Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

Utah 'Black Lives Matter' Leader Steps Down, Leaves State After Post About U.S. Flag
Newsweek ^ | 09 Aug 2021 | Mary Ellen Cagnassola

Posted on 08/09/2021 7:46:59 PM PDT by blueplum

The president of the Black Lives Matter Utah Chapter announced Sunday that she is resigning from her post due to death threats pouring in over a controversial social media post about the American Flag.

Lex Scott, who was also the president of the Utah Black History Museum until Sunday, said in a Facebook post in the BLM Utah Chapter group that she has "received death threats like a flood" since posting commentary about the meaning of the American flag under the account for BLM Utah Chapter, which is not connected to Black Lives Matter National...

...In the commentary Scott posted about the meaning of the American flag on July 4, she argued that for Black Americans, the flag is a warning that the person(s) flying it has hostile feelings toward people of color.

"When we Black Americans see this flag we know the person flying it is not safe to be around. When we see this flag we know the person flying it is a racist. When we see this flag we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do. When we see this flag, we question your intelligence. We know to avoid you. It is a symbol of hatred," the post read.

...Ensuing outrage over the Facebook post elicited a public response from Utah NAACP and Governor Spencer Cox....

(Excerpt) Read more at msn.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Utah
KEYWORDS: blackkk; blacklivesmatter; blm; commies; facebook; flag; lexscott; maga2024; marxist; maryellencagnassola; mediawingofthednc; naacp; newsweek; partisanmediashill; partisanmediashills; utah
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-53 next last
To: pfflier

The Left’s long term goal is the elimination or at least the marginalization of Old Glory. There is even a multicolored flag which appears to be a knockoff from the LBGTQ rainbow flag. I wouldn’t be surprised if such a flag is first raised in the most leftist places like San Francisco, Seattle, New York, etc., in lieu of the Stars and Stripes. Revolutions replace flags that represented the old regime with their own. Examples: France in 1789, Russia in 1917, China in 1949, South Africa in 1994. Perhaps Biden won’t go so far, but his successor may.


21 posted on 08/09/2021 8:33:58 PM PDT by Wallace T.
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: blueplum
"...a Facebook post in the BLM Utah Chapter group"

Not as badass as the Utah Chapter of the Flying Elvises:

It's late. I post weird things when I'm sleepy.

22 posted on 08/09/2021 8:34:45 PM PDT by PLMerite ("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

Racist view everything through the prism of race. Non racists, like most freeper’s I’m sure, are color blind to race and only judge on the content of a person’s character.


23 posted on 08/09/2021 8:36:16 PM PDT by Boomer (Leftists/Leftism ruins everything it touches. Leftism is a toxic moral pestilence.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

24 posted on 08/09/2021 8:37:16 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

How much longer will it take for people of both races to finally realize that they cannot live peacefully together?

This dysfunctional marriage never worked, doesn’t work and will never work.

Let each side go their own separate ways and be in control of their own destinies.


25 posted on 08/09/2021 8:41:47 PM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you care! Guilting you is how they control you. )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All

I’m betting that ‘flood of death threats’ was self-generated.


26 posted on 08/09/2021 8:49:23 PM PDT by LegendHasIt
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: aquila48

the thing is, we can live peacefully together. But then you let immigration go wild and introduce foreign, and racist, idealologies. This gal is a Minnie Mandela type idiot. I’m sure she’s delighted about the violence towards whites and India’ians in SoAf.


27 posted on 08/09/2021 9:05:32 PM PDT by blueplum ("...this moment is your moment: it belongs to you... " President Donald J. Trump, Jan 20, 2017) )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

Do these folks ever present copies of the threats? There are only so many ways these things can be sent/transmitted to the person.

Were they text messages, DMs, emails, what? And if they are threats, the cops have ways to find out who sent them. Not everyone is so tech savvy as to be able to mask their IP addresses, etc.


28 posted on 08/09/2021 9:25:15 PM PDT by qaz123
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: the OlLine Rebel

Black fascist/racist fantasies and mental illness. Maybe she can move in with Rep. Corrie Bush. “Lex and Corrie” - two sickos from hell.


29 posted on 08/09/2021 9:29:10 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 19 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

Just a Leftist telling us what they feel. Most of us who pay attention aren't surprised.

30 posted on 08/09/2021 9:35:27 PM PDT by rlmorel (Leftists are The Droplet of Sewage in a gallon of ultra-pure clean water.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

“BLM Utah Chapter, which is not connected to Black Lives Matter National”

riiiiiggght


31 posted on 08/09/2021 9:38:26 PM PDT by SendShaqtoIraq ( )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

Nevermind all those flag waving BLACK people who marched in Selma and heard MLK’s I Have a Dream speech.


32 posted on 08/09/2021 9:41:23 PM PDT by Impala64ssa (Virtue signalling is no virtue)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

“under the account for BLM Utah Chapter, which is not connected to Black Lives Matter National...”

Bull Shit. If it’s not connected, they wouldn’t be permitted to use the same name.


33 posted on 08/09/2021 9:48:01 PM PDT by BobL (I shop at Walmart and eat at McDonald's, I just don't tell anyone, like most here.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: All
I’m betting that ‘flood of death threats’ was self-generated.

These so-called "death threats" are undoubtedly of the type,

"If you and your fellow BLM thugs should ever come to my property and attempt to desecrate the Old Glory proudly flying here, I will personally whup your *ss!"

Regards,

34 posted on 08/09/2021 10:45:36 PM PDT by alexander_busek (Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 26 | View Replies]

To: adorno

Umm N Vietnam does not exist anymore, sorry if you are behind the times.


35 posted on 08/09/2021 11:30:13 PM PDT by the_individual2014
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

Would love to see some gold star Mother catch up to her in a dark alley.


36 posted on 08/10/2021 3:14:53 AM PDT by Joe Boucher (Dementia Joe and the Whore, leaders of the Free world.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

Another lie to create racial division.


37 posted on 08/10/2021 3:19:08 AM PDT by RetiredArmy (Free Will. GOD gives you the choice I accept or reject Him! Choose Him. It depends on you.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: utax
I hope wherever she goes she'll manage to find enough food to sustain her

(Do I really need a sarc tag?)

38 posted on 08/10/2021 3:47:10 AM PDT by COBOL2Java (Joe Biden is a squinty-eyed turnip brain)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 18 | View Replies]

To: aquila48
How much longer will it take for people of both races to finally realize that they cannot live peacefully together?

This dysfunctional marriage never worked, doesn't work and will never work.

Let each side go their own separate ways and be in control of their own destinies.

When I call a FReeper a racist, it is usually in jest and I post the little black kid meme eating watermelon.

This post is truly indicative of a sick racist.

You need help.

When you refer to 'each side' it shows your twisted view of the world.

I will pray for you.

39 posted on 08/10/2021 3:58:05 AM PDT by USS Alaska (NUKE ALL MOOSELIMB TERRORISTS, NOW.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 25 | View Replies]

To: blueplum

The reason is almost never the reason


40 posted on 08/10/2021 4:03:35 AM PDT by AppyPappy (How many fingers am I holding up, Winston? )
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first previous 1-2021-4041-53 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
News/Activism
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson