That week, a Thin Blue Line flag was raised defiantly above the Brooklyn Center Police Department building in Minnesota. 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. She grew up in Red Bay, Alabama, in a former slave region that the last census showed as 93% white and 1% black. 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. Fascism is not asimple machine with an on-and-off switch. The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. Those who object are subject to exemplary violence. I later share those words with Derrick Johnson, the national president and CEO of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), who previously led the Mississippi chapter. Many defected to segregated union camps. When her husband came later, the storekeeper admonished him in front of young Ira. Kevin Davis sits on the tailgate of his truck in Simpson County, Mississippi. One mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. In April 2001, Mississippians voted along race lines to keep the flag as it was. After the north won, it imposed a harsh Reconstruction on the south that still fuels white resentment today. One day, a black boy came to his dads store with a shopping list his mother had signed with Mrs. April 21, 202111:12. People like me its in our blood. The National Guard was brought in. ", 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. "The hate-filled murderer who massacred our brothers and sisters in Charleston has a sick and twisted view of the flag, Haley said. 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. The streets fill with bodies and stinging, painful clouds. And in her statement, she acknowledged South Carolinians who insist despite history's evidence to the contrary that the flag is not a racist symbol. Listen to the trailer for, Dear Therapist: I Divorced My Dying Wife Once She Was No Longer Lucid, did all they could to disassociate themselves, who understood the logical conclusion of Confederate rhetoric. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIt's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. A photo soon emerged of him holding a Confederate flag. Oops. As Hussein Ibish warned in a recent article in the Atlantic, "The cancer of political violence is not an endemic American disease. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. The Havok Journal welcomes re-posting of our original content as long as it is done in compliance with our Terms of Use. Add to cart Add to WatchlistUnwatch Watch list is full Chauncey DeVega is a senior politics writer for Salon. Embrace violence. Put it in a museum. Covid vaccinations, mostly. But one mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. I would not be up around the last flag making a chain gang to keep somebody from taking it down, Davis says. 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. By submitting your email, you agree to our, The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy and it alwayshas, The history, though, is clear: from the Civil War through the civil rights movement, the flag has always been about white supremacy. It was there when our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, were struggling to feed their six, eight, 10 kids. Save your lovely souls. The first cut of the film also showed Lindy and husband, Ira Isonhood, flying the Confederate battle flag on a 20ft pole in the backyard of one of their homes. By 1861, the south was demanding slavery expansion into western territories, which Lincolns Black Republicans adamantly opposed. I later relay Lindys questions to Genesis Be, a 31-year-old hip-hop artist, public speaker and anti-Confederate flag activist from Biloxi. 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. 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. 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. Mississippi has bent over backwards to say Im sorry. 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. In response, the Ku Klux Klan surged. The treatment is removal of exposure. The Confederate flag stands for rebellion and treachery. They said it should be left up to South Carolina, a position for which McCain later apologized. Yet the Confederate battle flagthe flag of Dylann Roofstill flies on the Capitol grounds in Columbia. 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Lees armies took special care to enslave free blacks during their Northern campaign. College students who supported Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign in 1948 waved Confederate flags at campaign events. Anything less, and the disease of American fascism will only go dormant until it is resurrected again perhaps in amore dangerous and virulent form. As historian David Blight has argued, the invented memory brought together white Northerners and Southerners to emphasize the valor, courage, and sacrifice of soldiers on both sides. 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. In September,. He did not violate some implicit rule of Confederate chivalry or politesse. Were not a violent organization. (True, but usually for their masters. Public opinion polls and other research have repeatedly shown thatmillions of Republican voters and Trump followers would support the use of violence to remove Joe Biden from office because of the "Big Lie" and their belief that that he is not a legitimate president. 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. In the end, of course, Chauvin was found guilty on all three of his charges. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_3" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Copyright 2023 The Havok Journal. The third was discarded because the white got dirty easily and could resemble a flag of surrender. If we cant get white people to stand together, its going to be another civil war, he adds. LANSING Gun safety measures Gov. He was a justice of the peace in Yazoo City, the gateway to the fertile, brutal lands of the Delta. Our disgust for the dastardly wretch can scarcely be uttered, fumed a former governor of South Carolina, the state where secession began. 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. Will you support Voxs explanatory journalism? And luckily for all of the others, it is! 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? 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. This group understands that not all people can be negotiated with and at then end of the day, human nature is primal. We are going to stand valiantlyfor God's incredible inherent truths that predate any version of government. And looking upon African Slavery from the same stand-point held by the noble framers of our constitution. 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. Move forward. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. Enter your email Subscribe Share Share on Facebook Tweet Tweet on Twitter Pin it Pin on Pinterest Thomasa Massey, 49, jumps out of her car at Pearl Park in a majority-white Jackson suburb wearing a T-shirt with Confederate butterflies she designed with Pride, Not Prejudice underneath. 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. Property crime investigations altogether have an abysmal 17 percent clearance rate. The Christian flag? she asks. I just had to go cut a black boy down off that hanging tree and take him to his mama.. The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed. Theres also a civil war chess set. Dont ask if you dont want to know. But, he adds, they know me as a teacher who cares about them. We just didnt believe in racism. There are trashy white people and trashy black people., SCV is not racist or violent, he says. newsletter. 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. It means they will execute their enemies. The flag could easily be honored or studied in museums, he adds. I love peace more than life. 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. Who are their enemies? The 1860 census shows 49% of families in Mississippi one in two owned at least one slave. She is the author of the recent book "Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy.". 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. 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 flag of the Thin Blue Line rises and rises. 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 friends reject being offended over what Hentz calls just a piece of cloth. It looks like they reduced use of force for a few weeks after killing George Floyd and then *increased* police violence substantially. 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. It's how Mississippi and Florida could include the Confederate flag in their state flags during the 1890s with little fuss. 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. However, to a very select few, its much much more. antisocial and other anti-human behavior on a national scale. In fact, police violence by Minneapolis law enforcement increased substantially following the 2020 murder of Floyd. But many of their households owned at least one, or they aspired to ascend to slave ownership. The first was discarded because it looked too much like the American flag. Lindy and Ira Isonhood walk along Deer Hollow, their property in Copiah County, Mississippi. What matters is this, they will fear the sword and the bearded ones wielding it. Petite Roslyn Stuart is behind the counter with a swagger like she has seen it all more than once. 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 Confederate flag stands for bloodshed and segregation.". Thomasa Massey and Evangela Hentz are close friends in Brandon, Mississippi. The streets were filled with the opaque greenish mist of chemical weaponry, hanging in stinging clouds that made residents in neighboring apartments cough. The civil rights movement didn't change the flag's meaning it simply made the hate underlying the heritage more explicit. 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The force is organized with military precision and often military equipment. ), Schools are not teaching history the right way, he says. 0:57. If you dont breathe life into something, it will die, Massey adds. Please enter a valid email and try again. 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. His solution? That is not hate, nor is it racism.". Surely the flags defenders will proffer other, muddier, interpretations which allow them the luxury of looking away. 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. The Confederate flag was adopted to represent a short-lived rebellion to extend and protect white supremacy and black slavery. But black newspapers didn't buy it: "Have we so soon forgot what the Confederate flag represents?" 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