These people are scum.
Cops: Video shows 2 men placing Confederate flags at Ebenezer
By David Markiewicz
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Atlanta —Atlanta police said surveillance footage shows two men placing Confederate flags at two of Atlanta’s most notable landmarks early Thursday: Ebenezer Baptist Church and Martin Luther King, Jr. National Historic Site Visitor Center.
Ever since Confederate flags finally started coming down, a segment of the white population has somehow decided that something valuable is being taken away from them and they're going to fight back.
So far, it hasn't been violent, not that I know of anyway, but last week, this also happened, and also in Georgia (sigh).
Confederate flag wavers caught yelling racist slurs at black kid’s birthday party insist they’re not hateful
Confederate flag wavers taunt black Georgia birthday party guests as they drive away (Screenshot/YouTube)
Armed white Confederate flag supporters clashed with attendees of a black child's birthday party in Douglasville, Georgia, over the weekend, culminating in a tense standoff between the two groups and a threat from the Confederate battle flag-bearing band that they would "kill y'all n****rs."
"One had a gun, saying he was gonna kill the [racial slur]. Then one of them said gimme the gun, I'll shoot them [racial slur]," party organizer Melissa Alford told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, adding the trucks had passed by several times before stopping in a field next to her house.
Oh, but don't worry. They aren't hateful. Like at all.
A group of white men said they were the ones victimized after being accused of disrupting a black child’s birthday party in Georgia while flying Confederate flags from their pickup trucks, according to the Atlanta Journal Constitution.
Because of course. Of course they're victims. Nothing happened to these guys. None of them got hurt. One guy did get arrested, but, as the police report states, that was for an un-related charge.
But somehow, they are still able to see themselves as "victims." They haven't had their precious flags taken away. They haven't lost the right to fly them in public. But if there is maybe a bit of societal disapproval for flying the banner of a nation that went to war with the United States in order to try to preserve the institution of slavery, they somehow feel that they're - I don't know, losing their place at the top of the societal food chain? Or something? I don't know, but they seem to feel threatened in some way.
And these cro-magnons are not going to go gently into the dustbin of history. They thrive on rage, resentment and paranoia. And they're heavily armed.
This is only going to get worse.
In Tennessee, Sgt. Briscoe, a 17-year Army veteran and African-American woman, was harassed by two white men in a pickup truck similarly adorned with Confederate flags. While driving past her family at her home, the truck slowed down and the men called them “m*therf*cking n***ers.”
I don't think it will ever end. The south, unfortunately, has led the way in hate for so many years...it might help if politicians from the southern states spoke out about racism, but so many seem to be racists themselves, or just plain mealy-mouthed fearful bastards!
ReplyDeleteI grew up in the South and we all knew what that fucking flag stands for. I cannot recall anyone in those days asserting that it meant anything other than a racist statement. The "peckerwoods" (a southern term for white trash, ignoramuses) of today who are claiming otherwise, are goddamn liars. Pure and simple.
ReplyDeleteYou are right, nothing will change with these shit heads. It will get worse.