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Originally Posted by upallnight
So we are all right with this image of a rioter/insurgent parading around inside the Capitol with a Confederate flag?
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upallnight:
No, not at all.... I feel just as strongly now as I did five and a half years ago when I started this thread with my lengthy post, which I will not repeat here.
January 6, 2021 was a very sad day for the United States of America.
Unfortunately, I now realize that for some people in our country, they are still fighting the Civil War. Reading our country's history, most of the freedoms and advances given to black Americans after the Civil War were effectively reduced or eliminated with the end of the Reconstruction period and the institution of the Jim Crow laws in the South.
In my opinion, the election of President Obama truly outraged many bigoted and racist Americans, countering the false sense that we may have entered a "post-racial society". Well that was a pipe dream! As we have seen over the past 4-5 years with Donald Trump's winking and dog whistles to various, previously marginalized hate groups, that then became more brazenly direct and less veiled, resulting in emboldened these bigots and racists to crawl out from under the rocks they have been hiding and make themselves heard on online chat rooms, blogs and websites. We saw many of those people at Trump's rally's over the past number of years and most frighteningly at the mob march on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, These people use the Confederate Battle Flag as an icon for their hatred of anyone who does not look like them: who is not white.... Therefore, these people need to be arrested and charged with the crimes they committed and let a judge and jury determine their guilt and if found guilty, have an appropriate fine and sentence imposed upon them for their bad choices and actions.
AVB-AMG