How can you think that stopping the constant barrage of microaggressions against PoC is important but that stopping this huge microaggression is inconsequential?

Lol you’re that deadly combination of stupid, asshole, and pigheaded. good luck with that.

The flag started being used again in the 60s to protest against the Civil Rights movement. So I have a big fucking problem with it. I live in Georgia and anyone who has any kind of confederate flag imagery gets a side-eye from me.

Maybe she said that Bible verse to give HERSELF the strength to lower herself to the ground and face imminent arrest. Maybe it has nothing to do with drenching the landscape in Jesus, and maybe, just maybe, she can say whatever the fuck she wants to say.

What is she drenching in Jesus??? First of all, that verse is from the Old Testament—she could very well be Jewish for all I know. Secondly, her motivations are her own, and for you to question them or to act like she is trying to drench the landscape in Jesus is both stupid and presumptuous.

They've raised 22K already. :)

More than one issue needs attention, and we have always addressed more than one issue. Gestures like this carry big weight, that’s why this flag is so cherished by racists because it symbolizes to them an attitude that they still have a society tolerating their racism, one receptive to them restoring the shitty…

Memorials to dead soldiers is a far different thing from glorifying the corrupt government that sent them to die.

And Rosa Parks refusing to give up her seat didn’t stop black people from being lynched or guarantee them the right to vote. In a literal sense, what you’re saying is true, but progress happens in steps so small we don’t realize their significance in the moment. Only through the lens of history do we see that they…

They made a (black) maintenance worker put it back up almost immediately, just in time for the KKK rally. <— I hate everything about this sentence.

So, the flag of a treasonous pro-slavery group was literally held up with chains until a black woman broke those chains apart?

YES! Especially since the swastika/nazi flag is banned in most of Europe, and, because of this, European white supremacists march under the confederate flag. Which goes to show how interchangeable they are.

No, old white dude. A great soldier is brave. And one of the bravest things a person can do is admit it when they are wrong. It is terrifying to really look at yourself and see that you are wrong, wrong, wrong - it takes real bravery to do it. My great-great grandpa was shot when he a confederate solder too - but I…

Sign should read: My grandpappy took up arms against the Union and all I got is this lousy flag.

We need to get rid of the fucking pole!

They don’t carry Swasticas

I hope she signs her name Bree Newsome, Goddamn American Hero.

argh! rage, rage, all the rage! Your great grandpa was shot because he was a fucking traitor to America, dumbass!

That woman is a goddamn hero and a complete badass. South Carolina, stop being an embarrassment and take down that flag.

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