Posted on 07/21/2015 8:03:28 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Anthony Hervey — a 49-year-old black activist known for being a vocal proponent of the Confederate flag — died Sunday in a car crash caused by a car-full of black hecklers who chased and verbally attacked Hervey, driving his vehicle off the Mississippi highway.
Hervey was driving home from a rally to preserve the Linn Park Confederate Monument in Birmingham, Alabama, the Daily Mail reports. The memorial is soon to be removed from the park pursuant to a recent vote by Birmingham political leaders.
Hervey was a well-known black activist for preserving the Confederate flag who’s advocacy dates back to more than two decades ago.
In his efforts to oppose movements to change or remove the flag, Hervey often protested by sporting Rebel soldier attire and waving the Confederate flag in Oxford Square, Mississippi.
His reasoning? To honor and raise awareness about the black soldiers who served in the Confederate army during the Civil War.
“[Defending the Confederate flag] is not racism,” Hervey said in 2001 interview reported by Daily Mail. “This is my heritage. [It’s] standing up for home.”
In the car with Hervey was another black Confederate flag supporter, Arlene Barnum, who survived the crash.
Barnum said that the 2005 Ford Explorer crashed when Hervey swerved to avoid another vehicle that pulled up beside them containing about four or five young black men who were shouting angrily at the Confederate flag activists.
“It spun like crazy and we flipped, flipped, flipped,” Barnum recounted to a Mississippi state trooper. “It was awful.”
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Thats not ‘heckling’. Its murder.
Those who decry intolerance are the most intolerant of all.
Hitler had the SS and the Brown Shirts. Obama has.....?
So much moral outrage and indignation. Meanwhile Planned Parenthood kills 330,000 black babies a year.
Wonder how many of the #blacklivesmatter crowd will speak up?
Definitely not heckling. I’m no lawyer but this sounds like aggravated assault with a motor vehicle and manslaughter. Hope they catch the vermin that caused this.
“A hate crime is a traditional offense like murder, arson, or vandalism with an added element of bias. For the purposes of collecting statistics, Congress has defined a hate crime as a “criminal offense against a person or property motivated in whole or in part by an offender’s bias against a race, religion, disability, ethnic origin or sexual orientation.” Hate itself is not a crime—and the FBI is mindful of protecting freedom of speech and other civil liberties.”
https://www.fbi.gov/about-us/investigate/civilrights/hate_crimes/overview
[after running up to the USS Enterprise flight deck to survey an F-14 crash scene]
"This business will get out of control! It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it!"
Well, someone has not lived through the national psychosis about the Confederate flag. The business was destined to get out of control and we will be lucky if more do not die in this Inquisition.
So where is the attorney general coming out with a statement and immediate investigation of this organized murder done to deprive an African American of their civil rights? ~crickets~
ping
And sells their parts like car thieves to chop shops.
Remember when blacks killed the student back in 1995 just for having a CBF on the back of his truck? This happened in Springfield, Tennessee. This isn’t the first time the race of professional victims killed innocents for their noble cause.
Well he was certainly a very colorful character. Lied about his degrees, caught up in student loan fraud in Chicago, and for all that he challenged people to value free speech and caused a famous university to break with a prevailing tide of censorship. Even the reporter he punched out acknowledges his contribution. It’s a sad day when America is no longer safe for flawed oddballs who might have a valuable lesson to offer the rest of us.
This is just appalling. My condolences to the family. This should be investigated as a murder and a hate crime.
Domestic Terrorism, in my book.
Our national outrages are selective, which is to say they are selected for us.
HUH, not sure what you are on about, but a man has died due to him being forced off the road by thugs.
Could you clarify what you’re saying?
Hand to ear... *crickets*
Will Net Roots insist #BlackLivesMatter in this case??? Or do only CERTAIN ones matter???
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