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?. We are going to stand valiantlyfor God's incredible inherent truths that predate any version of government. They're angry. Narcissistic symbiosis refers to the developmental wounds that make the leader-follower relationship magnetically attractive. 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. It still holds true today. antisocial and other anti-human behavior on a national scale. As a white woman who still flies the flag in a historically black South Carolina neighborhood put it, it's about "family history.". The Confederate flag stands for bloodshed and segregation.". The South Carolina state Capitol began flying the flag in 1962 and never stopped. No one but Republicans themselves can cure it. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. 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. (Buyenlarge Archive Photos via Getty Images). 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. And looking upon African Slavery from the same stand-point held by the noble framers of our constitution. In his attic, McCluney downplays slavery ownership saying elite planters, not soldiers, owned most slaves. Until that kid went in that church in Charleston, people never thought anything about the Confederate or Mississippi flag, she says. 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. Embrace Violence Two simple words, that when together, build the foundation for all that we know. 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 writer Patrick Wyman has hypothesized that the flagrancy of police violence against protesters is part of a strategy of exemplary violence, akin to the outsize and grotesque revenges inflicted on participants in medieval peasants rebellions. Everyone should have the right to purchase and display symbols for themselves on private property, but [not force the flag to] represent all citizens of any particular community, Johnson says, because they dont. 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." ", 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. They understand that after all else fails and evil overwhelms the powers of the pen, it is they that will be called upon. But many of their households owned at least one, or they aspired to ascend to slave ownership. Police continue to operate under layers of legal impunity and institutional protections. A Confederate flag at an anti-integration rally in Little Rock in 1959. Men that live outside the illusion of safety built upon walls of ignorance and denial that is our peaceful existence in this world. Hentz, 41, is from Missouri, once a violent slave state, but calls the flag just an inanimate object, adding: Stop letting it control you.. And make no mistake: the GOP has become the party of political violence. Effie, its just been a bad day, the lawman said to his sister, as the six-year-old listened. Chauncey can be followed onTwitterandFacebook. "In no way does he reflect the people in our state who respect, and in many ways, revere it.". 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. God's will be done. Each week, we explore unique solutions to some of the world's biggest problems. 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? 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. An alarming number of military members have been making Tik Toks talking about how they are being discharged because they refuse the vaccine. 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. 661 likes. Agitated at the news that yet another armed agent of the state has killed a member of the public, protesters object. A photo soon emerged of him holding a Confederate flag. 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. Lindy nods, describing her childhood of poverty when the familys land was all they had left. Dont ask if you dont want to know. But, he adds, they know me as a teacher who cares about them. Put it in a museum. 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. But he was still a product of his time. The post-war white south embraced the Confederate battle flag, making it their sentimental symbol of the "lost cause" of the war. After driving north along the lonely stretch of Highway 49 through Delta plantation lands, we end up in Larry McCluney Jrs attic in Greenwood. https://t.co/TVeEIOFoo1 pic.twitter.com/zuOU7HJ87S. The systemic problem remains. So she asked for a new driver and got one. So did the Citizens' Councils, white supremacist groups of prominent and successful people who opposed integration. Once such a process has begun, and those forces are unleashed, it is not easy to stop. She immediately brings up Roof. The American Flag is positioned on the left, slightly higher than the Thin Blue Line flag. 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. Numerous opportunities to simultaneously protect patients and the planet, say experts. 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). President Truman had vowed to do more to promote civil rights, integrating the military and telling the NAACP that civil rights could not wait. Neither Ira nor Lindy has asked black acquaintances why the flag is offensive, or asked why many believe it belongs in museums, but not part of a state emblem. Curfews were imposed. And they`re willing to take up arms for it.". When Southern states gave the flags pride of place in their capitols, it was to signal support for segregation. As a white woman who still . Learn more. The treatment is removal of exposure. Pay in 4 interest-free installments for orders over $50.00 with. Witness heretofore our wealth and power; witness their elevation and enlightenment above their race elsewhere. Most Confederacy fans may cherry-pick their sides history, but many are more precise about the chinks in the Yankees armor including that not everyone up north was hip to slavery ending, either. Her sister would exchange clothes with a black friend, she says. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. Like other vestiges of the Confederacy, the flag outlived the Civil War. Come on over! Joe Barnes booms, describing his nearby Seminary home as the one with the US, Confederate and Mississippi flags out front, after I tell him Roslyn sent us. 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. Many defected to segregated union camps. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. The streets fill with bodies and stinging, painful clouds. To me, the flag is not a racist thing. Yet the Confederate battle flagthe flag of Dylann Roofstill flies on the Capitol grounds in Columbia. By 1865, the Civil War had morphed into a war against slaverythe cornerstone of Confederate society. ", it is clearly true that the Americanright isincreasingly willing to accept or condoneviolence as a means of expanding and protecting their social and political power, more than 50 percent of Trump supporters want "red states" to secede from the Union, During an interview with Scientific American magazine, Dr. Bandy Lee, the principal editor of the 2017 bestseller"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," explained. There would not have been a war over tariffs.. 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 fact, Frederick Douglass called Lincoln preeminently the white mans president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men.. Embrace equity. Three died in battle, and one in a makeshift hospital in the Lyceum at Ole Miss in Oxford, Mississippi one of numerous buildings built by slaves. The closet is packed with battle re-enactment costumes and weapon replicas. In the interest of reuniting white Americans, the narrative around the Civil War changed in its aftermath. An entire people are poorer for his action. Still, Davis balks at the need to exorcise the emblem from the state flag today out of respect to Mississippians who descended from slaves. 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. The National Guard was brought in. Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. You think I speak lies and elaborations. Petite Roslyn Stuart is behind the counter with a swagger like she has seen it all more than once. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. She supports Mississippians right to keep it as is. 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