Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6. The Confederate flag stands for rebellion and treachery. The closet is packed with battle re-enactment costumes and weapon replicas. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Roslyn Stuart is an employee at Flag Heads in Seminary, Mississippi. Joe Barnes gets into the truck at his home in Seminary, Mississippi. Thomasa Massey and Evangela Hentz are close friends in Brandon, Mississippi. 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. In the 1960's civil rights movement, division existed between black leaders who sought to use peaceful protest to effect change (most notably pastor Martin Luther King, Jr.) and those, like the. Photograph: Kate Medley, Pride and prejudice? Oops. It was not an unusual number of new cases for the department's eight-member gun violence restraining order unit, which Brooker oversees. The Confederate flag stands for bloodshed and segregation.". 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. I just had to go cut a black boy down off that hanging tree and take him to his mama.. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIt's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. Despite decades of efforts to renovate history, Mississippis Declaration of Secession still begins by clarifying that the state left the union in 1861 for a cause thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery, adding for posterity that none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun that enables cotton to flourish. The LAPD was left to rack up overtime in an abundance of caution. The NYPD tailed protesters fruitlessly across bridges and through parks. The Confederate flag controversy: What does the flag mean today? Thirteen of his ancestors fought for the south, but most didnt own slaves. It goes like this: Police kill a person. All Ive heard is a downplaying and whitewashing of history in an attempt to gaslight its population.. In this way they honor their ancestors. That was horrific to my organization (SCV) when that took place.. An alarming number of military members have been making Tik Toks talking about how they are being discharged because they refuse the vaccine. As red flags show up more and more over time, you'll start noticing patterns of behavior. You wont find it at Wal*Mart, a large sign proclaims, reminding shoppers that the retailer dropped Confederate merchandise within a week of Roofs massacre. Police continue to operate under layers of legal impunity and institutional protections. Kek Flags Supporters of President Trump storm the United States Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington DC. Many people were taught certain things.. The Havok Journal welcomes re-posting of our original content as long as it is done in compliance with our Terms of Use. I have lived among it most of my life, and have seen less harsh treatment from master to man than I have beheld in the North from father to son. The Klan is different from us. 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 common flag symbol sometimes called the Southern cross. 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 . Effie, its just been a bad day, the lawman said to his sister, as the six-year-old listened. 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. You know, Democrats, Liberals, LGBTQ, BIPOC, and the vaccinated. College students who supported Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign in 1948 waved Confederate flags at campaign events. "The hate-filled murderer who massacred our brothers and sisters in Charleston has a sick and twisted view of the flag, Haley said. It's an old truismthatthe "real bad men" (and bad women) "move in silence and violence." So, why are they doing this. 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. 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. The SCV is correct, though, that Lincoln did not initially call for emancipation. Its not about hatred. He adds that blacks fought for the south, too. 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. To others, its a trendy phrase you most likely associate with the new age mentality brought on by the latest Mixed Martial Arts fighting rage to sweep the country. Hentz, 41, is from Missouri, once a violent slave state, but calls the flag just an inanimate object, adding: Stop letting it control you.. A Confederate flag at an anti-integration rally in Little Rock in 1959. It was poor white southerners who fought in these battles, being strung along by rich, property-owning whites who banked on the ignorance and arrogance of the poor whites to fight and die in the war, Be says. And the new story was more flattering to the South. Its message had just become less respectable. 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. Trump's rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge and specifically of "getting even" with Trump's"enemies.". Learn more. The third was discarded because the white got dirty easily and could resemble a flag of surrender. More than any individual actor, in recent history, Roof honored his flag in exactly the manner it always demandedwith human sacrifice. Signs set the tone at the Embrace help centers and shelter for victims of domestic and sexual violence in rural Wisconsin. 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. Neither Ira nor Lindy has asked black acquaintances why the flag is offensive, or asked why many believe it belongs in museums, but not part of a state emblem. Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. (Kean Collection via Getty Images). 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. The store slogan is You wont find it at Wal-Mart.. 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. 