SoylentNews is people
SoylentNews
Courthouse News Service reports
A woman climbed a flagpole and cut down the Confederate flag in front of the South Carolina statehouse Saturday before promptly being arrested and seeing the banner raised again less than an hour later.
Bree Newsome, dressed in climbing gear, spoke respectfully with police gathered at the base of the flag pole as she continued to move ever closer to the flag. A video of her climb captures Newsome, a resident of Raleigh, North Carolina, talking to police from about two-thirds the way up the 30-foot pole, evidently acknowledging her imminent arrest.
"I know sir. I'm prepared", she says.
"Ma'am, come down off the pole", the officers yell as passing motorists honked their horns at the scene.
"You cannot get to me with hatred and oppression and violence", Newsome shouted as she cut the flag down. "In the name of God, this flag comes down today."
The New York Daily News identifies the woman as Brittany Ann Byuarium (Bree) Newsome of Charlotte, NC and continues
[...] When she reached the bottom, State Police took the flag out of her hands and arrested her. Another North Carolina activist, James Tyson, climbed over the four-foot wrought-iron fence and held the pole to make sure Newsome didn't fall, Lewis said. He was arrested alongside Newsome as a group of onlookers cheered off camera. The 30-year-olds were charged with defacing a monument on state Capitol grounds, a misdemeanor that can bring up to three years in prison and a $5,000 fine.
A judge ordered $3,000 bond for each of them and said they were free to travel to other states.
(Score: 2) by LoRdTAW on Tuesday June 30 2015, @03:05AM
No that is a statement of fact. Bigotry is simply an intolerance of another persons opinion. And if being intolerant of racism is bigotry then I am guilty.
And word of advice: Name calling is not an argument. It's pretty damn weak. Now, finish your veggies.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:34AM
Do you have any proof to back up that statement, or are you just using the logic "Confederate flag -> the 'south' -> slavery -> racism"?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday June 30 2015, @04:40PM
You just answered your own question: Confederate flag -> the 'south' -> slavery -> racism. DUH!
I suppose Americans are not only bad at geography but also their own history. Talk about bad at history, so many of them think the world is only a few thousand years old. No wonder why they are on a downslide.
(Score: 2) by penguinoid on Wednesday July 01 2015, @03:23AM
What if you're intolerant of state's rights, freedom of speech, *soldiers who died defending their land, but pretend that what you're intolerant of is racism? And what if you use **lies to justify that? You're exactly the sort of person who, 100 years ago, would have been telling everyone exactly what God gave people black skin as a representation of -- because back then, that would have been a popular viewpoint.
*which the specific flag in this story is about
**"The confederate flag was explicitly created to represent racial bigotry." -- LoRdTAW June 29, 08:34AM (#202753)
RIP Slashdot. Killed by greedy bastards.