White Supremacist rally in Charlottesville

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/republican-legislator-missouri-vandal-lynched

Missouri State Rep. Calls For Confederate Statue Vandal To Be Lynched

A Missouri legislator on Wednesday called for a vandal who defaced a Confederate statue to be lynched.

State Rep. Warren Love (R) was responding on Facebook to a story about an unidentified vandal who threw paint on a Confederate memorial in Springfield National Cemetery, the Riverfront Times reported.

The paper published a screenshot of Love’s Facebook post above the article, which he quickly deleted.

“This is totally against the law,” Love wrote. “I hope they are found & hung from a tall tree with a long rope. National Veterans Cemetery in Springfield, Mo.”

Love later told the paper he didn’t mean for the post to be taken literally. The threat recalled killings that the Ku Klux Klan and other white supremacy groups used to enforce strict racial hierarchies.

“That was an exaggerated statement that, you know, a lot of times is used in the Western world when somebody does a crime or commits theft,” he said. “That’s just a Western term and I’m very much a Western man. You know, I wear a coat. You know, I dress Western. And, you know, I’m the cowboy of the Capitol.”

There was another case of ramped-up rhetoric earlier this week.

In Georgia on Monday, a Republican state legislator told his former Democratic colleague of four years that she would “go missing” and encounter “something a lot more definitive” than torches if she continued to advocate for tearing down Confederate monuments in the state.

The Democrat, LaDawn Jones, said she didn’t take the threat personally. But, she told TPM, when she called Rep. Jason Spencer to discuss his remarks, she said he told her: “I was just giving you fair warning.”

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/news/sessions-tested-doj-probe-charlottesville

Sessions History With POC Comes To Light In DOJ Probe Of C’ville Attack

WASHINGTON (AP) — Jefferson Beauregard Sessions, a son of the segregated South who was named after leaders of the Confederacy, faces a tough new test of his commitment to protecting civil rights as he oversees the Justice Department’s investigation of the deadly violence at a rally of white nationalists in Virginia.

Sessions’ political career has been dogged by questions about race, including during his confirmation hearings this year. In his six months as attorney general, he has worked quickly to change how the department enforces civil rights law, particularly in the areas of police reform and voting rights.

Yet Sessions was also quick to forcefully condemn the car attack at the neo-Nazi rally in support of a Confederate statue in Charlottesville. His response stood in contrast to that of President Donald Trump, who drew equivalence between the white nationalists and those protesting their beliefs. Sessions denounced racism and bigotry and called the driver’s actions an “evil” act of domestic terrorism worthy of a federal civil rights investigation.

Observers say the real test will be in what Sessions does next, given the legal limitations he faces.

Federal hate crimes law may not cover the killing even if it was motivated by hate. Federal criminal law has no specific, catchall charge for acts of domestic terrorism. Sessions may decide that the murder charges already leveled against James Alex Fields Jr. in state court are sufficient for justice.

“It’s my hope that with the degree of national and international scrutiny, that this department will do the right thing,” said Kristen Clarke, a former hate crimes prosecutor and president of the liberal Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law. “This is a case that the world is watching.”

For Sessions, a genial 70-year-old with an Alabama drawl and an uncompromising conservative ideology, leading the Justice Department is the capstone of a decadeslong political career. He has faced questions about his treatment of minorities along the way.

As a federal prosecutor in the 1980s, Sessions charged black community activists, who were swiftly acquitted, in a voter fraud case that, along with allegations of racially charged comments, cost him a federal judgeship. As a Republican senator more than 20 years later, he opposed expanding the federal hate crimes statute to protect people based on their sexual orientation and gender identity.

Clarke said Sessions’ comments in the days after the Charlottesville attack made her cautiously optimistic, but his history has her concerned.

Sessions promised to “advance the investigation toward the most serious charges that can be brought, because this is an unequivocally unacceptable and evil attack that cannot be accepted in America.”

But he also acknowledged that deciding whether to bring federal charges won’t be quick or easy.

Hate crime cases are often challenging because the government must prove that a suspect was primarily motivated by hatred of the victims’ race or religion, as opposed to their political views. The Charlottesville case could be tricky. The victim, 32-year-old Heather Heyer, was white. That means investigators will have to prove Fields was targeting minorities when he plowed into the crowd, not just anti-racism protesters.

Prosecutors can argue that a suspect committed a crime not because of the race of the victim but because of the race of the people on whose behalf she was protesting, said William Yeomans, an American University law fellow and former high-ranking official in the Justice Department’s civil rights division. But that interpretation of the hate crimes law has rarely if ever been used, he said.

