[My father] was prejudiced, Ira says. Cries for forgiveness and moans of helplessness will fill their dwellings. He is right, but only to a point. "If displaying the flag of the Confederate States of America is a fad, it is one of the longest-lived fads in history, lasting some 90 years," one sniffed in a letter to Life. Who are their enemies? On a daily basis Fox News and other elements of the right-wing disinformation propaganda machine use stochastic terrorism and other techniques to radicalize their audience into committing acts of political violence. Furor in the streets has given way to tense negotiations over municipal budgets, but despite a few modest efforts to curb police budgets and reassign nonviolent duties to other city departments, the overall dynamic, across a country riven by state violence, has remained largely static. This article first appeared in The Havok Journal on 27 August, 2014. document.getElementById( "ak_js_2" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); document.getElementById( "ak_js_3" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Copyright 2023 The Havok Journal. The writer Patrick Wyman has hypothesized that the flagrancy of police violence against protesters is part of a strategy of exemplary violence, akin to the outsize and grotesque revenges inflicted on participants in medieval peasants rebellions. Ive been there for her, Massey, the childs godmother, says. Davis is circumspect on the complicated history: I can say it was wrong, and I hope I wouldnt have participated in (slavery), but how can we know for sure?. But he was still a product of his time. When the white supremacist John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago, Booths fellow travelers did all they could to disassociate themselves. When such wounded individuals are given positions of power, they arouse similar pathology in the population that creates a "lock and key" relationship. White mobs at the University of Alabama carried Confederate flags when they threw rocks at Autherine Lucy, the university's first black student, before the university decided to expel her rather than protect her. The streets fill with bodies and stinging, painful clouds. After driving north along the lonely stretch of Highway 49 through Delta plantation lands, we end up in Larry McCluney Jrs attic in Greenwood. Like other vestiges of the Confederacy, the flag outlived the Civil War. He also hosts a weekly podcast,The Chauncey DeVega Show. That post,"Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning on Killing You? But one mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. When the white supremacist John Wilkes Booth assassinated Abraham Lincoln 150 years ago, Booths fellow travelers, of the Great Emancipator was deplorable. Jefferson Davis, that it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune to the South, and angrily denied rumors that he had, The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? After last week's racially motivated slaying of nine African Americans in a South Carolina church, the flag has become a target for those who consider it a symbol of hatred, a strident reminder. And I would do all this with just few men; hand picked and war hardened. Original reporting and incisive analysis, direct from the Guardian every morning, Roslyn Stuart is an employee at Flag Heads in Seminary, Mississippi. And I was one of several plaintiffs in a lawsuit against Mississippi in 1993 to have the flag taken down. The SCV intervened in that lawsuit and won. Youre not bad with money. IE 11 is not supported. Rather than thinking that they ought to be chastened by being caught on tape beating, tear-gassing, and pepper-spraying protesters, perhaps doing all this in full view of the public is the point, Wyman wrote in a column addressing the war scenes in American streets surrounding the initial wave of Floyd protests. Ultimately, Donald Trump, like other fascist and authoritarian leaders, is, ------------------------------------------, Trump's rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge, stochastic terrorism and other techniques to radicalize their audience into committing acts of political violence, theDemocratic Party and the political and news media classin general have remained in denial, and largely passive in response, "Are Your Republican Neighbors Planning on Killing You? Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Move forward. To many white people in the south and beyond, the Confederate flag is a sign of historic pride and defiance to whatever is currently called liberalism; to most black Americans, the flag stands for white supremacy and racial violence. In 2000, the legislature reached a compromise after 50,000 people marched to demand the flag be taken down and the NAACP declared a boycott. But that reverence now stops at the capitol grounds. Alabama Governor George Wallace who promised to fight for "segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever" began flying the Confederate flag when Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy came to Alabama in 1963 to discuss integrating the state's universities. Most of the soldiers were young a fifth were under 18 and few owned any of the 4 million slaves in the US. Reader support helps us keep our explainers free for all. (True, but usually for their masters. That use of the flag is the crux of the "heritage, not hate" argument: that the Confederate flag is simply about honoring the South's past, its dead, and its culture. Will you support Voxs explanatory journalism? History teaches us that if we don. Haley nodded to supporters of the flag in her speech, saying that for many, the flag was "a way to honor ancestors who came to the service of their state during the time of conflict. Visitors to Charleston have long been treated to South Carolinas attempt to clean its history and depict its secession as something other than a war to guarantee the enslavement of the majority of its residents. I just had