Most of em dont know what it means, she says. document.getElementById( "ak_js_1" ).setAttribute( "value", ( new Date() ).getTime() ); Violence is the gold standard, the reserve that guarantees order. 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. The group split from Vanguard America (VA) in late August 2017, several months after VA participated in a white supremacist rally on the capitol steps in Austin, Texas. The Confederate flag played a big, big part in our history, Ira says. So, why are they doing this. Roofs crime cannot be divorced from the ideology of white supremacy which long animated his state nor from its potent symbolthe Confederate flag. itol began flying the flag in 1962 and never stopped. 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. 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. Such a stark symbolic contrast reminds us that our nation's long-standing cultural embrace that equates guns with liberty ignores the degree to which gun violence has historically also meant. 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. After the north won, it imposed a harsh Reconstruction on the south that still fuels white resentment today. Sign up to receive email updates daily and to hear what's going on with us! All rights reserved. Pretty much any non-Conservative. Other slogans on flags, clothing or signs . It still holds true today. In fact, if the originalhost dies, he or she can beelevated to the status ofmartyr for "the cause,"serving to inspireexisting followers and lure in new ones. The streets fill with bodies and stinging, painful clouds. The flag no longer represented just a 19th-century battle to preserve white supremacy, but a 20th-century one as well. 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. College students who supported Strom Thurmond's segregationist presidential campaign in 1948 waved Confederate flags at campaign events. Other official flags were also displayed during the Nazi regime. The SCV is correct, though, that Lincoln did not initially call for emancipation. t was 1957 when little Lindy Lubys great-uncle showed up at her house near Benton. But I dont believe everyone who likes the flag is racist. This notion is belied by any serious interrogation of the Civil War and the primary documents of its instigators. It's an old truismthatthe "real bad men" (and bad women) "move in silence and violence." People like me its in our blood. In fact, Frederick Douglass called Lincoln preeminently the white mans president, entirely devoted to the welfare of white men.. IE 11 is not supported. And looking upon African Slavery from the same stand-point held by the noble framers of our constitution. 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. 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. Youre not bad with money. There are plenty of big bangs in "Flags of Our Fathers," but because . 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. Fascism is a highly virulent social disease that usually destroys the host body but not before spreading the disease to many other people. 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. In this way they honor their ancestors. "Shared psychosis" which is also called "folie millions" ["madness for millions"] when occurring at the national level or "induced delusions" refers to the infectiousness of severe symptoms that goes beyond ordinary group psychology. Embrace Violence a movement dedicated to the Military Operators that embrace the reality of combat; continuing the fight. 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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. I later relay Lindys questions to Genesis Be, a 31-year-old hip-hop artist, public speaker and anti-Confederate flag activist from Biloxi. Robert E. Lees armies took special care to enslave free blacks during their Northern campaign. Pipes fill a glass case, and we avoid the curtained adult room. Violence transcends the quirks of philosophy, religion, technology and cultureIts time to quit worrying and learn to love the battle axe. The Thin Blue Line flag shows how far America has to go to heal from police violence. Whats next? But one mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. Violence has become the central act through which the far right understands political agency, which is why fantasies about harming the nation's "enemies" journalists, activists, opposition . (Kean Collection via Getty Images). Copyright 2023 Salon.com, LLC. After driving north along the lonely stretch of Highway 49 through Delta plantation lands, we end up in Larry McCluney Jrs attic in Greenwood. In the interest of reuniting white Americans, the narrative around the Civil War changed in its aftermath. 