I don’t always get to be proud of my home state, but it’s nice when the chance comes along.

The Seattle Times ran this story yesterday about our very own Confederate Memorial. All of these things need to come down. The Confederacy was the ENEMY of the United States. You don’t see any damn monuments to General Cornwallis anywhere do you?

It was originally called Niggerhead Mountain, a name it kept for more than 100 years until the 1960s, when the name was changed to Negrohead Mountain.

You get a Confederate, and you get a Confederate! EVERYBODY GETS A CONFEDERATE!

In 2014 the state banned the display or sale of merchandise with the Confederate flag on it.

So, is there any question as to why the government doesn’t keep these statistics?? The legal system is based on precedent. Some judge makes a decision, it gets challenged and, if upheld, becomes law.

One state senator in North Carolina took it a step beyond by calling Black Lives Matter a “violent, racist movement” and comparing it to those waving Nazi flags.

Thanks for sharing this with us. It immediately made me think of Kirsten’s piece on Philando Castile and the War on Drugs. Unsure if that was the intent to tie it to the Root’s larger body of work but just want you all to know that I appreciate your ongoing journalism.

Ya know, I thought the few black people involved in pulling that statue down would be hunted down first...There’s actually a sign down the street from my folks’ house. It’s like these statues: a historical (abomination) monument from the past. Only this sign says something about selling “animals, Negroes, and other…

If they allow stereotype to be a consideration in their self-defense claim then someone needs to be filing a lawsuit on an equal protection claim because we don’t get to be scared of white people the way they claim to be scared of us; based on behavior we have the actual claim.

I assume its a rhetorical question but I will take a shot anyway:

A recent analysis conducted by The Marshall Project confirms what most of us have known, or at least suspected

I think one of the worst parts of it all was that one of the officers was a black woman. Which proves the point that “the police” is a system of oppression versus this whole “a few bad apples” bs.

Not to mention the shit he says to Monique is stalker material. I am legit concerned for her safety.

“I had in mind... ‘pigs in a blanket, fry em like bacon.’”

Another walking example of white mediocrity at work.

“We can all agree yesterday went too far.”

So we’re (and by “we’re” I mean white America) going to be more outraged at the tearing down of confederate kitsch than the beating of a US Citizen like Deandre Harris. Where is all the video analysis to charge the people who beat this man?

Go fuck yourself, Dan.

“Nobody is getting away with this... except all the white people in that video.”