to go cut a black boy down off that hanging tree and take him to his mama.. Its not whites that are the racists; its mostly the blacks What it boils down to is black people are just trying to overrule us.. The week that followed Martin Luther King Jr.s assassination was revolutionaryso why was it nearly forgotten? The Confederate flags defenders often claim it represents heritage not hate. I agreethe heritage of white supremacy was not so much birthed by hate as by the impulse toward plunder. That flag featured horizontal and vertical black bands intersected by the Prussian eagle. Put it in a museum. That was horrific to my organization (SCV) when that took place.. Anything less, and the disease of American fascism will only go dormant until it is resurrected again perhaps in amore dangerous and virulent form. Pretty much any non-Conservative. Other official flags were also displayed during the Nazi regime. The Americans who fly the Confederate flag. The history, though, is clear: from the Civil War through the civil rights movement, the flag has always been about white supremacy. Across the U.S., a militarized police force and the National Guard prepared to do what they had done so often in the face of ongoing uprisings against police violence: They prepared to brutalize their critics with every weapon they had. Fascism is not asimple machine with an on-and-off switch. The Havok Journal welcomes re-posting of our original content as long as it is done in compliance with our Terms of Use. Im a pointblank person. Barnes has black friends, he says, and points out that African Americans use the N-word. Ira is in the backyard posing for pictures in front of his Confederate flag. Protesters hold up umbrellas and American flags in the face of advancing riot police in the district of Yuen Long on July 27, 2019, in Hong Kong (Laurel Chor/Getty Images). Embrace Violence Two simple words, that when together, build the foundation for all that we know. In 1863, the editor of the Southern Literary Messenger wrote that the flag's Southern cross pointed to "the destiny of the Southern master and his African slave" the Confederacy's hoped-for expansion of slavery into Latin America. However, to a very select few, its much much more. Moving it or removing it requires a two-thirds majority vote. Yet, Heaven knows, no one would be willing to do more for the negro race than I, could I but see a way to still better their condition. Last night, Dylann Roof walked into a Charleston church, sat for an hour, and then killed nine people. The debate reignited in 2015 after Dylann Roof killed nine black people in a church in Charleston, South Carolina. Insecure, frightened men (and the occasional woman) participating in fascist violence find a sense of agency, of individual power and meaning, a sort of orgasmic release from a life of ordinariness and political impotence. By the time Mississippi embedded it into its new state flag in 1894, the flag was used to both honor the Confederate dead as well as a romanticized version of the wars purpose. So, why are they doing this. Sign up to receive email updates daily and to hear what's going on with us! Two supporters are seen wearing orholding Kek Flags, an alt-right symbol. They believe that Joe Biden has declared a civil war on them by mandating that employers with over 100 employees and the military have vaccinations. They are protected by "law enforcement officers bill of rights" laws in more than a dozen states, which cushion them from the legal fallout of felonies and abuses; by the egregious doctrine of qualified immunity, which shields them from lawsuits against constitutional rights violations; by unions that embrace without qualification the worst offenders in police forces and exercise considerable power over municipal governments with both flush finances and the implicit threat of a heavily armed and punitive membership. "In the first phase, tension builds and a . Lindy has thought about our first conversation overnight and wants to understand why I do not support the flag. Mobs fighting to protect segregated schools wore Confederate flags in Little Rock and New Orleans and Austin and Birmingham. They're angry. Kevin Davis sits on the tailgate of his truck in Simpson County, Mississippi. This group understands that not all people can be negotiated with and at then end of the day, human nature is primal. According to Jacob, the blue line both divides and saves: It separates the black stripes representing civilians above it from the black stripes below it, which represent criminals, a distinct category from people worthy of protection. April 21, 202111:12. In fact, police violence by Minneapolis law enforcement increased substantially following the 2020 murder of Floyd. Effie, its just been a bad day, the lawman said to his sister, as the six-year-old listened. Lindy, now 66, has shifted her stance on the death penalty. In practice, fascism is given life and takes corporeal form through itsfollowers, with each one being a potential carrier of the pathology. She is the author of the recent book "Culture Warlords: My Journey Into the Dark Web of White Supremacy.". A New York Timeseditorial published two days after four girls were killed in the bombing of the 16th Street Baptist Church claimed segregationists were committing "desecration" of the Confederate symbol. . The same Georgia state legislature that considered closing the state's schools rather than integrating them also changed the state flag to include the Confederate symbol. When Southern states gave the flags pride of place in their capitols, it was to signal support for segregation. The Confederate flag was adopted to represent a short-lived rebellion to extend and protect white supremacy and black slavery. White folks can be that, too. Villain though he was, Booth was a man who understood the logical conclusion of Confederate rhetoric: Right or wrong. At first, white Southerners mostly displayed it at Civil War cemeteries and at memorials