As Trump Rises, So Do Some Hands Waving Confederate Battle Flags...

[stringer bell]

During the campaign, the activist and filmmaker Rod Webber documented the sale of Confederate flags with “Trump 2016” emblazoned on them outside a Trump rally in Pittsburgh. He said that he saw the flags for sale outside about 10 other campaign rallies.

In August, inside a rally in Kissimmee, Fla., a Trump supporter named Brandon Partin draped such a flag over a railing, although a campaign staff member and the local police eventually had it removed.

Afterward, Mr. Partin told CNN that he was not a racist or a white supremacist, and he argued that the flag was about the Civil War, which he said “wasn’t about racism at all,” because blacks fought in both Northern and Southern armies.

Mr. Partin said that he thought Mr. Trump would be fine with the display of the flag. “Because he understands the history,” he said.

Since Election Day, anecdotal accounts of discrimination targeting racial and religious minorities and lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people have overrun news reports and social media. National anti-hate organizations have begun tracking the reports, seeking to verify their veracity and identify trends. The Southern Poverty Law Center has received more than 430 reports, the majority of them for anti-immigrant behavior, followed by anti-black episodes. Many of the events have occurred on elementary, middle and high school campuses.

The Southern Poverty Law Center reports that many of the episodes, which range from offensive vandalism to physical violence, have invoked Mr. Trump and his campaign slogans. The center has also collected some reports of Trump supporters being harassed by opponents.

In an interview with “60 Minutes” that aired on Sunday, Mr. Trump turned directly to the camera and addressed those who would commit hateful acts.

“I will say right to the cameras: Stop it,” he said.

Though Mr. Trump called for the removal of the flag from the South Carolina Statehouse, the flag has ardent supporters among prominent members of the alt-right, the group of conservatives that the Anti-Defamation League has called “a loose-knit group of white nationalists and unabashed anti-Semites and racists.” Some extol the flag as a symbol of white resistance. Others describe something broader.

“Love the confederate flag! Has become the universal symbol of defiance,” Paul Ray Ramsey, a Trump supporter and popular alt-right internet personality who goes by Ramzpaul, wrote in January when he shared on Twitter a photograph of Hungarian nationalists with the flag.

Still, the flag’s new context can seem almost baffling to those Southerners who, for decades, have been making the case that it is strictly a symbol of Southern sacrifice from a war settled long ago.

“Well, we are naturally suspicious of all politicians and political parties because they have completely politicized our symbols and history,” Kevin Stone, the commander of the North Carolina division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, wrote in an email this week.

The group’s “constant battles,” he continued, “to keep monuments, flags and other symbols of Confederate heritage intact are usually hard fought, against long odds and without any political allies.”

 

[MazterChef]

what yall niggas do for 8 years ?

while obama was in office?

nothing you missed your chance

 

[farris2k1]

what yall niggas do for 8 years ?

while obama was in office?

nothing you missed your chance

Wtf??? Shut up bitch

 

[farris2k1]

Im in kentucky so seeing that bullshit ass flag on a daily basis is nothing new

 

[rapmusic]

Im in kentucky so seeing that bullshit ass flag on a daily basis is nothing new

And in damn near all towns outside of Charlotte up here in NC

 

[Maximus Rex]

what yall niggas do for 8 years ?

while obama was in office?

nothing you missed your chance

That's what Dr. Umar said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL8ZZSXdrvQ&t=6s

MUST WATCH!! DR UMAR JOHNSON - 11/16/2016 A MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

From 1:50 - 4:34

 

[mrtdb]

People waving flags around on their way back to their trailer trash place of residence.

That flag doesn't do shit to me...because they don't have the guts to pull shit on me. They have freedom of speech and freedom to be ignorant...which they choose to use most frequently.

The reality is that racists are mad because black people are succeeding...and we'll continue to succeed whether they wave a flag around or not.

 

[Undefeatable]

Umar Johnson is a fool.

Nobody should be following this dude.

 

[fortyacres]

what yall niggas do for 8 years ?

while obama was in office?

nothing you missed your chance

That's what Dr. Umar said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL8ZZSXdrvQ&t=6s

MUST WATCH!! DR UMAR JOHNSON - 11/16/2016 A MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

From 1:50 - 4:34

 

[rapmusic]

what yall niggas do for 8 years ?

while obama was in office?

nothing you missed your chance

That's what Dr. Umar said.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BL8ZZSXdrvQ&t=6s

MUST WATCH!! DR UMAR JOHNSON - 11/16/2016 A MESSAGE TO BLACK PEOPLE, PRESIDENT DONALD TRUMP

From 1:50 - 4:34

Wtf?? This dude don't watch tv? Anyway...

Edit: This nigga bout to eat good off this Trump presidency.

 

[rapmusic]

Umar Johnson is a fool.

Nobody should be following this dude.

Right. It's funny how this dude is trying to re-spin this shit. Nooooow Trump and his cronies said gimme my presidency or we are going to tear shit up. That ain't what you said before he won lol. Motherfuckers kill me man.. I hope people finally see this dude for the bullshit artist that he is.