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? The flag was based on the saltire, a common flag symbol sometimes called the Southern cross. At first, white Southerners mostly displayed it at Civil War cemeteries and at memorials and veterans' reunions. It is also used by anti-government, white supremacist groups who embrace violence, she says. When a highly symptomatic individual is placed in an influential position, the person's symptoms can spread through the population through emotional bonds, heightening existing pathologies and inducing delusions, paranoia and propensity for violence even in previously healthy individuals. As a white woman who still . It was poor white southerners who fought in these battles, being strung along by rich, property-owning whites who banked on the ignorance and arrogance of the poor whites to fight and die in the war, Be says. "In no way does he reflect the people in our state who respect, and in many ways, revere it.". Cowardice, too, is heritage. In the end, of course, Chauvin was found guilty on all three of his charges. Please consider making a one-time contribution to Vox today. Correction: An earlier version of this article said Alabama's state flag includes the Confederate flag. 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. Yet the Confederate battle flagthe flag of Dylann Roofstill flies on the Capitol grounds in Columbia. 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. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. But while white Southern women were draping the flags on the gravestones of the fallen in the early years of Reconstruction, Coski writes, an armed militia of white supremacists in South Carolina was marching with the Confederate battle flag to threaten black residents. As a white woman who still flies the flag in a historically black South Carolina neighborhood put it, it's about. 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. 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. For 75 years, it was used as a reminder of the nobility of that cause. Until they do, the violence of the right is only going to keep swelling and crashing. Nance also noted that Cawthorn's propaganda video is thematically similar to the type of propaganda used by Islamic terroristgroups such as ISIS and al-Qaida to radicalize and recruitmembers. Public opinion polls and other research have repeatedly shown thatmillions of Republican voters and Trump followers would support the use of violence to remove Joe Biden from office because of the "Big Lie" and their belief that that he is not a legitimate president. You feel I boast of impossibilities due to ego and arrogance. The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. McCluney teaches his black students his Confederate history. To others, its a trendy phrase you most likely associate with the new age mentality brought on by the latest Mixed Martial Arts fighting rage to sweep the country. That week, a Thin Blue Line flag was raised defiantly above the Brooklyn Center Police Department building in Minnesota. What has Mississippi done to say that it is sorry for the rape, torturing and killings of scores of its black citizens in order to create a white majority? Be says. 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Reporting by Jack Goodman, Christopher Giles, Olga Robinson and Shayan Sardarizadeh. Black South Carolinians have been asking for the flag's removal since 1972, and it's been a formal demand of the legislature's Black Caucus since 1977. The only thing that has changed is how the rest of the country sees the cause it represents. 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"). We accept credit card, Apple Pay, and Dylann Roof plundered nine different bodies last night, plundered nine different families of an original member, plundered nine different communities of a singular member. The friends reject being offended over what Hentz calls just a piece of cloth. Their God, our God, it doesnt matter. When it was taken down from the Capitol dome, some flag supporters chanted, "Off the dome and in your face.". 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. And, as McCluney points out, New York-financed slave ships kept sailing to West Africa for people to be sold in the Caribbean and South America. Property crime investigations altogether have an abysmal 17 percent clearance rate. But he was still a product of his time. As the country prepared to hear the verdict in the Chauvin trial, more police armies massed in American cities. It was there when our grandfathers, great-grandfathers, were struggling to feed their six, eight, 10 kids. Men who would rather dance with the devil in the valley of the shadow of death than sit at a Starbucks, sipping a $10 coffee while contemplating whether their skinny jeans are adequately squeezing all available testosterone into their systems in hope of fulfilling their latest desire of obtaining a beard. History teaches us that if we don. 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. Embrace Violence. The Klan is different from us. Google Pay. That's certainlytrue for the most dangerous and most effective of Donald Trump's allies, henchmen, henchwomen,and other followers. Mississippi had 436,631, the most in the nation and 55% of the states population. And a new poll from the University of Virginia's Center for Politics even suggests that more than 50 percent of Trump supporters want "red states" to secede from the Union. He also hosts a weekly podcast,The Chauncey DeVega Show. 