and veterans' reunions. Sign up for the But Lee claimed the assassination of the Great Emancipator was deplorable. Jefferson Davis believed that it could not be regarded otherwise than as a great misfortune to the South, and angrily denied rumors that he had greeted the news with exultation. that the flag's Southern cross pointed to "the destiny of the Southern master and his African slave" the Confederacy's hoped-for expansion of slavery into Latin America. Lindy and Ira Isonhood walk along Deer Hollow, their property in Copiah County, Mississippi. The Los Angeles Police Department prepared en masse for protest, should Chauvin be acquitted, as did their colleagues in the New York Police Department across the country. Black American flags are the flags that mean "no quarter shall be given." Moral cowardice requires choice and action. Many people were taught certain things.. (Kean Collection via Getty Images). Its a symbol of our state; its who we are., She continues: Northern people were down here trying to burn all our stuff true; the Yankees torched Jackson three times and we were trying to stop them They didnt think it was right we had slaves. There are plenty of big bangs in "Flags of Our Fathers," but because . Their sleep will be interrupted by every sound as they fear our presence. https://t.co/TVeEIOFoo1 pic.twitter.com/zuOU7HJ87S. Its not us thats racial; its them thats racial. It is a way of life. President Truman had vowed to do more to promote civil rights, integrating the military and telling the NAACP that civil rights could not wait. The flag even became popular in the North: a man purchasing the flag in New Jersey told Life he was doing it to oppose Truman. Thirteen of his ancestors fought for the south, but most didnt own slaves. They are not the same thing. We know about our family, their sacrifices, he says of his 20 ancestors who fought for the Confederacy. To me, the flag is not a racist thing. Robert E. Lees armies took special care to enslave free blacks during their Northern campaign. The Confederacy itself was founded to preserve slavery and promote white supremacy (see, for example, Mississippi's declaration of secession: "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery the greatest material interest of the world," or the speech from the Confederacy's vice president that declared the Confederacy's cornerstone "rests upon the great truth that the Negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery subordination to the superior race is his natural and normal condition"). An entire people are poorer for his action. The protests, he felt, lacked reverence for the police and were awash in animus against them. While it includes the saltire, or Southern Cross, it never included the full battle flag. The war became a national tragedy, not a just cause. And luckily for all of the others, it is! No one but Republicans themselves can cure it. And from the moment the design of its best-known flag was proposed, some Southerners began imbuing it with the symbolism of their cause. In his attic, McCluney downplays slavery ownership saying elite planters, not soldiers, owned most slaves. "The Confederate flag stands for slavery and human degradation. The systemic problem remains. Fascism is a highly virulent social disease that usually destroys the host body but not before spreading the disease to many other people. In September,. By 1861, the south was demanding slavery expansion into western territories, which Lincolns Black Republicans adamantly opposed. The Confederate battle flag was one of several flags used during the Civil War. The only thing that has changed is how the rest of the country sees the cause it represents. The third was discarded because the white got dirty easily and could resemble a flag of surrender. Open a museum?, Ive never heard of an apology from the Klan in Franklin County for harassing and assaulting my family while flying that flag. I have lived among it most of my life, and have seen less harsh treatment from master to man than I have beheld in the North from father to son. Have loved the Union beyond expression. I love peace more than life. So she asked for a new driver and got one. All rights reserved. She supports Mississippians right to keep it as is. Is it their feelings? She wonders why the flag is once again becoming a big deal. Nonetheless, the police continue to operate under layers of legal impunity and institutional protection that vastly overshadow the rights of the citizens they brutalize, murder or assault. After I mention that Mississippi outlawed freeing slaves in 1857, he said that the south wouldnt have seceded if the federal government had allowed (white, male) voters to decide slavery per state or territory. And looking upon African Slavery from the same stand-point held by the noble framers of our constitution. NFQ Embrace Violence Flag NFQ Embrace Violence Flag Item Information Condition: New without tagsNew without tags Price: US $25.00 NFQ Embrace Violence Flag Sign in to check outCheck out as guest Adding to your cart The item you've selected was not added to your cart. The flags history is fraught and complicated, as was the bloody civil war that erupted in 1861 between the US south where Americas slave trade had relocated and expanded by the mid-1800s and the north. Her sister would exchange clothes with a black friend, she says. Editors Note: The flag hasn't come down just yet. The Confederate flag played a big, big part in our history, Ira says. Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. 661 likes. Removing it requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature. Save your lovely souls. Were not a violent organization. We are stopping by homes with flags, but owners keep pointing us on down the road to him. Those who object are subject to exemplary violence. It's an old truismthatthe "real bad men" (and bad women) "move in silence and violence." They are met by massed and prepared force. