Mississippi's blood-stained flag is America's crisis (opinion) [Trample 1st Amendment] [ed]

CNN ^ | June 27, 2020 | Aunjanue Ellis

[C19fan]

Malcolm X was not pleased. The crowd was meager. Fannie Lou Hamer deserved better. She had stopped in Harlem to speak as his guest just months after her instrumental role in the Mississippi Freedom Democratic Party's historic challenge to unseat Mississippi's all-White, all-male delegation to the 1964 Democratic National Convention.

[C19fan]

Money quote:

But for all the finger-pointing at Mississippi, there is a gaping hole in the logic here. There would be no Confederate flag in Mississippi or anywhere else in this country if it were banned nationwide. Congress must act now to ban the public display of that flag in the same way Germany banned the swastika after WWII. Organizations like PEN America and the ACLU -- which have, even while defending civil rights, preserved the flag as a form of "free speech" -- must acknowledge they have blood on their hands. The Confederate flag is not free speech. Black Americans have paid for it with our lives.

Scratch a liberal, and find a fascist every time - James Woods

[C19fan]

Going by Mr. Ellis argument the BLM and Antifa crowd believe the American flag is just a “blood-stained” as the Confederate flag so that needs to go too.

[sauropod]

Why should we pay attention to the babblings of the historically ignorant?

[manc]

I don;t give any attention to this turd or CNN