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. We just didnt believe in racism. In the early 1950s, stock car racers, Southern universities, and social groups embraced the Confederate flag, Coski wrote in his book. The systemic problem remains. She worries that young people now think the flag stands for the KKK. As the practice waned up north, white men rushed to the south, bringing slaves. So, I say to you again, simply I would bring fear and death to them all!. For be my motive good or bad, of one thing I am sure, the lasting condemnation of the North. (True, but usually for their masters. Even as some embrace mutual aid, others resort to violence. Trump's rallies and gatherings continue to celebrate violence and the prospect of revenge and specifically of "getting even" with Trump's"enemies.". Knowing that Lindy now talks to other Mississippians after rethinking the death penalty, I feel a twinge of hope as I watch Iras rebel flag flying outside the window of Deer Hollow. One mans prison sentence for a murder seen by millions on camera is a long way from the transformation we need. As recently as 2011, Haley dismissed concerns about the flag, saying she thought the state had moved on. Drive out this cult of death and chains. By the time Mississippi embedded it into its new state flag in. Thelethal attack on the Capitol hadbeenpublicly announced weeks in advance, and should have come as no surprise. The police kill a man or a woman; or a teenage girl, in the case of 16-year-old MaKhia Bryant, who was fatally shot by an officer near her home in Columbus, Ohio, shortly before the Chauvin verdict was delivered; or a child, as in the case of 13-year-old Adam Toledo, shot with his hands up in Chicago last month. God's will be done. 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. The Christian flag? she asks. Editors Note: They're angry. Davis, 47, also believes the institution might have died out due to modernization if they were able to compromise another 20 years. Its the brainchild of a white college student from an affluent suburb of Detroit, Andrew Jacob, who found the outcry against police violence following the killings of Tamir Rice in Cleveland, Eric Garner in New York and Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, distasteful. 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. In her speech this week calling for state legislators to remove the flag from the statehouse grounds, Gov. His favorite Mississippi history book is from 1900. I go to see and share the bitter end , I have ever held the South were right. Do it now. Trumpism is not actually the core disease. It was removed after some legislators felt it could be, "interpreted as anti . McCluney, 53, is a national officer in the Sons of Confederate Veterans, which accepts male descendants of southern soldiers. Some Southerners argued that white supremacists who waved the flag as they violently attacked civil rights activists were perverting the flag's true meaning. Removing it requires a two-thirds vote of both houses of the legislature. Davis no relation to Jeff has taught history in public and private schools, and also turned out to be an SCV member. It means that they will not surrender, will not take prisoners, and are willing to die for their cause. A New Jersey man bought a Confederate flag to oppose the Truman administration in 1951. A black FedEx man wouldnt come through the front door, she says, instead leaving heavy packages on the porch because he thinks were racial. You think I speak lies and elaborations. The two single mothers finish each others sentences, laughing about that time Hentz went into labor where they worked and Massey put her in an office chair to wheel her downstairs to go to the hospital. And from the moment the design of its best-known flag was proposed, some Southerners began imbuing it with the symbolism of their cause. The room is a shrine to the Confederacy with a rebel-flag-themed cushion, curtains and even a mousepad. Until that kid went in that church in Charleston, people never thought anything about the Confederate or Mississippi flag, she says. Ultimately, Donald Trump, like other fascist and authoritarian leaders, is the symptom of a sick society. 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. I love peace more than life. In fact, police violence by Minneapolis law enforcement increased substantially following the 2020 murder of Floyd. And I would do all this with just few men; hand picked and war hardened. (Today, its supporters say the KKK co-opted it.). Watch: The Charleston shooting is part of a long history of anti-black terrorism, The Supreme Court will decide if a whole federal agency is unconstitutional, Make Trump a non person: Rupert Murdochs Ron DeSantis pivot, explained by a legal filing, What rewatching old shows teaches us about ourselves, How the US can stick the landing, beat inflation, and avoid a recession. Most Confederacy fans may cherry-pick their sides history, but many are more precise about the chinks in the Yankees armor including that not everyone up north was hip to slavery ending, either. They understand that after all else fails and evil overwhelms the powers of the pen, it is they that will be called upon. However, to a very select few, its much much more. Their beliefs will be turned upside down as entire units are brought down without mercy as if God himself smite them. The flag's stubborn hold on the state isn't just the result of an ironclad compromise that makes it all but impossible to take down. Come on over! Joe Barnes booms, describing his nearby Seminary home as the one with the US, Confederate and Mississippi flags out front, after I tell him Roslyn sent us. Barnes, 66, beams as he hands us his SCV card with Nathan Bedford Forrest, the wealthy Memphis slave trader and first KKK grand wizard, pictured on the front. They are not the same thing. For this chosen group, violence is the answer. Still, Ira flies the flag, which his own high school and college used as an emblem. Made in the USA . There are trashy white people and trashy black people., SCV is not racist or violent, he says. 