That's certainlytrue for the most dangerous and most effective of Donald Trump's allies, henchmen, henchwomen,and other followers. Lindy and Ira Isonhood walk along Deer Hollow, their property in Copiah County, Mississippi. 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. Something went wrong. As red flags show up more and more over time, you'll start noticing patterns of behavior. In September,. The flag was moved from the Capitol dome to the most prominent spot on the Capitol grounds, near a monument to Confederate soldiers. Thomasa Massey and Evangela Hentz are close friends in Brandon, Mississippi. Surely the flags defenders will proffer other, muddier, interpretations which allow them the luxury of looking away. 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. Davis no relation to Jeff has taught history in public and private schools, and also turned out to be an SCV member. The streets fill with bodies and stinging, painful clouds. 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. Nance also noted that Cawthorn's propaganda video is thematically similar to the type of propaganda used by Islamic terroristgroups such as ISIS and al-Qaida to radicalize and recruitmembers. We are stopping by homes with flags, but owners keep pointing us on down the road to him. I met Be after reporting that her grandfather, Pastor Clyde Briggs, was a target of the Klan in the 1960s for trying to organize and arm black people against white supremacy. More than any individual actor, in recent history, Roof honored his flag in exactly the manner it always demandedwith human sacrifice. At first, white Southerners mostly displayed it at Civil War cemeteries and at memorials and veterans' reunions. He is right, but only to a point. (Today, its supporters say the KKK co-opted it.). Then Johnson turns to Roof: All of the views and racial hatred symbols that informed his opinion walked into that church with him. Youre not bad with money. The infamous tree, used for lynching, was bending over a bridge on Highway 433 toward Lexington. ", 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. 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. 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. Its not about hatred. He adds that blacks fought for the south, too. Hes more than enough reason that the symbols of the Confederacy should be removed from the public square.. 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. Joe Barnes gets into the truck at his home in Seminary, Mississippi. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. The dead person is a suspect before they are a man, woman or child. They're angry. The German armed forces, for example, flew a modified version of the much older Imperial Reich war 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. A Confederate flag at an anti-integration rally in Little Rock in 1959. 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. Witness heretofore our wealth and power; witness their elevation and enlightenment above their race elsewhere. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. 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. Drive out this cult of death and chains. Is it their feelings? There are trashy white people and trashy black people., SCV is not racist or violent, he says. Similarly, alarge proportion of Republicans believe that the rioters who stormed the CapitolonJan. 6 were "patriots" whose use of violence was justified. The 1860 census shows 49% of families in Mississippi one in two owned at least one slave. 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. In the end, of course, Chauvin was found guilty on all three of his charges. Barnes, 66, beams as he hands us his SCV card with Nathan Bedford Forrest, the wealthy Memphis slave trader and first KKK grand wizard, pictured on the front. Pretty much any non-Conservative. (Buyenlarge Archive Photos via Getty Images). His own ancestors sacrifice is paramount. Cries for forgiveness and moans of helplessness will fill their dwellings. (Kean Collection via Getty Images). The educator points to Roofs horrible, horrible 2015 massacre of black worshippers and his viral photo holding the Confederate flag as inciting a war on the emblem. Move forward. 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. But I dont believe everyone who likes the flag is racist. Embrace violence. A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history. However, to a very select few, its much much more. Today, the symbol often appears at pro-white rallies and is a lightning rod in Americas calcifying racial divides. That was horrific to my organization (SCV) when that took place.. 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. 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? Because, my friends, if we lose this country today, if we bend the knee to the Democrats today, our country will be lost forever, our children will never know what freedom is. 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. 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.. I dont think the black people around here care, Lindy says. His favorite Mississippi history book is from 1900. 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. Im a pointblank person. 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. As recently as 2011, Haley dismissed concerns about the flag, saying she thought the state had moved on. itol began flying the flag in 1962 and never stopped. 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. The National Guard were deployed to Minneapolis, Chicago and Philadelphia. Until that kid went in that church in Charleston, people never thought anything about the Confederate or Mississippi flag, she says. And while there's always been a strain of militancy on the American right and left fringes, there is something unmistakably new, and profoundly alarming, about the casual, florid, and sadistic. 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 . IE 11 is not supported. By the morning, protesters with signs and chants had dispersed, leaving the Thin Blue Line flag to fly alone in a hazy sky. Have loved the Union beyond expression. They would speak of us as ghosts and servants of a God they now fear. I would not be up around the last flag making a chain gang to keep somebody from taking it down, Davis says. They are the opposite of the white flag of surrender. In the 2000 Republican primary, both George W. Bush and John McCain were asked what should be done about the flag. The Christian flag? she asks. The flag of the Thin Blue Line rises and rises. 