Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIt's time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. Its lingering still out there.. For this chosen group, violence is the answer. 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. It's a symbol of how successfully the Civil War has been misremembered so that "heritage" and "hate" could be disentangled from each other. From a Middle Eastern perspective, this is all appallingly familiar.". Talia Lavinis a freelance writer whose work has appeared in The Washington Post, GQ, The Village Voice, The New Republic and many more publications. 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. Expect more of it.. Optimistic takes began to roll out: The world was changing, policing reforming. Inscribe beneath it the years 1861-2015. After the Supreme Court's decision in Brown v. Board of Education, white Southerners used the Confederate flag to intimidate civil rights activists and demonstrate states' willingness to protect segregation at all costs. To wait longer would be a crime. Ira Isonhood adjusts the flag pole in the backyard of his home in Copiah County, Mississippi. In the 1960's civil rights movement, division existed between black leaders who sought to use peaceful protest to effect change (most notably pastor Martin Luther King, Jr.) and those, like the. It means they will execute their enemies. Correction: An earlier version of this article said Alabama's state flag includes the Confederate flag. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. Reporting by Jack Goodman, Christopher Giles, Olga Robinson and Shayan Sardarizadeh. After she sat on a jury that condemned a man to death, she now campaigns for alternatives to execution and stars in a new documentary about her experience. And make no mistake: the GOP has become the party of political violence. Removing it requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature. Agitated at the news that yet another armed agent of the state has killed a member of the public, protesters object. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIts time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. By the mid-20th century, the flag symbolized white resistance to ending segregation laws. History teaches us that if we dont, someone else will. Violence is Golden by Jack Donovan, Most will see the above admonition and others like it and automatically relate it to the malevolence of those who wish to do nothing more than tear this world apart. There would not have been a war over tariffs.. Once such a process has begun, and those forces are unleashed, it is not easy to stop. Cries for forgiveness and moans of helplessness will fill their dwellings. What matters is this, they will fear the sword and the bearded ones wielding it. So, I say to you again, simply I would bring fear and death to them all!. They operate as islands, their derision for the populace they purportedly protect on full display. The post-war white south embraced the Confederate battle flag, making it their sentimental symbol of the lost cause of the war. Were not a violent organization. The current cycle of protests is a grotesque and familiar protocol, shaped over the past years since the killing of Michael Brown in 2014. As Hong Kong police denied the protesters a permit to march, they attacked the crowd despite its peaceful nature, using tear gas and rubber bullets to disperse them. ''I don't believe [Confederate] service, however distinguished, needs to be commemorated in a way that offends, that deeply hurts, people whose ancestors were once denied their freedom by my ancestors,'' McCain said. He also hosts a weekly podcast,The Chauncey DeVega Show. 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. I love peace more than life. The only thing that has changed is how the rest of the country sees the cause it represents. For four years have I waited, hoped and prayed for the dark clouds to break, and for a restoration of our former sunshine. I later relay Lindys questions to Genesis Be, a 31-year-old hip-hop artist, public speaker and anti-Confederate flag activist from Biloxi. She immediately brings up Roof. Their hands would tremble, fearing that their actions have brought upon them the wrath of God. South Carolina Gov. In 1994, the legislature seriously considered a compromise, but it later fell apart. They release a curt statement in grammar designed to deflect responsibility (officer-involved shooting; incident). Be, who discusses the flag respectfully with friends who like it, challenges Massey, Hentz and others to probe deeper. The SCV might fly the flag, but we dont associate with them. In response, the Ku Klux Klan surged. Other official flags were also displayed during the Nazi regime. Potter was the president of the local police union . 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. ", Somewhat puzzlingly, in the same report that featured the anti-Truman flag buyer in New Jersey, Life wrote off the flag's popularity as a fad. The only thing that has changed is how the rest of the country sees the cause it represents. Its message had just become less respectable. The flag, which has gone on to earn its creators company, Thin Blue Line USA, a healthy living selling related merchandise, literalizes this vision: a U.S. flag in a stark photonegative scheme, save for a broad line of blue. By 1865, the Civil War had morphed into a war against slaverythe cornerstone of Confederate society. We accept credit card, Apple Pay, and Her sister would exchange clothes with a black friend, she says. The treatment is removal of exposure. The Ku Klux Klan flew it at lynching parties and angry mobs waved it outside public schools as black children enrolled; in front of white segregation academies and next to leering dogs unleashed on black protesters wanting the right to vote. (Today, its supporters say the KKK co-opted it.). 