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I was:

"Do not fall for the Ghandi psy op

I do not believe in Ghandi, or that loving tyrants and dealing with them peacefully will cause them to blush and surrender. If Britain left India it was for reasons other than Ghandi.

The Ghandi psy op has done a lot of damage to the free world, where Ghandi was used as an example of "if you will it, it will be" and "nice guys always win". The truth is in fact the opposite, when dealing with tyrants the only thing that matters is the amount of force you can exhibit to keep them at bay, and the will to use that force. Unfortunately for America, things should have boiled to that point after JFK. That would have been on time. And I guess, at the soul of the issue, if everyone woke up NOW and took action, tyranny might be overwhelmed but what are the chances of that?.

The last few days have been sad days for me because we got the answer from those who rule America - more so than their trumped up Islamic enemies and Isis, it is THE AMERICAN PEOPLE that are their declared number one terror threat, which means that America's own government (or what is supposed to be the government) is a declared enemy of the people. You cannot label your own population "terrorist" without being the enemy of the people, and now that the American government has taken that stand, the line is drawn.

The line should have been drawn with 911, but the scamming usurpers used their usurped media to spin the public into hatred towards those who had nothing to do with it, rather than the synagogues of New York.

The line should have been drawn when autism stats went above 1 in 5,000, but because too many people still trust those who seek to destroy them, the numbers, via tainted vaccines have hit 1 in 50, with the balance being seriously damaged but not showing full blown autism.

And I believe the line should have been drawn when abortion was legalized, when rigged electronic elections became the norm, when the closed loop nuclear cycle was banned, when the income tax went into place; America has crossed so many lines that it is impossible to guage where it is anymore, it certainly is not America and America's usurpers have now become impatient with keeping on their veil of legitimacy and are dropping it now, leaving the monster beneath bare and naked for all to see.

Disaster is on the horizon, at least a disaster far beyond what we have known so far. If the American people are now declared enemy number 1, there is no telling what these tyrants will do. I believe the following will happen:

They will black out the country. They will virus attack the nuclear facilities. They will go around door to door and kill every registered gun owner. They will destroy all gene pools with GMO DNA the American public has clearly said NO to, but communists never consider the will of the people if the people do not have the wit to hang them. They will rip up all land marks and erase all history. They have already destroyed the libraries. The rest of our history will be a cinch. These usurpers will attempt to destroy America with a weather war. Look at California - they drained the dams on purpose there, and except for a few like me no one said a word all the while the weather war continues unchallenged and unabated.

I believe they are likely to release a plague, real or fabricated and imaginary, and use it to force vaccinate the public. The vaccination will be the death blow, and many gun owners will accept the vaccine because they may have guns but still trust certain aspects of the system.

Our usurpers will use guilt as a weapon, and try to guilt trip people into compliance with their tyrannical measures. And they will guilt trip exactly the right people to cause mass starvations and famine, I believe America is headed the way of Ukraine, and people had better learn about how communists operate NOW, not later, because they are here. They are here, and it is easily proven because:

Only a communist would call white America enemy number 1. Only a communist would ban the sale of the Confederate flag and be able to enforce it, even on Chinese product outlet Alibaba.com within a day of issuing the order. Only communists conduct military exercises such as Jade Helm in secret and out with the public. Only communists seek programs such as nationalized health care with an important twist: at the same time they make private health care illegal. You cannot call countries with state medical communist until that critical step is taken: banning the private sector. America crossed that line.

Only a communist would force people to register a lemonade stand. Only a communist would track the sale of used items, and regulate those sales. Only a communist would put an end to value backed currency and run it all fiat. Only a communist would force a medical procedure such as vaccination. Only a communist would ever put in place public schools that teach the children to hate and snitch on their parents. Only a communist would run the DHS. Only a communist would have a huge intelligence apparatus such as the NSA keep tabs on the people to identify those who are a "threat". America has fallen to communism and the monster is now dropping the veil.

What are you going to do now that the monster is getting brave enough to step out into the light?

The Ghandi solution is NOT the answer.

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Before continuing I have to form an appropriate salute to those who have brought this to my attention. A good blogger is one who provokes critical thinking and the reexamination of base and core political beliefs, including the very foundation of mine. 

