Why the Deliberate Focus on the Confederate Flag is Derailing the Real Conversation About Race in Am
Why the Deliberate Focus on the Confederate Flag is Derailing the Real Conversation About Race in America Do not adjust your screen. That is not the Confederate flag. In 1976, Black attorney Ted Landsmark was speared with the other red, white and blue flag in Boston. Racist rage over school desegregation and busing impaled Landsmark. These white Bostonians harbored anxieties similar to those attributed to suspected South Carolina killer Dylann Storm Roof. Both parties loathed the prospect of Black children being educated alongside whites and rejected nonviolence.But no one blamed the Boston assault on Old Glory. The Confederate flag has been less fortunate.After failures to indict the white killers of Eric Garner, Michael Brown Jr., John Crawford III and untold Black victims, the secessionist battle flag is a convicted racist. For the first time in history, a flagpole is under the bus.By Gus T. Renegade, host of counter-racism science broadcast The Context of White Supremacy READ MORE -- source link
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