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. The same Georgia state legislature that considered closing the state's schools rather than integrating them also changed the state flag to include the Confederate symbol. Abandon this charlatanism. Cries for forgiveness and moans of helplessness will fill their dwellings. I would be sad about it, not violently upset. 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 September,. IE 11 is not supported. Embrace equity. Two supporters are seen wearing orholding Kek Flags, an alt-right symbol. To this point, theDemocratic Party and the political and news media classin general have remained in denial, and largely passive in response. "Family history" only became a plausible rationale because of a devil's bargain. The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed. And luckily for all of the others, it is! They understand that after all else fails and evil overwhelms the powers of the pen, it is they that will be called upon. Please enter a valid email and try again. The current cycle of protests is a grotesque and familiar protocol, shaped over the past years since the killing of Michael Brown in 2014. In a protest against police violence, police are counterprotesters, and it is first and foremost the police who riot, engaging in orgies of violence against their perceived enemies. ", 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. Their God, our God, it doesnt matter. Embrace violence. Then it became a symbol of resistance to black civil rights leaders and to the federal government that was finally trying to enforce the law of the land. 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. 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. (Today, its supporters say the KKK co-opted it.). 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 that intensive battle line, the first line of defense against criminality., By the 1980s, the phrase had gone fully mainstream, propped up by a symbiotic relationship between increasingly powerful urban police departments and sympathetic media; in Errol Morris 1988 film of the same name, a judge told the camera that police were the thin blue line that separates the public from anarchy.. Ultimately, Donald Trump, like other fascist and authoritarian leaders, is the symptom of a sick society. As a white woman who still . 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. For four years have I waited, hoped and prayed for the dark clouds to break, and for a restoration of our former sunshine. By the civil war, cotton investment had made New York City the countrys financial center due to receiving up to 40% of all cotton revenues, representing $200m in annual trade with the south. That's certainlytrue for the most dangerous and most effective of Donald Trump's allies, henchmen, henchwomen,and other followers. Editors Note: Potter was the president of the local police union . In her speech this week calling for state legislators to remove the flag from the statehouse grounds, Gov. Reporting by Jack Goodman, Christopher Giles, Olga Robinson and Shayan Sardarizadeh. One mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. Then Johnson turns to Roof: All of the views and racial hatred symbols that informed his opinion walked into that church with him. 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. Fascism is a highly virulent social disease that usually destroys the host body but not before spreading the disease to many other people. For America to counteract the deep underlying illness that has made Trumpism possiblewill require a long-term cultural and moral reckoning. 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. It still holds true today. 0:57. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. History teaches us that if we dont, someone else will. Violence is Golden by Jack Donovan, Most will see the above admonition and others like it and automatically relate it to the malevolence of those who wish to do nothing more than tear this world apart. A little more than a week before the jury delivered its verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, and about 10 miles from the Hennepin County Government Center where Chauvin sat on trial, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was fatally shot by an officer during a traffic stop. His father sent a note back with no groceries. His own ancestors sacrifice is paramount. 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. That is not hate, nor is it racism.". In an average week, they triage 30 referrals from local police, reviewing scenarios in which officers believe a resident is at risk of committing gun violence. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Swastikas and Confederate flags were among the overt hate signs that the insurrection brought into the Capitol. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. It turned into one big heckuva mess. Add to cart Add to WatchlistUnwatch Watch list is full By the morning, protesters with signs and chants had dispersed, leaving the Thin Blue Line flag to fly alone in a hazy sky. I am going to start researching this, she adds about the history as Kate calls for her. By the mid-20th century, the flag symbolized white resistance to ending segregation laws. The law requires the flag to be hoisted 30 feet from the ground, illuminated at night, and surrounded by "an appropriate decorative iron fence." antisocial and other anti-human behavior on a national scale. "In the first phase, tension builds and a . It demands that its adherents repeatedly look away, that they favor the fanciful over the plain, myth over history, the dream over the real. The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. Still, Davis balks at the need to exorcise the emblem from the state flag today out of respect to Mississippians who descended from slaves. Similarly, alarge proportion of Republicans believe that the rioters who stormed the CapitolonJan. 