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Bree Newsome climbs flag pole to remove Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:21 pm
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:21 pm
Twitter is blowing up with #FreeBree after Bree Newsome climbed the flagpole at the South Carolina Statehouse and removed the Confederate Flag.
Likely an iconic moment in history.
The issue now becomes whether or not the state will re-raise the flag. Brilliant way to force the issue, IMO.
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Likely an iconic moment in history.
The issue now becomes whether or not the state will re-raise the flag. Brilliant way to force the issue, IMO.
LINK
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Newsome scaled the 30-foot flag pole outside the statehouse early this morning, climbing the pole with the help of a harness, which quickly attracted the attention of law enforcement. As the Capitol police ordered her down, she continued her act of civil disobedience and took down the Confederate flag. She paused in her descent to declare, “I come to get you in the name of God. This flag comes down today!”
As she came down from the pole, she uttered prayers and told awaiting police that she was “prepared to be arrested.” Police took the flag out of her hands, helped her over the enclosure, and she was taken away as a gathered crowd applauded her actions and chanted, “We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
This post was edited on 6/27/15 at 2:31 pm
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Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:22 pm to Tuscaloosa
What a hero
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:23 pm to Tuscaloosa
Yep, that flag coming down is going to end discrimination, feed, clothe and house a whole bunch of currently poverty-stricken black folks.
Yessireebob.
Yessireebob.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:24 pm to Tuscaloosa
Now the nation can rest. I am actually glad cause now perhaps people will shut the frick up about it.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:24 pm to Tuscaloosa
why didn't she just lower it?
And she's wearing a harness while trying to make her brave statement? pussy
And she's wearing a harness while trying to make her brave statement? pussy
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:24 pm to Tuscaloosa
We are all witnesses.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:24 pm to Tuscaloosa
Awesome for her. Awesome for the haters. Hell week continues for the conservatives. Just awesome!
There'll be major butthurt over this one.
There'll be major butthurt over this one.
This post was edited on 6/27/15 at 2:28 pm
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:24 pm to Tuscaloosa
So brave to do something to get attention and the respect of anonymous internet users.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:28 pm to Tuscaloosa
Glad they didn't shoot her.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:30 pm to Tuscaloosa
Well, she got the attention she sought
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:32 pm to Tuscaloosa
I'm happy the black community has solved all its problems now.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:35 pm to Tuscaloosa
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Bree Newsome
Am I supposed to know who this is, or is she only famous for defacing government property?
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:37 pm to Tuscaloosa
If you was really that brave why did not she not stay up and not just come down and goto jail 
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:38 pm to Tuscaloosa
The next Rosa Parks. Print the history books. 
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:39 pm to Tuscaloosa
quote:
“We have nothing to lose but our chains.”
The gold ones?
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:40 pm to Tuscaloosa
Welp, she'll be rich. If I was black and lived in South Carolina, I'd be pissed I didn't think of it first.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:43 pm to Tuscaloosa
Triggered.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:44 pm to Tuscaloosa
You folks mocking her for "ending racism" are attacking a straw man. The point was clearly to remove, however temporarily, a state-sanctioned symbol that a large subset of individuals have a problem with.
This post was edited on 6/27/15 at 2:45 pm
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:50 pm to Tuscaloosa
Great climber, it's in her genes
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:50 pm to Tuscaloosa
Flag is already back up, and will remain up, through the grace of God.
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