Texas man insisted on saving his Confederate flag as he was rescued from flood by black MMA fighter

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Source: raw story


28 Aug 2017 at 18:39 ET

In an interview with MMA Junkie, Texas cagefighter Derrick Lewis detailed the devastation in Houston where he says he has been doing all he can to help people to safety, including one man who refused to leave his Confederate flag behind.


Lewis, who goes by the ring name of “The Black Beast,” said he has suffered the ill effects of wading through waist-deep water, but that people need help and he’s doing all he can.

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Lewis said he has been responding to Facebook pleas for help, rescuing families using his oversized truck, including one man who needed to save his rebel flag.

“I picked up one guy and his family, his wife – he just kept apologizing to me, because all he really had was his clothes, and he wanted to take his Confederate flag,” Lewis recalled. “He wanted to take that with him, and he just apologized and said, ‘Man, I’ll sit in the back of your truck, man. I don’t want to have my flag inside of your truck like this.’ I said, ‘Man, I’m not worried about that.’”


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A man with a big heart.

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[Ligyron]

1. That flag is all a lot of those inbred kin-humpers ever had.

[joshcryer]

5. I'd like to hope it had more significance, like a heirloom or something.

Maybe, it was his dead friends or some shit.

But more likely it was just his best flag and he didn't want to leave it behind / get water damaged.

[mpcamb]

15. Why the _ugh does the picture show the BLACK guy when the story's about the white guy's

intransigence when he's rescued????
He's the SUBJECT of the story being told.
Why's the story about the predicate- ... unless you want to confuse your readership.

Gawd, I hate those editors with their hand up... where they don't belong.
News confusion doesn't happen by accident.
Pay attention to your news outlet and their slant.

[MrPurple]

18. Because the black guy is a celebrity and they don't have a photo of the white guy

It's a previous MMA press photo. No one was taking pictures while he was rescuing people.

[mpcamb]

20. I don't feel so quick to let them off the hook.

I have a revulsion for headline and story writers who skew the narrative,
Shite-fire! They went to journalism school.
This stuff doesn't happen by accident.

[joshcryer]

22. The MMA fighter was just telling his story.

While his instagram has a lot of videos he was so busy rescuing people it's unlikely we'll ever see the white guys face. But I don't doubt it happened. Maybe the flag guy will come forward when this shit is over. And explain why he was so desperate to keep the flag. I'd like to hope it was a heirloom or whatever, something that meant something to him other than its meaning. But I have my doubts because I'm hopelessly cynical.

[joshcryer]

23. He's actually posted a few videos of his rescues on instragram.

But I doubt he bothered to film the entire ordeal, including the aforementioned family. Just when it was safe he handed his phone to someone to take a video. (Other videos include him pulling a truck out of the water.) We're talking about a situation where he's driving, he's loading people up, and just going with it.

It's really his word, but there's no evidence that I see to disbelieve him whatsoever. He seemed honest and genuine in his commentary. Would be nice if the guy who had the flag came forward and explained why it was so important to him.

[Freedomofspeech]

2. Pathec and disgusting.

[DK504]

3. He is a better person than I am, I would have thrown it in the water

or left his sorry ass.

[ATL Ebony]

7. I'm with you on that -- an example of why they're called "deplorable"

You can buy another damn flag. I would have told him to get in the truck NOW or stay and hang out with your flag.

[Ilsa]

8. I'm looking forward to a day when no one makes them anymore. nt

[ATL Ebony]

10. Agree, that would be ideal.

[joshcryer]

24. If he told the guy to toss it...

...the guy would've probably done so.

He was the bigger man. Accepted the apology for such a thing to be in his vehicle (and held in such high regard as to warrant an apology). He knew it meant something to the guy and didn't care. I truly believe he didn't give two shits about it. This is someone who spent an entire day rescuing people in heavily flooded waters.

I would've loved for the story to be "I told him to toss that flag" followed by "and he said 'OK, no problem," "and tossed it into the river." But alas that didn't happen. The MMA guy is the bigger man. It's the other guy's pitiful possession he chose to keep. No need making him be rid of it.

[apkhgp]

4. Derrick Lewis

He took the time out of his life to save people from the hurricane and its effects. After all of the garbage that those bigots spewed forth in Charlottesville, and have been doing so for the longest time ( decades...centuries...you pick one ) here comes the exact kind of person that they want to eliminate from this country. What kind of an IQ does that get?

[rurallib]

6. amen to that

[joshcryer]

25. There's one video on instagram where he helps pull a truck out.

One guy, in the back of the truck, barely acknowledges him (while the rest wave and are thankful).

This is a great man with a good conscious.

The POS who couldn't even acknowledge that he helped them is a POS of garbage.

[ADX]

9. Unless that flag was passed down to him by an ancestor who carried it at Gettysburg...

...Johnny Reb would have been walking/swimming.

[flibbitygiblets]

19. I was thinking that too. Even if not, at least

the guy showed some shame, saw the irony of the situation. There's a conscience in there somewhere.

[joshcryer]

26. IMO, the fact he apologized so profusely...

...means that it was probably nothing more than his best confederate flag (cotton, hand sewn, nice, high quality). But that's the cynic in me. I would hope, desperately, that it was handed down to him or had some other connection like a lost loved one or something. But I'm unable to believe that to be the case.

[flibbitygiblets]

27. LOL, "his best confederate flag". Sadly, he had to leave all his "everyday" hate flags behind

...but at least he was able to save the really fancy one. Bless his black racist heart.

[Spider Jerusalem]

11. Of all the things you could possibly save you choose that? Jesus.

[3catwoman3]

12. "A man with a big heart" saving a man with a small...

...brain.

[Solly Mack]

13. Derrick Lewis rose above it all to do the right thing.

And I'll wager he never once considered the politics of the people he was saving.

Yeah, it's hard. I know it's hard. I have to fight it in myself and my best side does not always win.

[Phoenix61]

14. I'd like to think I am as good a person as him

but I'm pretty certain I'm not. No way I would have let him put that flag in my truck. Swim asshole.

[thbobby]

16. White People Suck!

I am white. Comparing Lewis to this idiot lusting for his Confederate flag is sort of like comparing Obama to Trump.

All white people are not bad, of course. But the delusion of white supremacy and the master race is shown by Mr. Lewis and President Obama to be pig shit. Not to mention the whole army of citizens rescuing what people they can in Houston.

[Lucca2]

17. As Obama noticed,

they cling to their guns and their religion. I see it as a rather sad, empty person who has one thing which defines him.

[BigmanPigman]

21. "Guns and religion" says a lot in a few words. He is a wise and thoughtful person.

[mdbl]

28. Someone should tell him God was trying to wash his flag away

That might be the only thing he'll believe, since common sense eludes him.

[Vinca]

29. I hope the guy was saving an antique flag with large monetary value. That's the only reason

anyone should do something like that.

[muriel_volestrangler]

30. Locking - the hosts feel this isn't important news

It's an interesting vignette of the situation, but not a news event in itself. Please repost in GD. Thanks.