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. The war really was about slavery, and they didnt hide it then, I say as she listens intently. Larry McCluney Jr teaches history to mostly black high school and college students in Greenwood, Mississippi. Surely the flags defenders will proffer other, muddier, interpretations which allow them the luxury of looking away. Not the main stream core freedoms that our country was founded on, rather the diminutive pieces of thread that weave together to form the very fabric that holds our great nation together. He repeats SCVs selective semantics with precision: the south seceded over states rights to financial independence; the north and Abraham Lincoln werent against slavery at the outset; northern tariffs were killing the south; few southerners and soldiers owned humans; slavery was fading anyway; and it wasnt about white supremacy. How much more do we need to do?. "It is becoming the symbol of the white race and the cause of the white people. 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. This group understands that not all people can be negotiated with and at then end of the day, human nature is primal. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. Then it became a symbol of resistance to black civil rights leaders and to the federal government that was finally trying to enforce the law of the land. Ongoing inequities, Be reminds, are bolstered by a kinder, gentler version of Confederate history rewritten after the south lost the civil war and its rights to maintain and extend slavery. Photograph: Kate Medley, Pride and prejudice? Their mentality is flag-draped, all noblesse oblige and wounded besiegement, but their actions are those of armies accountable only to their own leadership. Until that kid went in that church in Charleston, people never thought anything about the Confederate or Mississippi flag, she says. antisocial and other anti-human behavior on a national scale. 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. Few filmmakers can resist the thrill of the rocket's red glare and the spectacle of death; the violence is simply too exciting. 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. Reconstruction was not a failed attempt at racial equality, but a dangerous mistake. The flying of the flag is not only a reaction to those protesting police after Officer Kim Potter shot and killed 20-year-old Daunte Wright. His favorite Mississippi history book is from 1900. By 1861, the south was demanding slavery expansion into western territories, which Lincolns Black Republicans adamantly opposed. Gentlemanly Kevin Davis is surprised when we show up at his large white antebellum-style house in Simpson County. The flag was based on the saltire, a common flag symbol sometimes called the Southern cross. My prayers have proved as idle as my hopes. A little more than a week before the jury delivered its verdict in the trial of former Minneapolis police Officer Derek Chauvin for the murder of George Floyd, and about 10 miles from the Hennepin County Government Center where Chauvin sat on trial, 20-year-old Daunte Wright was fatally shot by an officer during a traffic stop. It turned into one big heckuva mess. In practice, fascism is given life and takes corporeal form through itsfollowers, with each one being a potential carrier of the pathology. It's alarming because there is probably an equal number of guys on there talking about the civil war plans and actively using Tik Tok to recruit these military and ex-military members. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. IE 11 is not supported. Cowardice, too, is heritage. Even as the institution had shrunk outside the south for a century, its riches continued to drive the US economy, including Wall Street and early capitalism, up to the 1860s. . Related Topics I would not be up around the last flag making a chain gang to keep somebody from taking it down, Davis says. The flag not gon change the hate., Stuart blames detractors. No one but Republicans themselves can cure it. Trump and his followers were loud, exuberant and enthusiastic on Jan. 6. Her friend Evangela Hentz, who is black, opens the passenger door, and we all run through the rain to a pavilion. The Confederate flag began enjoying unprecedented national popularity and became a cultural symbol after World War II, just as the federal government began trying to make good on its Reconstruction-era civil rights promises. Asmediacritic Eric Boehlertrecently noted,the liberal opinion site Living Blue in Texas is sounding the alarm about the specific meaning of the black flag and the Republican-fascistssupport for terrorism and other political violence. 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. But it's not a coincidence that white Southerners were embracing the Confederate battle flag just as the South's system of violently enforced white supremacy was under its first real threat since Reconstruction. Im a pointblank person. Its a piece of our heritage that should be left there to honor sacrifices, Davis says in a cozy parlor, adding that most soldiers were dirt-poor farmers with no slaves. When her husband came later, the storekeeper admonished him in front of young Ira. Slavery was an issue, but not the cause, the teacher tells me. There are trashy white people and trashy black people., SCV is not racist or violent, he says. A New Jersey man bought a Confederate flag to oppose the Truman administration in 1951. Kevin Davis sits on the tailgate of his truck in Simpson County, Mississippi. And luckily for all of the others, it is! During an interview with Scientific American magazine, Dr. Bandy Lee, the principal editor of the 2017 bestseller"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," explained how a mentally pathological leader can "infect"hisfollowers and perhaps even an entire nation: I have outlined two major emotional drives: narcissistic symbiosis and shared psychosis. 