His favorite Mississippi history book is from 1900. One day, a black boy came to his dads store with a shopping list his mother had signed with Mrs. They would speak of us as ghosts and servants of a God they now fear. In this way they honor their ancestors. For 75 years, it was used as a reminder of the nobility of that cause. 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. 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. 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. 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." Fascism is a highly virulent social disease that usually destroys the host body but not before spreading the disease to many other people. The streets fill with bodies and stinging, painful clouds. The American Flag is positioned on the left, slightly higher than the Thin Blue Line flag. A State Capitol Police Officer in Connecticut donated a handcrafted wood rendering of the Thin Blue Line flag for display at the State Capitol. The Thin Blue Line flag shows how far America has to go to heal from police violence. 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. Two supporters are seen wearing orholding Kek Flags, an alt-right symbol. 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. A photo soon emerged of him holding a Confederate flag. They are met by massed and prepared force. Oops. The flag no longer represented just a 19th-century battle to preserve white supremacy, but a 20th-century one as well. It's a symbol of how successfully the Civil War has been misremembered so that "heritage" and "hate" could be disentangled from each other. We just didnt believe in racism. 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. (True, but usually for their masters. One mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. And that amnesia came at the expense of black Americans. 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. I would be sad about it, not violently upset. This notion is belied by any serious interrogation of the Civil War and the primary documents of its instigators. In September,. The current cycle of protests is a grotesque and familiar protocol, shaped over the past years since the killing of Michael Brown in 2014. White mobs at the University of Alabama carried Confederate flags when they threw rocks at Autherine Lucy, the university's first black student, before the university decided to expel her rather than protect her. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. Roofs crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of white supremacy which long animated his state nor from its potent symbolthe Confederate flag. And they`re willing to take up arms for it.". 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"). 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. The flag of the Thin Blue Line rises and rises. They are not the same thing. Her friend Evangela Hentz, who is black, opens the passenger door, and we all run through the rain to a pavilion. Something went wrong. Photograph: Kate Medley, Pride and prejudice? She immediately brings up Roof. Police continue to operate under layers of legal impunity and institutional protections. It was there when our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, were struggling to feed their six, eight, 10 kids. Still, Ira flies the flag, which his own high school and college used as an emblem. Hentz, 41, is from Missouri, once a violent slave state, but calls the flag just an inanimate object, adding: Stop letting it control you.. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. When I graduated from high school, we didnt have an indoor toilet.. But he was still a product of his time. 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. Even as the institution had shrunk outside the south for a century, its riches continued to drive the US economy, including Wall Street and early capitalism, up to the 1860s. The treatment is removal of exposure. In fact, Frederick Douglass called Lincoln preeminently the white mans president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men.. Here is what I had to say about ISIS back in July 2014: Id bring fear and death to them all! Still, Davis balks at the need to exorcise the emblem from the state flag today out of respect to Mississippians who descended from slaves. 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. The SCV might fly the flag, but we dont associate with them. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser. To this point, theDemocratic Party and the political and news media classin general have remained in denial, and largely passive in response. And the new story was more flattering to the South. By the mid-20th century, the flag symbolized white resistance to ending segregation laws. 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. 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. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. McCluney teaches his black students his Confederate history. 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. As Hussein Ibish warned in a recent article in the Atlantic, "The cancer of political violence is not an endemic American disease. 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. There are plenty of big bangs in "Flags of Our Fathers," but because . Made in the USA . Johnson would not censor individual ownership or display of Confederate regalia but also not continue official approval to historic symbols of racial violence and oppression. 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 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. It was not an unusual number of new cases for the department's eight-member gun violence restraining order unit, which Brooker oversees. 