping list his mother had signed with Mrs. So, why are they doing this. Men that live outside the illusion of safety built upon walls of ignorance and denial that is our peaceful existence in this world. Moving it or removing it requires a two-thirds majority vote. 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. There are plenty of big bangs in "Flags of Our Fathers," but because . My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. Listen to the trailer for Holy Week. The Americans who fly the Confederate flag. 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. She grew up in Red Bay, Alabama, in a former slave region that the last census showed as 93% white and 1% black. On Sunday, at a rally in Colorado, Mr. Trump proudly held up a rainbow flag with the words "LGBT for Trump" written on it to a cheering crowd of thousands. The room is a shrine to the Confederacy with a rebel-flag-themed cushion, curtains and even a mousepad. It still holds true today. Theyre not afraid of being filmed, because being filmed simply reinforces the central theme: If you come to protest, an action that explicitly challenges the order and my place in it, this is the consequence. Robert E. Lees armies took special care to enslave free blacks during their Northern campaign. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Roslyn Stuart is an employee at Flag Heads in Seminary, Mississippi. In the interest of reuniting white Americans, the narrative around the Civil War changed in its aftermath. Thirteen of his ancestors fought for the south, but most didnt own slaves. Embrace Violence a movement dedicated to the Military Operators that embrace the reality of combat; continuing the fight. Whats next? How much more do we need to do?. Open a museum?, Ive never heard of an apology from the Klan in Franklin County for harassing and assaulting my family while flying that flag. Each week, we explore unique solutions to some of the world's biggest problems. Signs set the tone at the Embrace help centers and shelter for victims of domestic and sexual violence in rural Wisconsin. You think I speak lies and elaborations. 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. That week, a Thin Blue Line flag was raised defiantly above the Brooklyn Center Police Department building in Minnesota. Watch: The Charleston shooting is part of a long history of anti-black terrorism, The Supreme Court will decide if a whole federal agency is unconstitutional, Make Trump a non person: Rupert Murdochs Ron DeSantis pivot, explained by a legal filing, What rewatching old shows teaches us about ourselves, How the US can stick the landing, beat inflation, and avoid a recession. His essays can also be found atChaunceydevega.com. The flag was based on the saltire, a common flag symbol sometimes called the Southern cross. 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. The National Guard were deployed to Minneapolis, Chicago and Philadelphia. They operate as islands, their derision for the populace they purportedly protect on full display. Republican elected officials and other right-wing opinion leaders have continued to escalatetheir threats of political violence against Democrats and other targeted groups. For this chosen group, violence is the answer. If we cant get white people to stand together, its going to be another civil war, he adds. The treatment is removal of exposure. But the flag's meaning was never really innocuous. 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. Cowardice, too, is heritage. Embrace Violence. Its not us thats racial; its them thats racial. antisocial and other anti-human behavior on a national scale. Chauncey can be followed onTwitterandFacebook. The Isonhoods were the first stop of my May 2018 listening tour of Mississippi with photographer Kate Medley to ask flag supporters in our home state why they still support a symbol that represents so much pain, division and difficult history even as they urge black Americans to get over their resistance to it. By the time Mississippi embedded it into its new state flag in. (True, but usually for their masters. Photograph: Kate Medley, Pride and prejudice? The infamous tree, used for lynching, was bending over a bridge on Highway 433 toward Lexington. Yet the Confederate battle flagthe flag of Dylann Roofstill flies on the Capitol grounds in Columbia. 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