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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She’s too busy to bother with that......they be out lookin’ for the right kind of black folk’s rights!
Maybe O’malley has a few comments about how “Some” black lives matter.
#blacklivesmatter
Why run from hecklers? Shoot them.
The loss of a free mind lessens us all.
I’m not holding my breath, as far as I know there’s not even been any movement on the murder of Jessica Chambers.
Interesting. Bump to read later.
He could have run for president, with that pedigree (other than the flag support). It worked for Hussein.
They can’t say the truth and admit their true parameters of which lives matter-not only just black lives, but black lives who hewed, in deed if not word, to the leftist POV.
Depends on the determination and what and which authority takes the prosecution. From what’s being reported here and elswhere it sure sounds like “murder 1”. But what and who does the prosecution will make the difference..
If it’s the Fed where in the Roof’s case he leaves a manifesto citing the series of murders and injuries caused by black youths resulting from the Zimmerman trial. The regime puts the inspiration on the murders because of Roof’s still picture in his face book page of the Confederate Battle Flag. When blacks were claiming retribution inspired by inflamatory reporting of the “cold blooded murder of Trevon Martin because he’s black”. Which was being circulated during the Zimmerman trial with the help or silence to the facts by the regime. You know that “murder 1” ain’t going nowhere .
I looked him up, turns out he was one of those quintessentially one of a kind types America used to be known for producing. The murder of this man kind of kills off more than this man. America from its earliest days was sanctuary to colorful oddballs who ran afoul of the powers that be in other places over issues of freedom. The symbolism is strong with this one.
Precisely. The words “heckler” and “prankster” have been used to dilute serious criminal activity.
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Free Blacks were part of the resistance in occupied New Orleans. Yes, Blacks fought for the South.
Betcha that’s one black life that don’t matter to Eric the Scolder.
The troublemaker was found in the road; dead.
has this story made the national news? It would if it were a gay activist run off the road by hecklers.
This wasn’t ‘’heckling’’. They were run off the road.
Sundance has a piece up at the Conservative Treehouse
Brothas, ACORN, DOJ, IRS, teachers, preachers and queers.
The Niggas thought he was an Uncle Tom and they could not have that. I mean we cannot have black people acting White. So they did what they normally do in the hood and this is the result.
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