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. To wait longer would be a crime. Fascism is not asimple machine with an on-and-off switch. In April 2001, Mississippians voted along race lines to keep the flag as it was. You think I speak lies and elaborations. Visitors to Charleston have long been treated to South Carolinas attempt to clean its history and depict its secession as something other than a war to guarantee the enslavement of the majority of its residents. Numerous opportunities to simultaneously protect patients and the planet, say experts. Still, Davis balks at the need to exorcise the emblem from the state flag today out of respect to Mississippians who descended from slaves. Massey, who identifies as more Blackfoot-Cherokee than white, isnt interested in military history, saying the flag celebrates her heritage as a southerner, period. 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. One day, a black boy came to his dads store with a shopping list his mother had signed with Mrs. That flag featured horizontal and vertical black bands intersected by the Prussian eagle. As the country prepared to hear the verdict in the Chauvin trial, more police armies massed in American cities. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. It is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says. The third was discarded because the white got dirty easily and could resemble a flag of surrender. Be, who discusses the flag respectfully with friends who like it, challenges Massey, Hentz and others to probe deeper. The flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed. 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. He did not violate some implicit rule of Confederate chivalry or politesse. "In the first phase, tension builds and a . The current cycle of protests is a grotesque and familiar protocol, shaped over the past years since the killing of Michael Brown in 2014. President Truman had vowed to do more to promote civil rights, integrating the military and telling the NAACP that civil rights could not wait. The biggest message they have been sending out is, "it's time" or "the time is now." The south was demanding a federal slavery code to force all states to comply with the Fugitive Slave Act of 1850 and return runaways to owners, even as northern states were passing personal liberty laws to circumvent what abolitionists called the bloodhound law. Fascism is a highly virulent social disease that usually destroys the host body but not before spreading the disease to many other people. Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. Give The Atlantic Politics Take Down the Confederate FlagNow The flag that Dylann Roof. It's a symbol of how successfully the Civil War has been misremembered so that "heritage" and "hate" could be disentangled from each other. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. Associated Press articles: Copyright 2016 The Associated Press. And I would do all this with just few men; hand picked and war hardened. 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. A raid last week against a militia group in the West Bank town of Jenin, in which the Israeli military killed 10 people - militants. His solution? 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. It was 1957 when little Lindy Lubys great-uncle showed up at her house near Benton, Mississippi, where the family had lived for generations. There would not have been a war over tariffs.. 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Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Surely the flags defenders will proffer other, muddier, interpretations which allow them the luxury of looking away. All hope for peace is dead. Were on Highway 49 south when it pops up: Flag Heads, which sells adult novelties and Confederate tchotchkes. They are met by massed and prepared force. Photograph: Kate Medley, Pride and prejudice? What matters is this, they will fear the sword and the bearded ones wielding it. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? 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. And luckily for all of the others, it is! https://t.co/TVeEIOFoo1 pic.twitter.com/zuOU7HJ87S. 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. 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. Embrace Violence Two simple words, that when together, build the foundation for all that we know. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and culture, s time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. After last week's racially motivated slaying of nine African Americans in a South Carolina church, the flag has become a target for those who consider it a symbol of hatred, a strident reminder. Her sister would exchange clothes with a black friend, she says. When the April 11 death of Wright prompted renewed civilian protests in Minneapolis, police gathered as they have gathered so many times this year, as they had in response to Floyds murder nearly a year ago in tight formation, in full riot gear with shields and batons and service weapons, ready to repel an invading army. But, unfortunately, many of them also live in states where masks and vaccines are required by state governments, healthcare, and law enforcement. 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. They understand that after all else fails and evil overwhelms the powers of the pen, it is they that will be called upon. But for Donald Trump himself,and most of hispolitical cult, that rule does not apply. The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. 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." 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. When Southern states gave the flags pride of place in their capitols, it was to signal support for segregation. You know, Democrats, Liberals, LGBTQ, BIPOC, and the vaccinated. 