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. Why are these minorities pushing to do away with this flag? LANSING Gun safety measures Gov. Chauncey can be followed onTwitterandFacebook. According to Jacob, the blue line both divides and saves: It separates the black stripes representing civilians above it from the black stripes below it, which represent criminals, a distinct category from people worthy of protection. According to the people on TikTok and the Sun (British tabloid), the . The store specializes in Confederate flag-themed merchandise. t was 1957 when little Lindy Lubys great-uncle showed up at her house near Benton. Massey, who identifies as more Blackfoot-Cherokee than white, isnt interested in military history, saying the flag celebrates her heritage as a southerner, period. 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. Youre not bad with money. It was 1957 when little Lindy Lubys great-uncle showed up at her house near Benton, Mississippi, where the family had lived for generations. Then they tell people to message them or where to find them on Telegram. At first, white Southerners mostly displayed it at Civil War cemeteries and at memorials and veterans' reunions. Ultimately, Donald Trump, like other fascist and authoritarian leaders, is the symptom of a sick society. Do it now. As a white woman who still flies the flag in a historically black South Carolina neighborhood put it, it's about "family history.". Many people were taught certain things.. Then Johnson turns to Roof: All of the views and racial hatred symbols that informed his opinion walked into that church with him. She grew up in Red Bay, Alabama, in a former slave region that the last census showed as 93% white and 1% black. 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. Mississippi had 436,631, the most in the nation and 55% of the states population. 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. Furor in the streets has given way to tense negotiations over municipal budgets, but despite a few modest efforts to curb police budgets and reassign nonviolent duties to other city departments, the overall dynamic, across a country riven by state violence, has remained largely static. 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. Enter your email Subscribe Share Share on Facebook Tweet Tweet on Twitter Pin it Pin on Pinterest When the white supremacist John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago, Booths fellow travelers did all they could to disassociate themselves. . In the early 1950s, stock car racers, Southern universities, and social groups embraced the Confederate flag, Coski wrote in his book. I dont think the black people around here care, Lindy says. Cowardice, too, is heritage. Lindy nods, describing her childhood of poverty when the familys land was all they had left. 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. The blue line is both a border and an elevation, hanging above the threat that needs to be eliminated. I am going to start researching this, she adds about the history as Kate calls for her. And, as McCluney points out, New York-financed slave ships kept sailing to West Africa for people to be sold in the Caribbean and South America. They are protected by "law enforcement officers bill of rights" laws in more than a dozen states, which cushion them from the legal fallout of felonies and abuses; by the egregious doctrine of qualified immunity, which shields them from lawsuits against constitutional rights violations; by unions that embrace without qualification the worst offenders in police forces and exercise considerable power over municipal governments with both flush finances and the implicit threat of a heavily armed and punitive membership. What matters is this, they will fear the sword and the bearded ones wielding it. 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. 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. Move forward. The flag that Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, does not stand in opposition to this actit endorses it. 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. 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. As a white woman who still . The closet is packed with battle re-enactment costumes and weapon replicas. 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. Lindy has thought about our first conversation overnight and wants to understand why I do not support the flag. Fascism is not asimple machine with an on-and-off switch. Reproduction of material from any Salon pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. Mississippi has bent over backwards to say Im sorry. Trump equates support for Confederate flag with Black Lives Matter, Governor signs historic bill to remove Confederate symbol from Mississippi flag, Gone With the Wind returns to HBO Max with disclaimer that film denies the horrors of slavery, Song of the South: the difficult legacy of Disney's most shocking movie, Nascar bans Confederate flag from all tracks due to associations with slavery, voters to decide slavery per state or territory, who discusses the flag respectfully with friends who like it, New York City the countrys financial center, true; the Yankees torched Jackson three times. The Confederate flag was adopted to represent a short-lived rebellion to extend and protect white supremacy and black slavery. As the country prepared to hear the verdict in the Chauvin trial, more police armies massed in American cities. 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. "Family history" only became a plausible rationale because of a devil's bargain. 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. 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. And make no mistake: the GOP has become the party of political violence. The most widespread Nazi flag featured a black swastika in a white circle on a red field. The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. But you can get better. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. When I had interviewed her about being in a white gang, I saw her defending the flag on Facebook. But for Donald Trump himself,and most of hispolitical cult, that rule does not apply. But many of their households owned at least one, or they aspired to ascend to slave ownership. She worries that young people now think the flag stands for the KKK. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and culture, s time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. Potter was the president of the local police union . "The Confederate flag stands for slavery and human degradation. It's our duty to stand up, Let us stand united as men and women of faith to fight for our country. If the legislature follows Haley's wishes to move the flag, it will end a conflict that's been going on for more than 40 years. A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history. Lindy, now 66, has shifted her stance on the death penalty. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIt's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. Optimistic takes began to roll out: The world was changing, policing reforming. We are going to stand valiantlyfor God's incredible inherent truths that predate any version of government. From a Middle Eastern perspective, this is all appallingly familiar.". Shes struggled. 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 morning, protesters with signs and chants had dispersed, leaving the Thin Blue Line flag to fly alone in a hazy sky. The Los Angeles Police Department prepared en masse for protest, should Chauvin be acquitted, as did their colleagues in the New York Police Department across the country. Davis is circumspect on the complicated history: I can say it was wrong, and I hope I wouldnt have participated in (slavery), but how can we know for sure?. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? 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. All Ive heard is a downplaying and whitewashing of history in an attempt to gaslight its population.. South Carolina Gov. Drive out this cult of death and chains. The National Guard was brought in. Sign up to receive email updates daily and to hear what's going on with us! Black American flags are the flags that mean "no quarter shall be given." The systemic problem remains. That was horrific to my organization (SCV) when that took place.. Davis, 47, also believes the institution might have died out due to modernization if they were able to compromise another 20 years. She equally acknowledged the pain and the pride that the. It means they will execute their enemies. 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. It's this kind of use of the Confederate flag that has made it a cultural marker, shorthand not just for the Confederacy but for a specific strain of white Southern culture. 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. 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). Google Pay. Agitated at the news that yet another armed agent of the state has killed a member of the public, protesters object. Pretty much any non-Conservative. Their God, our God, it doesnt matter. Those who object are subject to exemplary violence. Such a stark symbolic contrast reminds us that our nation's long-standing cultural embrace that equates guns with liberty ignores the degree to which gun violence has historically also meant. Ive been there for her, Massey, the childs godmother, says. A Confederate flag at an anti-integration rally in Little Rock in 1959. 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? 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. In the interest of reuniting white Americans, the narrative around the Civil War changed in its aftermath. 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. It means that they will not surrender, will not take prisoners, and are willing to die for their cause. The German armed forces, for example, flew a modified version of the much older Imperial Reich war flag. I have struggled. If you dont breathe life into something, it will die, Massey adds. A Mississippi flag seen on the side of the road in Simpson County, Mississippi. Studies have shown that police dont solve most violent crimes. https://t.co/TVeEIOFoo1 pic.twitter.com/zuOU7HJ87S. The Americans who fly the Confederate flag. President Truman had vowed to do more to promote civil rights, integrating the military and telling the NAACP that civil rights could not wait. If we cant get white people to stand together, its going to be another civil war, he adds. So she asked for a new driver and got one. 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. And I would do all this with just few men; hand picked and war hardened. That's certainlytrue for the most dangerous and most effective of Donald Trump's allies, henchmen, henchwomen,and other followers. Black American flags are the flags that mean "no quarter shall be given." They are the opposite of the white flag of surrender. Im a pointblank person. Covid vaccinations, mostly. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. 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. The matter is especially raw in Mississippi, a state that suffered tremendous Confederate casualties and went from being the richest state from slavery before the civil war to one of the poorest. The protests, he felt, lacked reverence for the police and were awash in animus against them. Mobs fighting to protect segregated schools wore Confederate flags in Little Rock and New Orleans and Austin and Birmingham. The third was discarded because the white got dirty easily and could resemble a flag of surrender. 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. 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. His father sent a note back with no groceries. Those are the kind of historical interpretations that make the Confederate flag seem like a harmless symbol of regional heritage. Yet the Confederate battle flagthe flag of Dylann Roofstill flies on the Capitol grounds in Columbia. A black FedEx man wouldnt come through the front door, she says, instead leaving heavy packages on the porch because he thinks were racial. As a white woman who still flies the flag in a historically black South Carolina neighborhood put it, it's about. He was a justice of the peace in Yazoo City, the gateway to the fertile, brutal lands of the Delta. There would not have been a war over tariffs.. Narcissistic symbiosis refers to the developmental wounds that make the leader-follower relationship magnetically attractive. 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