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. In 1994, the legislature seriously considered a compromise, but it later fell apart. Enjoy.. The most widespread Nazi flag featured a black swastika in a white circle on a red field. Embrace equity. At the moment, it is a Republican disease. Patriot Front is a Texas-based white supremacist group led by Thomas Ryan Rousseau. Coski records the Afro-American, a nationally prominent black newspaper, as asking. That was horrific to my organization (SCV) when that took place.. It's a symbol of how successfully the Civil War has been misremembered so that "heritage" and "hate" could be disentangled from each other. The Americans who fly the Confederate flag. 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. His own ancestors sacrifice is paramount. 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. In an average week, they triage 30 referrals from local police, reviewing scenarios in which officers believe a resident is at risk of committing gun violence. 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. 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. Those who object are subject to exemplary violence. A listening tour in Mississippi asks flag supporters why they still support a symbol that represents pain, division and difficult history. Will you support Voxs explanatory journalism? But many of their households owned at least one, or they aspired to ascend to slave ownership. Larry McCluney Jr teaches history to mostly black high school and college students in Greenwood, Mississippi. 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. Shes helped me. For those who embrace violence, the ability to see those that embrace evil comes through as clear as a beautiful desert sky after that rare torrential downpour. 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. The South Carolina state Capitol began flying the flag in 1962 and never stopped. More than any individual actor, in recent history, Roof honored his flag in exactly the manner it always demandedwith human sacrifice. . The war became a national tragedy, not a just cause. Move forward. In actuality, it is better than a gold standard, because violence has universal value. He did not violate some implicit rule of Confederate chivalry or politesse. The Thin Blue Line flag dates back only to 2014. ", merits lengthy quotation: It didn't take long to find hundreds of videos where these Trumpers and so-called patriots were hanging black American flags. Studies have shown that police dont solve most violent crimes. When such wounded individuals are given positions of power, they arouse similar pathology in the population that creates a "lock and key" relationship. Those are the kind of historical interpretations that make the Confederate flag seem like a harmless symbol of regional heritage. The very nomination of ABRAHAM LINCOLN, four years ago, spoke plainly, warwar upon Southern rights and institutions . This group understands that not all people can be negotiated with and at then end of the day, human nature is primal. It flew for all colors, black, white, whatever, she says. That flag featured horizontal and vertical black bands intersected by the Prussian eagle. The Isonhoods were the first stop of my May 2018 listening tour of Mississippi with photographer Kate Medley to ask flag supporters in our home state why they still support a symbol that represents so much pain, division and difficult history even as they urge black Americans to get over their resistance to it. A Confederate flag at an anti-integration rally in Little Rock in 1959. By submitting your email, you agree to our, The Confederate flag symbolizes white supremacy and it alwayshas, The history, though, is clear: from the Civil War through the civil rights movement, the flag has always been about white supremacy. The current cycle of protests is a grotesque and familiar protocol, shaped over the past years since the killing of Michael Brown in 2014. Embrace Violence Two simple words, that when together, build the foundation for all that we know. Slavery was an issue, but not the cause, the teacher tells me. Sitting quietly in the corner, they wait patiently, hoping for the best but prepared to do the absolute worst. 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. Heres the data on Minneapolis police use of force per week since 2017. 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