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In reply to the discussion: White House Rebel Yeller Identified [View all]whttevrr
(2,345 posts)29. Washington Post has a piece on him too...
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2013/10/14/ugly-rebel-yell-in-front-of-the-white-house/
If you want to curdle the blood of an African American and send a message of menace without resorting to burning a cross on the lawn or marching around in white sheets all one need do is wave the Confederate flag. So imagine my revulsion at the sight of one outside the front gates of the White House.
Michael Ashmore of Hooks, Tex., was among the many who converged on Washington for the Million Vet March on the Memorials to protest the government shutdown. This was the event where former half-term governor reality television star and best-selling author turned conservative gadfly Sarah Palin said, Our vets have proven that they have not been timid, so we will not be timid in calling out any who would use our military, our vets, as pawns in a political game. Applauding her self-awareness would be the height of irony and sarcasm.
The protest and some of the barricades placed at the World War II Memorial then moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And it was there that Ashmore waved his Confederate flag. A symbol of Southern resistance and white supremacy unfurled in front of the home of the first black president of the United States. As Jeffrey Goldberg of Bloomberg View and the Atlantic correctly said on Twitter yesterday, In many parts of America, waving a Confederate flag outside the home of a black family would be considered a very hostile act.
Stay out of the comment section if you have blood pressure issues... there are some real psychos commenting there.
If you want to curdle the blood of an African American and send a message of menace without resorting to burning a cross on the lawn or marching around in white sheets all one need do is wave the Confederate flag. So imagine my revulsion at the sight of one outside the front gates of the White House.
Michael Ashmore of Hooks, Tex., was among the many who converged on Washington for the Million Vet March on the Memorials to protest the government shutdown. This was the event where former half-term governor reality television star and best-selling author turned conservative gadfly Sarah Palin said, Our vets have proven that they have not been timid, so we will not be timid in calling out any who would use our military, our vets, as pawns in a political game. Applauding her self-awareness would be the height of irony and sarcasm.
The protest and some of the barricades placed at the World War II Memorial then moved to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. And it was there that Ashmore waved his Confederate flag. A symbol of Southern resistance and white supremacy unfurled in front of the home of the first black president of the United States. As Jeffrey Goldberg of Bloomberg View and the Atlantic correctly said on Twitter yesterday, In many parts of America, waving a Confederate flag outside the home of a black family would be considered a very hostile act.
Stay out of the comment section if you have blood pressure issues... there are some real psychos commenting there.
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Nah, he's just some redneck who believes he's a lone, independent, self-made man
nolabear
Oct 2013
#13
Oh, I wish I was in the Land of Traitors, Rattlesnakes & Alligators, look away, look away . . .
hatrack
Oct 2013
#15
I thought he was a liberal plant? Wasn't that the right wing conspiracy theory?
Warren DeMontague
Oct 2013
#24