Related: Most Difficult Essay I Have Ever Read

It may have just been surpassed by the work above. I can't gainsay anything stated, other than the use of communist. I see them a fa$ci$t, others as globalists, New World Order types, etc. What's in a name?

All I can come up with is the conclusion (as did Malcolm X), that violence is acceptable in defense. That's the difference. If we take violence to them then we become like them and play into their hands. That is the only thing I can come up with that offers some comfort. And I could be wrong.

This next post explains the environment I was raised in in better than I:

"What Does The Stars and Bars Represent?

Political Correctness has taken a front seat in the debate… all over what a raging lunatic did (or maybe didn’t do, depending on whether or not the entire Roof thing is a hoax). Be that as it may, it is apparent by watching/listening/reading the main stream media, we find ourselves being divided (and conquered). By now, if you are a regular reader here, you must know that in my opinion, any time you find the MSM going on a constant attack, focusing on a particular subject, there is an agenda that is meant to fuel this divide and to form the conceptions of those who take heed to their reports (which in almost every case is in direct contradiction to what they do in their homeland). You would also know that any time I see these obvious events take place, I feel confident that a completely opposite stance is probably the best viewpoint. Granted, in reality, there are many shades of gray in their black and white world. If they are pushing the meme about something, you can rest assured that they are doing the bidding of the powers that be with some nefarious intent.

That is what they do. The sooner you understand it, the better for us all. The MSM is not our friend. They are not truthful. They are pawns used to brainwash you. Period. But I want to focus on one particular subject today: the Stars and Bars.

That emblem represents many things to many people. It is loved by some and hated by others. It is a source of pride to some and a source of humiliation to others. Everyone has their own feelings and should have the liberty to express themselves however they see fit.

 The people who are embracing the media lies about this flag are the same people who kowtow to the media clowns doing the Empire’s bidding. The same people who are ignorant about WWII. The same people who fall for every conceivable lie meant to divide the races and every other erroneous and fake cause:

    Censorship and bans contribute to historical amnesia, smack of the Bolshevik re-writing of history and are not the answer. Neither Jefferson Davis, Robert E. Lee or Stonewall Jackson would have had anything but utter disgust for the coward who massacred Black people at prayer. Above all, the Confederate flag stands for the human right of secession, no matter how many maniacs attempt to appropriate it for their demented 21st century causes.

The way of life back then entailed a very small number of southern white people that owned slaves, but you wouldn’t think that by listening to the leader of the Empire, his minions that regurgitate the intended mantras, or the gullible stooges that praise and succumb to their every word. Many of these people take a stance so pigheaded that they forget who their allies are (or were) and that they cannot see that they are supporting the elimination of Freedom of Speech. And no matter what a person’s reason for owning the Stars and Bars (even the most vile, racist, hating rationale), it is their freedom to use that emblem as a form of speech. Others may not like it and they can say all they want regarding it. In the link above, I did tell him to stfu about it because in Chautauqua’s view, anyone that cares for that flag is equivalent to a Nazi: of course, his view of the NSDAP is formed by the same corrupt media and the lying official historians (but that is another subject altogether). There are truths about Slavery that he either doesn’t know or is purposefully hiding. Maybe he and others could take the time to learn more about the truth of the subject.

These people should understand that their narrow view cannot be used against each and every person who has an affinity for that emblem, but even if they are so short-sighted and ignorant, they should not be hypocrites. If they have a thinking brain, perhaps they should re-evaluate the many varied reasons that individuals have for embracing it. According to the people like Chautauqua (and there is a country full of these sycophants railing against people like me), any thoughts of heritage or pride from people who are against Empire and a bloated Federal Government, makes us all miscreants and low-lifes. Hence, the hypocrisy. He has no problem discussing today’s Federal Government’s over reach and lies. But damn those who spoke out about the tyranny 150 years ago. Damn the people who understand that history is not what the very same tyrannical powers that took over the Union back then, rule with the same, ever-growing despotism today:

The Union was taken, by its Northern worshipers, from a contractual institution that can either be cleaved to or scrapped, and turned into a divinized entity, which must be worshipped, and which must be permanent, unquestioned, all-powerful. There is no heresy greater, nor political theory more pernicious, than sacralizing the secular. But this monstrous process is precisely what happened when Abraham Lincoln and his northern colleagues made a god out of the Union. If the British forces fought for bad King George, the Union armies pillaged and murdered on behalf of this pagan idol, this “Union,” this Moloch that demanded terrible human sacrifice to sustain its power and its glory.

