So, why are they doing this. I have struggled. As recently as 2011, Haley dismissed concerns about the flag, saying she thought the state had moved on. I dont think the black people around here care, Lindy says. Ira Isonhood adjusts the flag pole in the backyard of his home in Copiah County, Mississippi. The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. 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. And luckily for all of the others, it is! 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. newsletter. You know, Democrats, Liberals, LGBTQ, BIPOC, and the vaccinated. Black American flags are the flags that mean "no quarter shall be given." As a white woman who still . The friends reject being offended over what Hentz calls just a piece of cloth. 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. 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. Most of the soldiers were young a fifth were under 18 and few owned any of the 4 million slaves in the US. Protesters hold up umbrellas and American flags in the face of advancing riot police in the district of Yuen Long on July 27, 2019, in Hong Kong (Laurel Chor/Getty Images). 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. For be my motive good or bad, of one thing I am sure, the lasting condemnation of the North. 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. Google Pay. But it's not a coincidence that white Southerners were embracing the Confederate battle flag just as the South's system of violently enforced white supremacy was under its first real threat since Reconstruction. Davis, 47, also believes the institution might have died out due to modernization if they were able to compromise another 20 years. 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. South Carolina Gov. 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. By 1861, the south was demanding slavery expansion into western territories, which Lincolns Black Republicans adamantly opposed. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and culture, s time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. An alarming number of military members have been making Tik Toks talking about how they are being discharged because they refuse the vaccine. A minute number of people ever stop to think about the circumstances that surround the very freedoms they spend the majority of their lives enjoying. 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. The SCV might fly the flag, but we dont associate with them. The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed. The very same people that exploit the working class for cheap labor and create systems to undermine their development through poor education systems use issues of racial division to maintain economic control, the NAACP president says. Move forward. The SCV is correct, though, that Lincoln did not initially call for emancipation. For four years have I waited, hoped and prayed for the dark clouds to break, and for a restoration of our former sunshine. It turned into one big heckuva mess. The room is a shrine to the Confederacy with a rebel-flag-themed cushion, curtains and even a mousepad. But one mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. The only thing that has changed is how the rest of the country sees the cause it represents. When her husband came later, the storekeeper admonished him in front of young Ira. Like other vestiges of the Confederacy, the flag outlived the Civil War. When it was taken down from the Capitol dome, some flag supporters chanted, "Off the dome and in your face.". A State Capitol Police Officer in Connecticut donated a handcrafted wood rendering of the Thin Blue Line flag for display at the State Capitol. Have loved the Union beyond expression. Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. Embrace Violence. 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." It was there when our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, were struggling to feed their six, eight, 10 kids. 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. His father sent a note back with no groceries. Across the U.S., a militarized police force and the National Guard prepared to do what they had done so often in the face of ongoing uprisings against police violence: They prepared to brutalize their critics with every weapon they had. Here is what I had to say about ISIS back in July 2014: Id bring fear and death to them all! This group understands that not all people can be negotiated with and at then end of the day, human nature is primal. 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. The infamous tree, used for lynching, was bending over a bridge on Highway 433 toward Lexington. Ive been there for her, Massey, the childs godmother, says. All hope for peace is dead. Look at whats happening to our statues! he says. 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? Ira is in the backyard posing for pictures in front of his Confederate flag. 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 use of the flag is the crux of the "heritage, not hate" argument: that the Confederate flag is simply about honoring the South's past, its dead, and its culture. In fact, Frederick Douglass called Lincoln preeminently the white mans president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men.. 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. Men that live outside the illusion of safety built upon walls of ignorance and denial that is our peaceful existence in this world. The debate reignited in 2015 after Dylann Roof killed nine black people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Is it their feelings? April 21, 202111:12. 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. 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. The flag not gon change the hate., Stuart blames detractors. (Today, its supporters say the KKK co-opted it.). But he was still a product of his time. But slavery was waning, McCluney insists, and the north should have let it fade naturally. Eventually, they will take the state flag; they will change it. 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. 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. After the north won, it imposed a harsh Reconstruction on the south that still fuels white resentment today. She supports Mississippians right to keep it as is. 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. Reader support helps us keep our explainers free for all. Moving it or removing it requires a two-thirds majority vote. Their mentality is flag-draped, all noblesse oblige and wounded besiegement, but their actions are those of armies accountable only to their own leadership. Similarly, alarge proportion of Republicans believe that the rioters who stormed the CapitolonJan. 6 were "patriots" whose use of violence was justified. Joe Barnes gets into the truck at his home in Seminary, Mississippi. Related Topics Police continue to operate under layers of legal impunity and institutional protections. The biggest message they have been sending out is, "it's time" or "the time is now." They are not the same thing. 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.. 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. 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. Why are these minorities pushing to do away with this flag? The post-war white south embraced the Confederate battle flag, making it their sentimental symbol of the lost cause of the war. "In the first phase, tension builds and a . 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. 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. Dont ever allow your wife to sign Mrs again! he warned. 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. Whats next? Chauncey DeVega is a senior politics writer for Salon. You can also contribute via. Coski records the Afro-American, a nationally prominent black newspaper, as asking. 0:57. Embrace Violence. ", 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. 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. Support our mission, and make a gift today. Witness heretofore our wealth and power; witness their elevation and enlightenment above their race elsewhere. The flag's stubborn hold on the state isn't just the result of an ironclad compromise that makes it all but impossible to take down. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. The systemic problem remains. You feel I boast of impossibilities due to ego and arrogance. College students who supported Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign in 1948 waved Confederate flags at campaign events. That was horrific to my organization (SCV) when that took place.. 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. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. They understand that after all else fails and evil overwhelms the powers of the pen, it is they that will be called upon. Made in the USA . I go to see and share the bitter end , I have ever held the South were right. The Confederate flag was adopted to represent a short-lived rebellion to extend and protect white supremacy and black slavery. Youre not bad with money. Nikki Haley said Monday that it was time South Carolina removed the Confederate battle flag from its state capitol grounds, in the aftermath of a shooting that killednine people at a Bible study at the historic Emanuel AME Church in Charleston. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? 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. But black newspapers didn't buy it: "Have we so soon forgot what the Confederate flag represents?" After driving north along the lonely stretch of Highway 49 through Delta plantation lands, we end up in Larry McCluney Jrs attic in Greenwood. 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. 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. While it includes the saltire, or Southern Cross, it never included the full battle flag. Both Rousseau, as the Texas leader, and Dillon Hopper (aka Dillon Irizarry), as the group's . Rather than thinking that they ought to be chastened by being caught on tape beating, tear-gassing, and pepper-spraying protesters, perhaps doing all this in full view of the public is the point, Wyman wrote in a column addressing the war scenes in American streets surrounding the initial wave of Floyd protests. 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. https://t.co/TVeEIOFoo1 pic.twitter.com/zuOU7HJ87S. Were not a violent organization. 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. Who are their enemies? The post-war white south embraced the Confederate battle flag, making it their sentimental symbol of the "lost cause" of the war. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. 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. Fascism is not asimple machine with an on-and-off switch. Larry McCluney Jrs home office. Please enter a valid email and try again. For 75 years, it was used as a reminder of the nobility of that cause. Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6. Sign up to receive email updates daily and to hear what's going on with us! Their God, our God, it doesnt matter. 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. The Confederate flag stands for bloodshed and segregation.". Lindy and Ira Isonhood walk along Deer Hollow, their property in Copiah County, Mississippi. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. A photo of the man wearing the sweatshirt was just one of the images of hateful symbols that have circulated from the mob, whose violence led to four deaths and wreaked havoc on Congress. This country was formed for the white, not for the black man. 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