Sunday Roast: #KeepItDown

Saturday morning, Bree Newsome took matters into her own hands and removed the Confederate flag — a flag that celebrates a heritage of racism, slavery, and treason — from in front of the South Carolina State House.

Newsome and others calling themselves “concerned citizens” released a statement explaining, “Deciding to do what the SC Legislature has thus far neglected to do, the group took down the symbol of white supremacy that inspired the massacre, continued to fly at full mast in defiance of South Carolina’s grief, and flew in defiance of everyone working to actualize a more equitable Carolinian future.”

The flag was soon replaced, but the image of Newsome climbing that pole and removing it is indelible.

This is our daily open thread — Discuss.

21 thoughts on “Sunday Roast: #KeepItDown”

I had not realized this earlier, but Bree Newsome is a fairly well known writer, artist, and activist, who traces her influences back to women like Octavia Butler. I’m on my tablet, and away from “The Beast” (my gigantic laptop), and I’ve never figured out out to copy and paste a link into a blog comment such as this. But I encourage everyone to do a search on Newsome’s name and learn more about her.

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Wayne A. Schneider on June 28, 2015 at 9:37 am said:

You just have to copy the URL into the comment, like this:

http://www.politicususa.com/2015/06/28/dirt-ignorant-flag-waving-bigots-force-south.html

If you want it to be like a hyperlink, that would take some HTML code, but that’s also easy.

Unless, of course, I have completely misunderstood what you were trying to say.

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- Gary Herstein on June 28, 2015 at 9:46 am said:
  
  No, the problem is not a general one of copying and pasting, which is trivial on my laptop. The problem is that I’m not on my laptop, and this little Android tablet adds a few layers of challenges in terms of bringing data from one application &/or window into another. This is pretty much a “one thing at a time” gadget.
  
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  - cryptoclearance on June 28, 2015 at 10:09 am said:
    
    Get an iPad. 😎😎
    
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Privatization excels again, not!

SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Breaks Up After Launch With Space Station Cargo

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded and broke up on Sunday just minutes after its launch with a robotic Dragon cargo capsule headed for the International Space Station. It was the third failure of a space station resupply mission in eight months.

The Falcon took off right on time after a seemingly flawless countdown, rising into the sunny skies over Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florda at 10:21 a.m. ET. But a little more than two minutes after liftoff, video showed the Falcon disintegrating in a blast.

“We appear to have had a launch vehicle failure,” NASA spokesman George Diller reported. Air Force officials said the rocket “experienced an anomaly” 148 seconds into the flight.

Debris from the breakup fell into the Atlantic Ocean without doing damage on the ground. NASA and SpaceX were gathering information about the failure, and details are to be provided at a 12:30 p.m. ET NASA news conference.

Another video of the failure.

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Gary Herstein on June 28, 2015 at 9:49 am said:

Well, in fairness, the early NASA attempts suffered their share of setbacks. My dad would tell the joke about little Johnny being sent home from school. Johnny, it seems, learned how to count from his dad, who worked for NASA: “10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1, oh shit.”

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- houseofroberts on June 28, 2015 at 11:20 am said:
  
  NASA didn’t have many payloads explode like this. Failures were mostly in testing, and the taxpayers shared in the loss. Privatizing space delivery puts the ISS mission at risk, when the provisions and oxygen fail to reach the humans who need them.
  
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I’ve finally concluded, after several moments of deep thought, that the Confederate Stars and Bars is indeed symbolic, VERY symbolic, actually, and that with every passing day it becomes an even more powerful symbol — of SOUTHERN WHITE INFERIORITY — whether on a flag pole, a license plate, bumper sticker . . . ANYWHERE — that’s what it ~~says~~ SHOUTS.

I think I’ll work to spread the word.

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cryptoclearance on June 28, 2015 at 10:10 am said:

A. K. A. INBREEDING

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pachy on June 28, 2015 at 10:19 am said:

When a group wants to march in a parade suggest how much like a defeated enemy they look, being shamed marched by the victors.

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frugalchariot on June 28, 2015 at 10:19 am said:

Here’s a sample of white inferiority in action:

League of South leader: John Wilkes Booth ‘took too long’ to assassinate ‘treasonous’ Lincoln

Michael Hill, President of the League of the South, on left. South Carolina League Of The South Chairman Pat Hines on right — Facebook

In a recent appearance on CNN, Hines described the possible removal of the Confederate flag flying in front of the South Carolina capital building as “cultural genocide.”

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- Ebb on June 28, 2015 at 1:09 pm said:
  
  What’s taking them so long to secede?
  Do it already and be done with it!
  Don’t look to the Federal government for assistance on ANYTHING.
  
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pachy on June 28, 2015 at 10:30 am said:

I remember when I was a boy scout we camped frequently on the site of the Civil War Battle of South Mountain. Most boys wanted to be on the Confederate side so they could show off their moments of death. Moments of death means each dead Confederate had to run ahead of the advancing Union forces to be shot again and again, until it was time to eat!

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frugalchariot on June 28, 2015 at 10:34 am said:

Further evidence of white inferiority, this time from Seattle:

White supremacist who inspired Dylann Roof calls Charleston ‘a preview of coming attractions’

[Harold] Covington, if you believe his website, runs a growing enclave of white supremacists near Seattle called the Northwest Front. The non-profit group is reflected in a series of sci-fi novels, authored by Covington, about a dystopian future in which a white nation is the only answer to US economic and racial woes.

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