From Charles Burris at Lew Rockwell

If embracing the Stars and Bars is only about hatred, then let’s hear the peanut gallery discuss the American Flag and how it has been used to oppress and murder native Americans. Or how it was used to secede from a tyrannical king. Or how it has been used to foster hatred and pride among the gullible who serve to murder and oppress countless millions of people in the world that are NOT American (not to mention the Americans, like me, who are being oppressed with the patriotic fervor we hear from the lick-spittle masses on a daily basis).

I can’t help the brain-washed sycophants, except to share what this emblem means to me and if they still want to label me as a hater, racist, die-hard, ankle biter, coward, traitor, knuckle-dragger, cockroach, etc, (all found in Chautauqua’s post) then that is on them and I will not associate with them further. Had he known, at the time, that I had a personal respect and admiration for the symbolism of that emblem, he may not have wanted me to have anything to do with his stuff.  (With his permission, encouragement and appreciation, I once did a video from a post he did, then had to re-do it later when YT deleted my channel. I have re-assigned the video as “private” until this gets hashed out).

What does the emblem mean to me?

Maybe I should start with what it does not represent to me. It has never represented hatred or an embracing of slavery. In my mind, it has nothing, whatsoever to do with hating black people or celebrating their bondage or any ideas of my superiority to anyone else, especially black people. I don’t condone racism and hatred towards others and I don’t support the KKK or any outfit that thrives off of hate and self-assigned superiority. To insist that those issues are some hidden secret that all rebel flag admirers harbor is misleading, at best, and downright lies at the worst

To this day, I don’t even own one (but I will as soon as I can find an outlet, which is impossible right now because they are all sold out: that should tell you something). I have never flown one, nor have I ever thought it a cause to fight over. Until now.

I see that emblem as a representation of freedom. It gives me pride to know that southern folks had the presence of mind to question the empire being formed and the control the Federal Government of the day over their livelihood and way of life.

To me, this emblem is a banner of battle. It is an image that represents the antithesis of what America has become. It encourages me because I now see America as the oppressor of the world, subservient to Jewish Zionist interests.

The Truth About The Stars and Bars

These people who are so opposed to the flag, don’t even know the history of it (during that time, it wasn’t very prevalent). It was hardly ever seen in battle, because most of the Confederate forces used their own state flags. What you see today isn’t what was used in the day.

What we know today as the “Confederate flag” is a 20th- century combination of the battle flag’s colors with the Second Navy Jack’s design. It is a symbol of cultural identity for some white southerners.

There was a progression of flag designs, many similar to the Union’s flag. The design was similar because southerners were patriotic and wanted something that looked the same. However, this caused confusion on the battlefield. The current Stars and Bars is a 20th century image.

Who Were The Real Culprits In That War?

Abe Lincoln, for starts.

As DC Dave pointed out in his essay called, “Mencken and More on Lincoln’s Speech”, H.L. Mencken wrote about the mind-numbing hypocrisy of the Gettysburg Address:

But let us not forget that it is poetry, not logic; beauty, not sense. Think of the argument in it.  Put it into the cold words of everyday. The doctrine is simply this: that the Union soldiers who died at Gettysburg sacrificed their lives to the cause of self-determination—”that government of the people, by the people, for the people,” should not perish from the earth. It is difficult to imagine anything more untrue. The Union soldiers in that battle actually fought against self-determination; it was the Confederates who fought for the right of their people to govern themselves. What was the practical effect of the battle of Gettysburg? What else than the destruction of the old sovereignty of the States, i.e., of the people of the States? The Confederates went into battle free; they came out with their freedom subject to the supervision and veto of the rest of the country—and for nearly twenty years that veto was so effective that they enjoyed scarcely more liberty, in the political sense, than so many convicts in the penitentiary.

Today is no different. There are still masses of people who are totally captured by such inane nonsense. People who fall for every poetic word uttered by a “black” man with white ancestors. A man whose black heritage doesn’t come from American slavery, but from Kenya. A man who was raised with white people, hobnobbed with white people in school, was supported by white people, and who won the election because of white people.