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. We try to help people.. 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. (Kean Collection via Getty Images). Chauncey can be followed onTwitterandFacebook. Just a point of history Prior to Roofs massacre, the South Carolina NAACP had waged a 15-year boycott against the state for its [Confederate] flag display, Johnson says. In a protest against police violence, police are counterprotesters, and it is first and foremost the police who riot, engaging in orgies of violence against their perceived enemies. If you dont breathe life into something, it will die, Massey adds. Witness heretofore our wealth and power; witness their elevation and enlightenment above their race elsewhere. The Christian flag? she asks. And while there's always been a strain of militancy on the American right and left fringes, there is something unmistakably new, and profoundly alarming, about the casual, florid, and sadistic. In this way they honor their ancestors. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. 100% Cotton. And I would do all this with just few men; hand picked and war hardened. Johnson would not censor individual ownership or display of Confederate regalia but also not continue official approval to historic symbols of racial violence and oppression. Theyre not afraid of being filmed, because being filmed simply reinforces the central theme: If you come to protest, an action that explicitly challenges the order and my place in it, this is the consequence. The NAACP respects the constitutional, first amendment right for private citizens to maintain symbols and monuments on private property, he says. Our disgust for the dastardly wretch can scarcely be uttered, fumed a former governor of South Carolina, the state where secession began. We just didnt believe in racism. The history teacher could handle it if the state flag changed, though. Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. According to the people on TikTok and the Sun (British tabloid), the . The first cut of the film also showed Lindy and husband, Ira Isonhood, flying the Confederate battle flag on a 20ft pole in the backyard of one of their homes. As recently as 2011, Haley dismissed concerns about the flag, saying she thought the state had moved on. One mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. Larry McCluney Jrs home office. Enjoy.. 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 flag that Dylann Roof embraced, which many South Carolinians embrace, endorses the violence he committed. That was horrific to my organization (SCV) when that took place.. Pipes fill a glass case, and we avoid the curtained adult room. In our world there lives a relativity small group of guardians who not only stand ready to do violence on the behalf of others, but actually wait anxiously for the opportunity. 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. Millions turn to Vox to educate themselves, their family, and their friends about whats happening in the world around them, and to learn about things that spark their curiosity. They are not the same thing. It's this kind of use of the Confederate flag that has made it a cultural marker, shorthand not just for the Confederacy but for a specific strain of white Southern culture. The streets fill with bodies and stinging, painful clouds. For America to counteract the deep underlying illness that has made Trumpism possiblewill require a long-term cultural and moral reckoning. Mobs fighting to protect segregated schools wore Confederate flags in Little Rock and New Orleans and Austin and Birmingham. Davis, 47, also believes the institution might have died out due to modernization if they were able to compromise another 20 years. You wont find it at Wal*Mart, a large sign proclaims, reminding shoppers that the retailer dropped Confederate merchandise within a week of Roofs massacre. All rights reserved. Robert E. Lees armies took special care to enslave free blacks during their Northern campaign. Have loved the Union beyond expression. The Confederacy itself was founded to preserve slavery and promote white supremacy (see, for example, : "Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery the greatest material interest of the world," or the. 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. And that amnesia came at the expense of black Americans. And when Southerners at the time said the flag represented their culture, they made it very clear whose culture they meant: "It means the Southern cause," Roy Harris, a legendary Georgia politician, said in 1951, according to Coski's book. As the practice waned up north, white men rushed to the south, bringing slaves. The Confederate flag controversy: What does the flag mean today? I just had to go cut a black boy down off that hanging tree and take him to his mama.. 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. The leader, hungry for adulation to compensate for an inner lack of self-worth, projects grandiose omnipotence while the followers, rendered needy by societal stress or developmental injury, yearn for a parental figure. Add to cart Add to WatchlistUnwatch Watch list is full Our ancestors fought under that flag, Barnes says. They understand that after all else fails and evil overwhelms the powers of the pen, it is they that will be called upon. Lindy, now 66, has shifted her stance on the death penalty. Put it in a museum. Then they tell people to message them or where to find them on Telegram. Nobody, my whole town, she says. Surely the flags defenders will proffer other, muddier, interpretations which allow them the luxury of looking away. It was there when our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, were struggling to feed their six, eight, 10 kids. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. At the moment, it is a Republican disease. Directed by Clint Eastwood; written by William Broyles Jr. and Paul Haggis, based on the book by James Bradley with Ron Powers; director of photography, Tom Stern; edited by Joel Cox; music by Mr.. When such wounded individuals are given positions of power, they arouse similar pathology in the population that creates a "lock and key" relationship. As red flags show up more and more over time, you'll start noticing patterns of behavior. An entire people are poorer for his action. But the flag's meaning was never really innocuous. Thomasa Massey, 49, jumps out of her car at Pearl Park in a majority-white Jackson suburb wearing a T-shirt with Confederate butterflies she designed with Pride, Not Prejudice underneath. 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Some Southerners argued that white supremacists who waved the flag as they violently attacked civil rights activists were perverting the flag's true meaning. Moving it or removing it requires a two-thirds majority vote. Their beliefs will be turned upside down as entire units are brought down without mercy as if God himself smite them. "We are not the worlds police;" "The standards of conduct are different in the Middle, This is an excerpt from Violence of Action: The Untold Stories of the 75th Ranger. 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. A Confederate flag at an anti-integration rally in Little Rock in 1959. Cowardice, too, is heritage. 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. His own ancestors sacrifice is paramount. Until they do, the violence of the right is only going to keep swelling and crashing. 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. The civil rights movement didn't change the flag's meaning it simply made the hate underlying the heritage more explicit. A year of protest against police violence, and brutal counterprotest by the police in the name of public order, had reportedly little impact on a system of policing built around a core of violence. Its chemical weapons are banned from theaters of war but available for promiscuous use among the populace. Look at whats happening to our statues! he says. 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. Embrace violence. ", 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, more than 50 percent of Trump supporters want "red states" to secede from the Union, During an interview with Scientific American magazine, Dr. Bandy Lee, the principal editor of the 2017 bestseller"The Dangerous Case of Donald Trump," explained. As a white woman who still . It is a way of life. That the Confederate flag is the symbol of of white supremacists is evidenced by the very words of those who birthed it: Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its corner-stone 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. Save your lovely souls. By the time Mississippi embedded it into its new state flag in. All hope for peace is dead. This article first appeared in The Havok Journal on 27 August, 2014. As historian John Coski writes in, Southerners weren't shy about enlisting the design in the cause of white supremacy. 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? All Rights Reserved. The streets were filled with the opaque greenish mist of chemical weaponry, hanging in stinging clouds that made residents in neighboring apartments cough. The flag of the Thin Blue Line rises and rises. I dont think the black people around here care, Lindy says. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and culture, s time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. Move forward. Move forward. Many people were taught certain things.. When Embrace first put the signs up in its offices, Bement said the organization received pushback from local law enforcement, who argued the signs were anti-law enforcement. I go to see and share the bitter end , I have ever held the South were right. History teaches us that if we don. They declare a "safe space," prohibit firearms and welcome people who . She supports Mississippians right to keep it as is. History teaches us that if we don't, someone else will." Youre not bad with money. By the morning, protesters with signs and chants had dispersed, leaving the Thin Blue Line flag to fly alone in a hazy sky. The biggest message they have been sending out is, "it's time" or "the time is now." Mississippi had 436,631, the most in the nation and 55% of the states population. Effie, its just been a bad day, the lawman said to his sister, as the six-year-old listened. Oops. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. Its hoisting marked the end of a night of violently suppressed protests of the killing of the 20-year-old, a young Black father who had been pulled over, his mother said, because police had seen air fresheners dangling from his rearview mirror and had been shot in the chest by veteran Officer Kim Potter, former president of the citys police union. 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. Despite decades of efforts to renovate history, Mississippis Declaration of Secession still begins by clarifying that the state left the union in 1861 for a cause thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery, adding for posterity that none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun that enables cotton to flourish. 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