Activists burn Confederate flag in Baltimore

[MrBates2]

As the controversy surrounding the Confederate battle flag continues around the nation, Baltimore activists gathered in a vacant lot on the Fourth of July to burn one of the banners they said represents slavery and racism.

About a dozen members of the Peoples Power Assembly and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference gathered near Charles Street and North Avenue and circled a small grill that cradled a balled-up battle flag soaked in lighter fluid.

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Maybe they should burn the flags of the west african countries that stole, held, and sold them around the world. Doubt they even know this or what countries were involved. Finding these places on a map is a whole other thing.
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Before they set it on fire, members read portions of Frederick Douglass' 1852 speech, "What, to the American slave, is your Fourth of July?"

Lee Patterson, a member of the assembly, read Douglass' words suggesting that, to a slave, Independence Day reflected "more than all other days in the year, the gross injustice and cruelty to which he is the constant victim. To him, your celebration is a sham."

 

[lovecraft68]

I doubt any of the 'activists' could even describe what that flag looked like if you asked them a few days ago.

Just another excuse to burn something

But good to see the country is going to give the Church killer exactly what he wanted, a war.

 

[BabblingBrooke]

I doubt any of the 'activists' could even describe what that flag looked like if you asked them a few days ago.

Just another excuse to burn something

But good to see the country is going to give the Church killer exactly what he wanted, a war.

Exactly this. I keep thinking the same thing. He wanted to start a race war, and the country (as a whole) is playing right into his hand.

Maybe much of this has been a long time coming, and things are being said that need to be said. Still, I hate for Roof's actions to be the inciting event.

 

[Queersetti]

Maybe they should burn the flags of the west african countries that stole, held, and sold them around the world. Doubt they even know this or what countries were involved. Finding these places on a map is a whole other thing.

What countries were those?

 

[rosco rathbone]

What countries were those?

lol.....

 

[pointless]

god, paranoid white trash and their dreams of race wars. fuck off with that nonsense.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

http://41.media.tumblr.com/0f5ff64add02ef8bc18adba2f484eea1/tumblr_nnhx19S7Mp1shiv3ro1_500.png

 

[JAMESBJOHNSON]

We wont have a race war, we'll get a push back from people who cant care less about the issue but are fed up with people shoving shit down their throats. All the Civil War did was fuck blacks for a whole century afterwards. And the present issue will hurt Democrats, just like the Vietnam War protests hurt them with average Americans. Hillary is fucked when niggers and kids stir shit up.

 

[1sickbastard]

What countries were those?

The Ashanti, the Kongo (not the same as the DRC, but a pre-colonial native African empire) and the Dahomey empires

 

[IrezumiKiss]

The Ashanti, the Kongo (not the same as the DRC, but a pre-colonial native African empire) and the Dahomey empires

Sure those were "countries?"

The knee-jerk-reactionary commenter asked for national flags.

 

[rosco rathbone]

The Ashanti, the Kongo (not the same as the DRC, but a pre-colonial native African empire) and the Dahomey empires

I googled "flag of the Dahomey Empire" and nothing came up.

 

[Busybody]

how bout burning the BLACK PANTHER flag?

or FLAGS of MUSLIMS cuntries where THEY HAVE SLAVERY......TODAY

 

[pointless]

I googled "flag of the Dahomey Empire" and nothing came up.

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Dahomey_flag_1889.svg/750px-Dahomey_flag_1889.svg.png

but they were a kingdom and a vasal state of an actual empire.

yay google!

 

[Queersetti]

The Ashanti, the Kongo (not the same as the DRC, but a pre-colonial native African empire) and the Dahomey empires

Yeah, that's like saying New England was settled by the Saxons, the Picts and the Jutes.

 

[Queersetti]

Sure those were "countries?"

The knee-jerk-reactionary commenter asked for national flags.

Dahomeys sold da homies into slavery!

 

[yossi]

I doubt any of the 'activists' could even describe what that flag looked like if you asked them a few days ago.

That's a silly assumption to make.

 

[pointless]

That's a silly assumption to make.

you spelled "fucking moronic" wrong.

 

[rosco rathbone]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Dahomey_flag_1889.svg/750px-Dahomey_flag_1889.svg.png

but they were a kingdom and a vasal state of an actual empire.

yay google!

"angry internet commentators gathered yesterday in a 7-11 parking lot to burn the elephant banner of the late-nineteenth century Dahomey Empire; which they say represents unfair charges of racism against whites..."

 

[yossi]

you spelled "fucking moronic" wrong.

Goddamn autocorrect.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

Dahomeys sold da homies into slavery!

http://33.media.tumblr.com/6c661b19e35a46c0c031c06276963499/tumblr_nhg9cf9GLr1s2wio8o1_500.gif

 

[Ulaven_Demorte]

Burning any flag, it doesn't matter if it's the Southern Cross, the U.N. Flag, or the United States Flag, is protected by the right to free speech here in the good old US of A.

You know, guaranteed by that pesky little thing called the U.S. Constitution via the First Amendment.

 

[yossi]

"angry internet commentators gathered yesterday in a 7-11 parking lot to burn the elephant banner of the late-nineteenth century Dahomey Empire; which they say represents unfair charges of racism against whites..."

Pauvre Babar.

 

[IrezumiKiss]

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/6f/Dahomey_flag_1889.svg/750px-Dahomey_flag_1889.svg.png

but they were a kingdom and a vasal state of an actual empire.

yay google!

That flag looks like it was done in MS Paint.

What the hell were the Dahomeys doing with anachronistic graphic software technology back then?

 

[Queersetti]

Pauvre Babar.

http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1386922352l/42407.jpg

 

[pointless]

That flag looks like it was done in MS Paint.

What the hell were the Dahomeys doing with anachronistic graphic software technology back then?

i blame the amazons.

wikipedia is fun for finding useless information. thanks silly rightwing moron and your stupid logical fallacy. you gave me something interesting to read this boring sunday morning.