I think it is clear, as well, that Dave agrees with my assessment of the hypocrisy of people because the very revolution that founded this country is the same type of “rebellion” against tyranny that the South attempted:

The quickest and easiest objection to Mencken on this assessment—that is to say, the objection of the average American who has had it drummed into him that the victory of Lincoln’s forces over the Confederacy was very nearly the best thing to happen in the history of the North American continent—is that the South could hardly be said to be fighting for freedom while it held a substantial proportion of its population in bondage as slaves.  That argument is easily dismissed.  One could argue in precisely the same way that the American colonial revolutionists couldn’t have been fighting for freedom, either, because they had lots of slaves then, too.  The thirteen colonies were fighting for their freedom from Britain—with the slavery question put off until later, and the eleven states of the Confederacy were fighting for their freedom from the Union—with the slavery question put off until later, both in the Confederacy and in the states remaining in the Union in which slavery remained legal.

One might consider another culprit: Those Damned Yankees:

Right into the war, Northerners opposed to the conquest of the South blamed the conflict on fanatical New Englanders out for power and plunder, not on the good Americans in the South who had been provoked beyond bearing. 

Many people, and not only in the South, thought that Southerners, according to their nature, had been loyal to the Union, had served it, fought and sacrificed for it as long as they could. New Englanders, according to their nature, had always been grasping for themselves while proclaiming their righteousness and superiority. 

The Yankees succeeded so well, by the long cultural war described in these volumes, and by the North’s military victory, that there was no longer a Yankee problem. Now the Yankee was America and the South was the problem. America, the Yankee version, was all that was normal and right and good. Southerners understood who had won the war (not Northerners, though they had shed a lot of blood, but the accursed Yankees.) With some justification they began to regard all Northerners as Yankees, even the hordes of foreigners who had been hired to wear the blue.

Here is something closer to a real history of the United States:

American freedom was not a legacy of the “Puritan Fathers,” but of Virginians who proclaimed and spread constitutional rights. New England gets some credit for beginning the War of Independence. After the first few years, however, Yankees played little part. The war was fought and won in the South. Besides, New Englanders had good reasons for independence — they did not fit into the British Empire economically, since one of their main industries was smuggling, and the influential Puritan clergy hated the Church of England. Southerners, in fighting for independence, were actually going against their economic interests for the sake of principle. 

Once Southerners had gone into the Union (which a number of wise statesmen like Patrick Henry and George Mason warned them against), the Yankees began to show how they regarded the new federal government: as an instrument to be used for their own purposes. Southerners long continued to view the Union as a vehicle for mutual cooperation, as they often naively still do.

Read about Thaddeus here.

Yankees, as opposed to Northerners, are not the morality leaders of this country, as they would have us believe (although they are the most hypocritical):

The word “Yankee” gained popularity in the early to mid nineteenth century to describe a particular brand of New Englander: arrogant, hypocritical, unfriendly, condescending, intolerant, extremely self-righteous, and believing that he and his were God’s chosen people. 

Yankees have never shied away from using the coercive powers of the state to compel others to be remade in their image. That’s why compulsory government schooling originated in New England, as did prohibitionism. It’s also why Stalinism took hold in the North (especially in New York City) in the twentieth century, as did its offshoot, neoconservativism, in more recent times. Indeed, many of the more notorious neoconservatives openly admit that they were Stalinists in their youth and have never fully abandoned those beliefs. 

At the outbreak of the War to Prevent Southern Independence there was a vigorous secession movement in what were known then as the Middle States — Maryland, Pennsylvania, Delaware, New York, New Jersey. During the war there were thousands of Northern “peace Democrats” who opposed Lincoln and his Yankee cabal. These people, who were essentially Jeffersonians, had one thing in common with the Southern Confederates: they despised the arrogant, pushy, greedy, and insufferably self-righteous Yankees. They were ruthlessly censored and imprisoned by the tens of thousands by the Lincoln government. When they rioted over military conscription, the Yankee army shot them dead in the streets by the hundreds if not thousands (See Iver Bernstein, The New York City Draft Riots). 

The idea of Yankee moral superiority was carefully crafted almost from the time of the Pilgrims. By 1861, New England Yankees and their Midwestern cousins had concocted the myth of a free, white, and virtuous New England that, by virtue of its moral superiority, had a right to remake all other sections of the U.S. in its own image, creating a Heaven on Earth (i.e., the New England-ization of North America). A corollary of this myth was the notion of the morally corrupt, slave-owning South. 