“It’s a challenge, but I don’t think it’s entirely impossible or shouldn’t be explored,” Yeomans said. “The real measure of (Sessions’) commitment and his success in this case will be the thoroughness of the investigation” even if the case remains in state court.

Fields already faces a long sentence if he is convicted in Virginia, so a federal charge could be seen as largely symbolic. Former Attorney General Loretta Lynch, for example, said she brought hate crimes charges in a massacre at a black church in South Carolina because that state has no hate-crimes law, and federal charges were needed to adequately address a motive rooted in racial hate.

The latest case is being investigated by career prosecutors and FBI agents, who will make recommendations to Sessions. The FBI would not describe the scope of the resources it has devoted to the investigation, but there are signs it is a priority. Agents were looking for clues in Fields’ hometown in Ohio the day of the attack.

Sessions has said prosecuting hate crimes is a priority of his civil rights division. Yet he is reshaping the unit in other ways that make advocates nervous.

Under Sessions, the department has expressed support for a strict Texas voter ID that a federal judge last month found discriminates against minorities; backed off court-enforceable improvement plans for troubled police agencies; and told local school districts they no longer must allow transgender students to use the bathrooms of their choice.

The department declined to comment further on Sessions’ thinking about the Charlottesville case. Sessions has not said whether he personally favors the removal of Confederate monuments such as the one memorializing Robert E. Lee at the center of the Charlottesville violence. He has said only that cities should make that choice free from violence. His supporters say neither emotions nor his past will guide him in the investigation.

“He will look at it from a very legal perspective. Was a crime committed, and what are we going to do to get a conviction?” said Armand DeKeyser, who worked closely with Sessions and became his chief of staff in the Senate. “He won’t be governed by emotion.”

 

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http://www.kxii.com/content/news/Cemetery-adorned-with-Confederate-flags--442702403.html

Cemetery adorned with Confederate flags

ARDMORE, Okla. (KXII) -- A woman raising money to restore a Confederate statue in Bryan County stopped in Ardmore during the weekend, to adorn some grave sites with flags.

"They're attacking their honor. So they fly, 24/7." Arlene Barnum, an African American Vietnam-era veteran, said.

Barnum, 63, says she likes to spend her retirement traveling to honor fallen soldiers.

"Most men, they go out and buy guns and fishing gear, I spend mine on road trips," Barnum said. "I've traveled to every southern state below the Mason-Dixon line, with the exception of Virginia and Florida."

And over the last couple years, Barnum has focused her energy on defending Confederate veterans, in response to calls by groups all over the country to tear down Confederate Monuments, such as in Charlottesville, Va., and San Antonio last month, and even in Texoma this past week.

"The moment they start ratcheting up their attacks, then that's when I don't slow down, I got to speed it up." Barnum said.

And that's what brought her to Rosehill Cemetary in Ardmore, where she planted over 200 flags at Confederate soldiers' grave sites over the Labor Day weekend. But unlike her previous flag plantings during holidays such as Memorial Day, she says these flags are here to stay.

"If they do it 24/7, we fly them 24/7," Barnum said. "They take one flag down, you put a bigger flag up. They take a monument down, you try and get the money to erect the monument back up."

There's been no word yet from any groups that may oppose the flags, nor from the city who owns the cemetery, but Barnum says its simply about respect.

"They were veterans," Barnum said. "They did what was commanded of them. They fought for what they believed in- whether it is right or wrong."

Barnum says she has raised more than $2,000 to restore the Bryan County monument, but plans to continue fundraising until she reaches the $10,000 goal. She returns to Durant on Tuesday to talk to the commissioners about that fundraising.

http://www.news9.com/story/36287143/woman-planting-confederate-flags-at-ardmore-cemetery

Woman Planting Confederate Flags At Ardmore Cemetery

ARDMORE, Oklahoma -

Even as we have a national discussion about the removal of Confederate monuments, one local woman is placing confederate flags on graves at an Ardmore cemetery.

One by one, Arlene Barnum is placing the flags on the graves of confederate soldiers. Not just at Rose Hill Cemetery in Ardmore, but at cemeteries throughout the south. She says she knows some people look at the flag as a symbol of racism and slavery. She says she looks at the flag through different eyes because she's black.

"Most of the white people are afraid of being called racist. And I let them know that that's their personal problem, but I don't have that issue,” Barnum said. “And I’m not going to tuck and run."

Barnum, who says she's a veteran, says removing confederate statues and flags just adds to the racial division our country is seeing right now.

"I think it's another way to divide the country using black people as an excuse to divide it because they think the black people knee-jerk a lot and they think the black people are the ones they get all excited and riled up," she said.

News 9 asked several people in Ardmore what they thought of the flags. No one wanted to go on camera, because this is such a hot button issue. However, everyone we spoke with said they didn't have a problem with the flags being placed on the graves of confederate soldiers. Barnum says it doesn't matter what people say, she'll continue.

