Posted on 02/03/2021 12:46:25 PM PST by yesthatjallen
The defining photograph of the attempted insurrection on Jan. 6 was that of a man strolling through the broken halls of our national Capitol, amid the smashed windows and assorted rubble of the failed coup, proudly brandishing a Confederate flag on his shoulder and hoping to overturn an election decided largely by Black voters. It’s an image that tells the story not only of Jan. 6 or of the Trump presidency, but also of all the steps that led to that moment — the whole history of hate in America captured in one frame.
For me, the echoes of that picture reverberated back nearly six years, to the day my mom — Ethel Lee Lance — was shot and killed while praying in Charleston’s Mother Emanuel Church along with eight other Black Americans, including two of my cousins and one of my close childhood friends. In the months leading up to that tragic day, my mom’s killer posed for pictures with the Confederate flag, sometimes even slinging it over his shoulder just like that insurrectionist in the Capitol did.
The similarities between these two days don’t end there: Both days ended in deaths, both attacks were perpetrated (at least in part) by white supremacists chasing a lost cause, and tragically, the perpetrators of both incidents were carrying more than just flags. My mother’s killer was armed with a handgun; the Capitol insurrectionists were armed with enough live ammunition to shoot every member of the House and Senate five times.
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Simply put, if the Confederate flag is the primary symbol of white-supremacist hate, the gun is its deadliest weapon.
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Goebbelsesque.
Scary times.
The drivel that comes from the WaPo is incredible in its stupidity, mendacity, and divisiveness.
Decided largely by Black Voters? The numbers just aren’t there. Always resorting to the Race Card. SMH This is not generating any Unity.
A person would be a fool or an idiot or both
to disarm in the face of leftist hate.
If you banned guns from all black people.....well, based on the statistics, imagine the difference in say, Chi-town. But facts are meaningless to racists like this babe.
“We must disarm hate•
Then we just disarm Antifa/BLM and all demonrats since they are the largest threat now to America!
So how come black on black violence accounts for most of the murders in this country?
Then explain why did WaPo columnist Carl Rowan (RIP) kill an intruder in self defence? Was there racism involved in something like that? Was Eleanor Roosevelt a racist when she carried a revolver on her trips through the South? After a while, you just shake your head in disbelief over how these people can say stuff like this with a straight face.
Does she really wanna go there cause using history as a guide her side has been pretty violent since the 60s
Hi.
In the fwiw department, Sharon Risher is a racist.
5.56mm
Nancy’s Lie Machine is going into Plaid
Another A-hole smoking the hate drug.
In past times,didn’t WHITE DEMS pass laws stating blacks couldn’t read or write o have guns?????
What about black people who have defended themselves with concealed carry sidearms? Are they white supremacists?
Angela Davis and the Weather Underground were white supremacists, well duh.
I just looked at her photo. Ugly carpet munching dyke who is a Reverend.
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