But the notion of a morally superior New England Yankee nation is all a myth, as is explained in great detail by Joanne Pope Melish in her book, Disowning Slavery: Gradual Emancipation and Race in New England, 1780—1860 (Cornell University Press, 1998). Professor Melish, who teaches at the University of Kentucky, documents how New England propagandists rewrote their own history, not unlike how the Soviets rewrote Russian history, to say that slavery in that part of the country was only very brief and very benevolent.

One hears the constant maxim about defense of slavery (or opposition to abolition) as being the reason for secession.

Why The Civil War Was Not About Slavery

Yes, slavery was an element of secession, but not the primary issue. Expanding Federal government powers, tariffs that were stealing from the south (enriching the north), expansion of central banking, political and presidential agitation… all are aggressive elements of control and empire. The south didn’t want to be a part of it.

The WAR BETWEEN THE STATES 1861-1865 occurred due to many complex causes and factors as enumerated above. Those who make claims that “the war was over slavery” or that if slavery had been abolished in 1776 when the Declaration of Independence was signed or in 1789 when The Constitution of the United States of America was signed, that war would not have occurred between North and South are being very simplistic in their views and opinions. 

The following conversation between English ship Captain Hillyar and Capt. Raphael Semmes-Confederate Ship CSS Alabama occurred during the war on August 5th, 1861. It is a summary from a well-educated Southerner who is stating his reasons for fighting. 

Captain Hillyar expressed surprised at Captain Semme’s contention that the people of the South were “defending ourselves against robbers with knives at our throats”, and asked for further clarification as to how this was so, the exchange below occurred. I especially was impressed with Semmes’ assessment of yankee motives – the creation of “Empire”! 

Semmes: “Simply that the machinery of the Federal Government, under which we have lived, and which was designed for the common benefit, has been made the means of despoiling the South, to enrich the North”, and I explained to him the workings of the iniquitous tariffs, under the operation of which the South had, in effect, been reduced to a dependent colonial condition, almost as abject as that of the Roman provinces, under their proconsuls; the only difference being, that smooth-faced hypocrisy had been added to robbery, inasmuch as we had been plundered under the forms of law” 

Captain Hillyar: “All this is new to me”, replied the captain. “I thought that your war had arisen out of the slavery question.” 

Semmes: “That is the common mistake of foreigners. The enemy has taken pains to impress foreign nations with this false view of the case. With the exception of a few honest zealots, the canting hypocritical Yankee cares as little for our slaves as he does for our draught animals. The war which he has been making upon slavery for the last 40 years is only an interlude, or by-play, to help on the main action of the drama, which is Empire; and it is a curious coincidence that it was commenced about the time the North began to rob the South by means of its tariffs. When a burglar designs to enter a dwelling for the purpose of robbery, he provides himself with the necessary implements. The slavery question was one of the implements employed to help on the robbery of the South. It strengthened the Northern party, and enabled them to get their tariffs through Congress; and when at length, the South, driven to the wall, turned, as even the crushed worm will turn, it was cunningly perceived by the Northern men that ‘No slavery’ would be a popular war-cry, and hence, they used it. 

It is true that we are defending our slave property, but we are defending it no more than any other species of our property – it is all endangered, under a general system of robbery. We are in fact, fighting for independence.”

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Beyond the unmasking of Yankee propaganda I have been fed my whole life is the sad realization that -- once again -- my history books have given me a distorted view of another war.

Related:

The Secret Relationship Between Blacks and Jews

Jewish Involvement in Black Slave Trade to the Americas

As told by a rabbi. 

Somehow that hasn't come into the discussion regarding the vile institution of slavery.

Before folding up this post I think you should see this.

Related:

"The Oxford English Dictionary added the word Masshole to its roster on Wednesday, formalizing a term well known to frustrated drivers throughout the Northeast. A piece of “coarse slang” defined as “a term of contempt for a native or inhabitant of the state of Massachusetts,” Masshole was one of nearly 500 words added to the dictionary on Wednesday."

Now you know the real origin of the term (it's not our driving), and I must confess I'm surrounded by them -- starting with the chosen $upremaci$ts over at the Bo$ton Globe. The problem with them is their propaganda is no longer working.