"They're just trying to use the color of my skin to take down anything confederate. I'm not gonna have it," Barnum said. "Just keep them flying 24/7 until this assault on confederate veterans has stopped."

Smh.. The military taught this subordinate coonette well...

 

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https://www.mediaite.com/online/peg...ending-stained-glass-windows-of-confederates/

Late on Wednesday night, Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan took to Twitter to give her reaction to Washington National Cathedral’s removal of two stained glass windows of Confederates Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson.

https://twitter.com/Peggynoonannyc/status/905643859778052096
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https://twitter.com/CharlesPPierce/status/905645315763474437
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https://twitter.com/freedarko/status/905655494181699590
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https://twitter.com/WFLARyan/status/905798552777105409

 

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https://www.instagram.com/p/BY9bXjNjN97/

 

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https://twitter.com/Acosta/status/908413813397098497

 

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http://talkingpointsmemo.com/dc/tim-scott-trump-meeting-charlottesville

A Month After Charlottesville, Trump Keeps Blaming ‘Bad Dudes’ For Violence

President Donald Trump on Thursday continued to blame “bad dudes” among counter-protesters at a white nationalist rally last month in Charlottesville, Virginia that turned deadly.

Trump initially said that “many sides” were to blame for the violence at the rally, and later said there were “very fine people” on both sides. Asked Thursday about a meeting he had with Sen. Tim Scott (R-SC) to discuss his response to the white nationalist event, the President again criticized the “other side,” and said nothing about the white nationalists at the rally.

“We had a great talk yesterday,” Trump said of the meeting with Scott, who is the only black Republican senator. “I think especially in light of the advent of Antifa, if you look at what’s going on there.”

“Antifa” is short for “anti-fascist,” a group that sees violence as a proportional response to fascist groups.

“You have some pretty bad dudes on the other side also, and essentially, that’s what I said,” the President continued. “Now, because of what’s happened since then with Antifa, you look at what’s happened since Charlottesville, a lot of people are saying and people have actually written, ‘Gee, Trump may have a point.’ I said there’s some very bad people on the other side also, which is true.”

Scott said Wednesday that Trump had told him about “an antagonist on the other side” of the protest in Charlottesville, referring to counter-protesters.

Scott had said after Trump’s “many sides” comments immediately following the Charlottesville violence that the President’s “moral authority is compromised.”

Scott told reporters after his meeting with Trump that he had tried to contextualize the rally within white nationalists’ and white supremacists’ history of terrorizing minority communities.

“He shook his head and said, ‘yeah, I got it,’” Scott said, characterizing Trump’s response, according to McClatchy.

Scott told CBS separately that Trump had “obviously reflected on what he has said, on his intentions and the perception of those comments.”

“I’ll let him discuss how he feels about it, but he was certainly very clear that the perception that he received on his comments was not exactly what he intended with those comments,” he added.

Scott responded to Trump’s latest equivocating Thursday by saying “That’s who he is,” according to CNN:
https://twitter.com/Phil_Mattingly/status/908417593257668608

I guess you can't "educate" a white supremacist...

 

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https://twitter.com/senatortimscott/status/908428535353810944

 

[The Lonious Monk]

https://twitter.com/senatortimscott/status/908428535353810944

Give the dude a little credit. That's the most we've ever gotten from a Black Republican (except maybe with Colin Powell). Could you imagine Sheriff Clarke or Ben Carson even trying to educate Trump on why he was wrong?

 

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[The Lonious Monk]

That wasn't no ANTIFA dude because they be poppin shit to the Neo Nazis and then getting their asses whipped.

 

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xS4lRI81qac

We gota stop the violence he had no chance

 

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https://twitter.com/WFLARyan/status/905798552777105409

White tears gif

 

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http://www.seattletimes.com/seattle...ideo-of-man-wearing-swastika-getting-punched/

Swastika-wearing man punched on Seattle street, removes swastika, police say

Seattle police are responding Monday to a viral video of a man wearing a swastika armband getting punched in downtown Seattle.

Police said they they received several reports Sunday of a man wearing a swastika instigating fights at Third Avenue and Pine Street. Police said they were on the scene within five minutes and found the man — with a Nazi flag armband — on the ground.

“He declined to provide info about incident & left after removing his armband,” Seattle police said in a tweet about the incident on Monday.

No one else at the scene contacted officers to make a report about the incident, police said.

 

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That sonic sound..

 

[Shizlansky]

Remember how ppl was saying fucking marching and is blacks need to take the shit to the next level. Them Antifa folks out here putting hands on white supremacy.

Respect.