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re: Bree Newsome climbs flag pole to remove Confederate Flag from SC Statehouse
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:35 pm to Tuscaloosa
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:35 pm to Tuscaloosa
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I added this to the OP, but I think the issue now become whether or not the state will re-raise the flag. Whatever the reason was, it was a brilliant way to force the issue - as the state seemed like they were just trying to ignore all the backlash and hope it would just quiet down and fade away.
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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 boxcarbarney
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Am I supposed to know who this is, or is she only famous for defacing government property?
Didn't have enough room in the title to add that she's an actress, singer, writer, etc...
And didn't feel the need to include "black girl" since I included pics.
But no, I don't suppose you'd know who she is. But you will now.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:39 pm to Tuscaloosa
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“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 2:40 pm to Fireman17
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If you was really that brave why did not she not stay up and not just come down and goto jail
Because that defeats the purpose of what she was doing. It would have become a spectacle of police removing a girl from a flagpole, instead of about a girl climbing it to remove a flag - knowing she was going to go to jail.
She knew she was going to jail. Pointless to "stay up there".
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:40 pm to Tuscaloosa
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But no, I don't suppose you'd know who she is. But you will now.
Never heard of her before, not googling her now
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:42 pm to fleaux
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not googling her now
You won't have to. I'd imagine she'll be a household name before too long.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:42 pm to Tuscaloosa
She's no Rosa Parks
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:43 pm to Tuscaloosa
Triggered.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:43 pm to GeauxxxTigers23
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She's no Rosa Parks
Will likely be celebrated in a similar fashion by many. Maybe not to the extent Parks was, but she'll definitely have a spotlight, IMO.
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 2:45 pm to Tuscaloosa
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Will likely be celebrated in a similar fashion by many. Maybe not to the extent Parks was, but she'll definitely have a spotlight, IMO.
She'll be forgotten in less than a month
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:46 pm to TxTiger82
I am wondering how many people she saved by removing the flag.. Flag cant pull a trigger?
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:46 pm to TxTiger82
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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.
Bingo.
Lots of triggered simpletons in this thread so far.
I'll be interested to see how long it stays down.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:47 pm to crankbait
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why didn't she just lower it?
And she's wearing a harness while trying to make her brave statement? pussy
They said last week it didn't have rope on it to lower it. That's why it stayed high when all the other flags were at half mast.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:48 pm to TxTiger82
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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.
Yup.
And the next move is on the state of South Catolina, with the eyes of many on them.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:48 pm to Fireman17
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I am wondering how many people she saved by removing the flag.. Flag cant pull a trigger?
Symbols are important. In fact, that's why you are reacting with defensiveness and enmity -- the symbol means something to you, too.
Posted on 6/27/15 at 2:48 pm to Tuscaloosa
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