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. It was not an unusual number of new cases for the department's eight-member gun violence restraining order unit, which Brooker oversees. As historian John Coski writes in The Confederate Battle Flag: America's Most Embattled Emblem, Southerners weren't shy about enlisting the design in the cause of white supremacy. As a white woman who still . To wait longer would be a crime. Patriot Front is a Texas-based white supremacist group led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau. It flew for all colors, black, white, whatever, she says. It looks like they reduced use of force for a few weeks after killing George Floyd and then *increased* police violence substantially. Everyone should have the right to purchase and display symbols for themselves on private property, but [not force the flag to] represent all citizens of any particular community, Johnson says, because they dont. Demands for change in American policing have outstripped the 2010s ethos of reform, which for years involved providing more and more resources to bloated police departments: for training that has proved ineffective, body cameras that can and do serve as aids in crafting meretricious narratives, for consent decrees in cities with particularly egregious police regimes that wind up protecting departments more than curbing their atrocities. And the new story was more flattering to the South. "It is becoming the symbol of the white race and the cause of the white people. Watch: Crowd chants "na na na na hey hey hey goodbye" as the Confederate flag falls in SC, The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy and it always has, For now, the one thing Congress seems to agree upon is China, How the Israeli settler rampage was emboldened by the new far-right government, We dont need to know how this pandemic started to stop the next one, You probably wont get any student loan relief, thanks to a GOP-controlled Supreme Court, Ron DeSantiss war on woke in Florida schools, explained. ), Schools are not teaching history the right way, he says. Nikki Haley spoke of unity. Its not about hatred. He adds that blacks fought for the south, too. When her husband came later, the storekeeper admonished him in front of young Ira. By the civil war, cotton investment had made New York City the countrys financial center due to receiving up to 40% of all cotton revenues, representing $200m in annual trade with the south. On Sunday, at a rally in Colorado, Mr. Trump proudly held up a rainbow flag with the words "LGBT for Trump" written on it to a cheering crowd of thousands. The Confederate flag stands for bloodshed and segregation.". In the interest of reuniting white Americans, the narrative around the Civil War changed in its aftermath. She worries that young people now think the flag stands for the KKK. However you interpret these videos posted byTrump followers and otherneofascists which couldbe mainly performative it is clearly true that the Americanright isincreasingly willing to accept or condoneviolence as a means of expanding and protecting their social and political power. The flag could easily be honored or studied in museums, he adds. In a recent speech tothe North Carolina Faith and Freedom Coalition's "Salt & Light" conference, Rep. Madison Cawthorn, R-N.C.,issued what sounded like a declaration of war: It is time for the American Christian church to come out of the shadows to say, "No longer are we going to allow our culture to be determined by people who hate the things that we believe in. They are the opposite of the white flag of surrender. McCluney teaches his black students his Confederate history. But I dont believe everyone who likes the flag is racist. It means they will execute their enemies. During an interview withMSNBC'sJoy Reid,terrorism and national security expert Malcolm Nance said that Cawthorn's video"picks up on the themes that are not just coming from the Steve Bannon level and Donald Trump level, they are coming from theRepublican street and that Republican street is armed. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. I dont think the black people around here care, Lindy says. God judge me, not man. They have been fed an entire line which makes them believe that America is no longerAmerica and thatthey no longer want the America that the rest of us, the 60 percent of the country, live in. The National Guard was brought in. If you can put a rebel flag on it, they do: beach towels, BBQ aprons, windshield dice, coasters, flip-flops, polar fleeces, bikinis, umbrellas and more. Although showing guns on Tik Tok is supposed to be against community guidelines, they show lots of videos of their guns, shooting them, wearing them, or sitting on their bed. Here is another choice. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Eventually, they will take the state flag; they will change it. Studies have shown that police dont solve most violent crimes. The 1860 census shows 49% of families in Mississippi one in two owned at least one slave. Theres also a civil war chess set. Surely the flags defenders will proffer other, muddier, interpretations which allow them the luxury of looking away. Most of em dont know what it means, she says. The war really was about slavery, and they didnt hide it then, I say as she listens intently. The SCV is correct, though, that Lincoln did not initially call for emancipation. Studies have shown that police dont solve most violent crimes: Roughly 40 percent of homicide investigations do not result in arrests, and only 33 percent of rape investigations end in an arrest. She immediately brings up Roof. Each day passing as the last, each day taken for granted with little to no thought about how fortunate they really are for having in their lives, those that embrace violence. That is not hate, nor is it racism.". Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIt's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. 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