UPDATE: Confederate Flag Strategy of Tension Campaign Gets it’s Saddam Statue Moment

NEXT DAY UPDATE:

"All these years later, the Civil War rages on" by Renée Graham   June 29, 2015

.... Each racist indignity, whether at the hands of race-baiting politicians, callous law enforcement officers, or murderous bigots, is another dissonant note of national shame. 

I consider the mass-murder of millions of dark-skinned people in service to empire of lo these many decades as the more egregious sin, sorry.

Like their ancestors, African-Americans today are constantly reminded that freedom imagined is not freedom realized. 

Did I forget to mention the NSA data collection dragnet along with other government agency databases? Throwback to COINTELPRO, if you know what I mean.

Always, there are signifiers to keep black people in their place, to let them know their existence hinges on the mercy of those who, without provocation, can ruthlessly crush their fragile sense of well-being.

And now the tables have turned and this government is sending a message to all who dissent!

The Confederate battle flag has long been one of those signifiers. Yet why did it take the massacre of nine black people in a South Carolina church by an alleged white supremacist for many to recognize that infernal banner for what it is?

We know why. This is a fake false flag to stir up yet another reason for martial law -- and the masses seem to be falling for it, although no one talks about it except here. Has such a 1944 Germany feeling to it, from what I've been taught and told anyway.

For more than a century, white American terrorists committed to enforcing the flag’s obscene principles have spilled the blood of black men, women, and children. Was their sacrifice not enough?

What are you going to say to all those foreign peoples whose nations this government has flattened and whose citizens its killed?

Now, after a national outcry, states are scrambling to remove the flag from government property and license plates.

Okay, fine, Supreme Court ruled that it could be excluded from government, fine, Union wins that one.

Retailers, including Walmart and Amazon, are banning products bearing its image.

Now that's trickier, the private part. Word on the web is White House brought serious pressure to the retailers, and they complied. Why wouldn't they? This executive administration has all the communications records or access to them.

Even the swelling scrum of White House-minded Republicans, once for the Confederate flag, is now against it. Of course, with the 2016 elections looming, that sudden about-face is only about minimizing distractions.

Cowards.

While the overdue removal of the flag is welcome, it also feels, to borrow the right-wing parlance, like a false flag.

My eyes kept out of my sockets and back in again when I saw that! A simple slip of the tongue that made it through the editorial censor? 

Readers, that term changed my whole world view -- and it's one that is absent the banker's history books.

So SHE KNOWS?

Banishing the banner is meaningless unless the entrenched racism that allowed its presence to be tolerated, and even celebrated, is also exiled with as much vigor and purpose.

Okay, so when do the Israeli flags get removed from all the government and Congre$$ pukes offices? If you follow her logic, that kinda leads to, well, you know.

And that’s a far more formidable task, especially when so many seem unwilling to acknowledge racism, let alone doing anything about it.

That's why the Israeli-Palestinian piece process goes nowhere, and things aren't looking good for the future either.  

In the 1860s, many insisted the Civil War was about states’ rights, not slavery; today, some refuse to acknowledge that the accused Charleston shooter’s motives were racially motivated.

I'm not even acknowledging it happened. Too many hired crisis actors and drills gone live the last two years (btw, was drill that week). Whatever happened, it is not the official bs transmitted by the propaganda pre$$. They have forfeited their right to be believed with the unending stream of agenda-pushing lies.

South Carolina Senator Lindsey Graham, a Republican presidential candidate, even said the alleged mass murderer’s actions were more like “Mideast hate. That’s something I didn’t think we had here, but apparently we do.” Somehow, Graham has managed to dismiss centuries of bloody, racist American history.

Yeah, he's an idiot. What he said is so out there he must literally be lip-locking to Israel.

Those of us above the Mason-Dixon line often sneer at the inability of some white Southerners to accept their region’s epic loss.

And there it is. That hateful Yankee bias I was raised in my entire life.

What we fail to understand is that they have never consigned the Civil War to the past — for them, the Confederate battle flag is a living heritage.

Whose "we," and please speak for yourself.

For the rest of us, to overlook greater battles being waged in favor of symbolic victories like the removal of an archaic banner, risks a defeat this nation cannot bear....

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She wants a race war. Wow. (Truthfully, I never noticed she was an African-American. All I have ever seen all these years are names)