6 were "patriots" whose use of violence was justified. Other slogans on flags, clothing or signs . Removing it requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature. When Southern states gave the flags pride of place in their capitols, it was to signal support for segregation. So, I say to you again, simply I would bring fear and death to them all!. Cowardice, too, is heritage. But slavery was waning, McCluney insists, and the north should have let it fade naturally. According to the people on TikTok and the Sun (British tabloid), the . Our ancestors fought under that flag, Barnes says. Moving it or removing it requires a two-thirds majority vote. He is right, but only to a point. (True, but usually for their masters. Save your lovely souls. The SCV might fly the flag, but we dont associate with them. Im a pointblank person. If you can put a rebel flag on it, they do: beach towels, BBQ aprons, windshield dice, coasters, flip-flops, polar fleeces, bikinis, umbrellas and more. I love peace more than life. Heres the data on Minneapolis police use of force per week since 2017. 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. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. Lindy, now 66, has shifted her stance on the death penalty. God's will be done. ''I don't believe [Confederate] service, however distinguished, needs to be commemorated in a way that offends, that deeply hurts, people whose ancestors were once denied their freedom by my ancestors,'' McCain said. Yet the Confederate battle flagthe flag of Dylann Roofstill flies on the Capitol grounds in Columbia. "It is becoming the symbol of the white race and the cause of the white people. God judge me, not man. Fascism is a highly virulent social disease that usually destroys the host body but not before spreading the disease to many other people. After she sat on a jury that condemned a man to death, she now campaigns for alternatives to execution and stars in a new documentary about her experience. 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. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? My family, we were poor. Not the main stream core freedoms that our country was founded on, rather the diminutive pieces of thread that weave together to form the very fabric that holds our great nation together. Expect more of it.. It flew for all colors, black, white, whatever, she says. A photo soon emerged of him holding a Confederate flag. While it includes the saltire, or Southern Cross, it never included the full battle flag. 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. Look at whats happening to our statues! he says. Nonetheless, the police continue to operate under layers of legal impunity and institutional protection that vastly overshadow the rights of the citizens they brutalize, murder or assault. Sign up to receive email updates daily and to hear what's going on with us! Shes helped me. But many of their households owned at least one, or they aspired to ascend to slave ownership. Most Confederacy fans may cherry-pick their sides history, but many are more precise about the chinks in the Yankees armor including that not everyone up north was hip to slavery ending, either. Haley nodded to supporters of the flag in her speech, saying that for many, the flag was "a way to honor ancestors who came to the service of their state during the time of conflict. They release a curt statement in grammar designed to deflect responsibility (officer-involved shooting; incident). We are going to stand valiantlyfor God's incredible inherent truths that predate any version of government. Here is what I had to say about ISIS back in July 2014: Id bring fear and death to them all! 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 . Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIts time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. But, unfortunately, many of them also live in states where masks and vaccines are required by state governments, healthcare, and law enforcement. Embrace Violence. Each day passing as the last, each day taken for granted with little to no thought about how fortunate they really are for having in their lives, those that embrace violence. Her friend Evangela Hentz, who is black, opens the passenger door, and we all run through the rain to a pavilion. After the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, white Southerners used the Confederate flag to intimidate civil rights activists and demonstrate states' willingness to protect segregation at all costs. Ira Isonhood adjusts the flag pole in the backyard of his home in Copiah County, Mississippi. In the early 1950s, stock car racers, Southern universities, and social groups embraced the Confederate flag, Coski wrote in his book. The flag no longer represented just a 19th-century battle to preserve white supremacy, but a 20th-century one as well. He did not violate some implicit rule of Confederate chivalry or politesse. Chauncey can be followed onTwitterandFacebook. I dont think the black people around here care, Lindy says. Pipes fill a glass case, and we avoid the curtained adult room. When a highly symptomatic individual is placed in an influential position, the person's symptoms can spread through the population through emotional bonds, heightening existing pathologies and inducing delusions, paranoia and propensity for violence even in previously healthy individuals. 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. To me, the flag is not a racist thing. NFQ Embrace Violence Flag NFQ Embrace Violence Flag Item Information Condition: New without tagsNew without tags Price: US $25.00 NFQ Embrace Violence Flag Sign in to check outCheck out as guest Adding to your cart The item you've selected was not added to your cart. 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