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. But that reverence now stops at the capitol grounds. Kek Flags Supporters of President Trump storm the United States Capitol building on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington DC. When the white supremacist John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago, Booths fellow travelers did all they could to disassociate themselves. 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. She grew up in Red Bay, Alabama, in a former slave region that the last census showed as 93% white and 1% black. As the practice waned up north, white men rushed to the south, bringing slaves. When I graduated from high school, we didnt have an indoor toilet.. Roofs crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of white supremacy which long animated his state nor from its potent symbolthe Confederate flag. 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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.. It's our duty to stand up, Let us stand united as men and women of faith to fight for our country. They release a curt statement in grammar designed to deflect responsibility (officer-involved shooting; incident). Their hands would tremble, fearing that their actions have brought upon them the wrath of God. Yes, he was. We are going to stand valiantlyfor God's incredible inherent truths that predate any version of government. Mississippi has bent over backwards to say Im sorry. Most of em dont know what it means, she says. He was a justice of the peace in Yazoo City, the gateway to the fertile, brutal lands of the Delta. Patriot Front is a Texas-based white supremacist group led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau. 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. Each week, we explore unique solutions to some of the world's biggest problems. Republican elected officials and other right-wing opinion leaders have continued to escalatetheir threats of political violence against Democrats and other targeted groups. One mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. 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. It's an old truismthatthe "real bad men" (and bad women) "move in silence and violence." The SCV might fly the flag, but we dont associate with them. The flying of the flag is not only a reaction to those protesting police after Officer Kim Potter shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright. We just didnt believe in racism. 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. What has Mississippi done to say that it is sorry for the rape, torturing and killings of scores of its black citizens in order to create a white majority? Be says. His father sent a note back with no groceries. Swastikas and Confederate flags were among the overt hate signs that the insurrection brought into the Capitol. 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. Embrace equity. Signs set the tone at the Embrace help centers and shelter for victims of domestic and sexual violence in rural Wisconsin. 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). Made in the USA . But many of their households owned at least one, or they aspired to ascend to slave ownership. Were not a violent organization. You can also contribute via. Yes, they say civil war, and they say it's already started. It's alarming because there is probably an equal number of guys on there talking about the civil war plans and actively using Tik Tok to recruit these military and ex-military members. As a white woman who still flies the flag in a historically black South Carolina neighborhood put it, it's about. 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. The American Flag is positioned on the left, slightly higher than the Thin Blue Line flag. Eventually, they will take the state flag; they will change it. Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for NFQ Embrace Violence Flag at the best online prices at eBay! Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. (True, but usually for their masters. It turned into one big heckuva mess. It was an historic moment for gay. Sitting quietly in the corner, they wait patiently, hoping for the best but prepared to do the absolute worst. 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. Its not us thats racial; its them thats racial. Mobs fighting to protect segregated schools wore Confederate flags in Little Rock and New Orleans and Austin and Birmingham. Property crime investigations altogether have an abysmal 17 percent clearance rate. In 1994, the legislature seriously considered a compromise, but it later fell apart. Their beliefs will be turned upside down as entire units are brought down without mercy as if God himself smite them. Financial contributions from our readers are a critical part of supporting our resource-intensive work and help us keep our journalism free for all. 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. So, why are they doing this. So, I say to you again, simply I would bring fear and death to them all!. They are not the same thing. The flag that Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, does not stand in opposition to this actit endorses it. Robert E. Lees armies took special care to enslave free blacks during their Northern campaign. 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. McCluney, 53, is a national officer in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which accepts male descendants of southern soldiers. 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 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. According to the people on TikTok and the Sun (British tabloid), the . The blue line is both a border and an elevation, hanging above the threat that needs to be eliminated. Ive been there for her, Massey, the childs godmother, says. Other official flags were also displayed during the Nazi regime. But he was still a product of his time. His essays can also be found atChaunceydevega.com. Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6. 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. 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"). Black American flags are the flags that mean "no quarter shall be given." 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. 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. 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