To The Racists In Lynchburg, Virginia, I’m Putting Your Asses On Notice And To My Mother Who Claims I Constantly Embarrass Her, Get Over It!

 

 

Lynchburg, Virginia boasts of nothing but confederate this and confederate that. There is a confederate trail at a cemetery on Fort Avenue. The sign encourages anyone driving on Fort Avenue to walk the confederate trail. There are streets named, “Plantation Road,” and “Confederate Avenue.” Homage is paid to the so-called ‘heroes’ of the confederacy. A tree that used to be a lynching tree was mourned by the racists in Lynchburg, Virginia when lightning struck the tree and killed it. Not too long ago, there was a scandal whereas Jerry Falwell stated that he would wear a mask only if it depicted whites in black face or wearing Ku Klux Klan (KKK) outfits. We had a governor who was dressed in either or both, but was trying to backtrack from that fact. Remember Governor Northam. We also had a restaurant on Fifth Street called, Fifth And Federal Station whereas the owner ordered ‘black face’ and KKK masks for his workers. Fifth and Federal Station has since closed down and another restaurant is slated to open in its former space. I will not be heading in there because whatever is going to take the place of that racist piece of shit, Fifth and Federal Station, is more than likely going to be more of the same.

I am pointing all of this out to say that this entire burg, all 49.6 square miles is 49.6 square miles of pure, unadulterated racism. This burg’s whites are so racist that dating back as far as I can remember in my childhood, I only remember seeing two white faces until I started going to school and one white face belonged to a doctor, Dr. Morris. He was the only pediatrician who would see Black children. If not for Dr. Morris, I don’t know what we would have done. I remember him as a kindly man, who when I had chicken pox, popped one of them and I was like, “Ewwww, that’s nasty!” He told me to stay home in bed and take it easy. I also remember when I had tonsillitis, he referred me to Dr. Rischer and Dr. Rischer was another fine doctor who also saw Black patients back then. He was an ear, nose and throat doctor who also operated to take bad tonsils out. I remember my mother told me that Doctor Rischer said that I was the prettiest patient that he had operated on that day and he had also operated on a little white child and my mother noted that the mother of the white child turned green upon hearing Dr. Rischer say that. And so as far as I am concerned,  there were probably about two or three whites who were not extremely racist in this burg because even when I started school and we were integrated with the whites, the white kids took to me like ducks take to water and when I would refuse to have anything to do with them, I would get called to the principal’s office and asked why was I not speaking to Teresa or Donna or whomever. I’m like, “WTH!” “I talk to whomever I please, or not!” 

But as usual, I digress. I want ALL the racists in Lynchburg, Virginia, and you know who you are, to understand this fact, I am not going to let up on you racist pieces of shit until something is done about reining your vile, vicious, evil, racist shit in. You are going to be MADE to answer for the racist, evil shit that you are doing to those who look like me. It is way past time that something was done to stop that shit and I am going to make every breath that I take, a breath that is used to speak out on what the hell you fucktards are doing to Black people in this hellish burg that you treat as your own personal fiefdom and as though you don’t have to abide by laws, regulations, rules or anything that’s not put on the books by you vile and filthy pieces of putrid racist filth! I was born in this cesspool and so there is very little that I don’t know about it and what I did not know, I quickly found out. So, you can attempt to do your worst to me, but that is only going to embolden me to go after your damn racist asses with everything I can muster to make sure that the evil shit you do is uncovered and that you are made to answer for it.

As for my mother, who is one who shucks and jives to you racists and gets her voice set all nice and sweet when talking to a damn racist but yet cusses her children out as if we’ve done something wrong by merely existing, I’ve got a few words for you. You don’t even want to sit inside a restaurant with me. You won’t even go inside a store with me, talking about how loud I am and what an embarrassment I am to you. You have told me over and over what an embarrassment I am to you. What the fuck do you mean? I am YOUR flesh and blood and so if I am an embarrassment to you, you are an embarrassment to me because I did not give birth to you, you gave birth to me. I remember you coming home exclaiming over what those rich white little shits used to do when you were cleaning their homes and how you mistreated us because we weren’t the rich white little shits that you had just left. How the fuck was that on us? That shit was on you! I didn’t ask to be born in a cesspool of racism called “Lynchburg, Virginia.” That shit was on you and that sperm donor daddy who was useless and who told us that we were an embarrassment to him as well. Really???!! How the hell could we have been an embarrassment to a piece of filth that beat your ass, tried to beat my baby sister’s ass, wanted to beat my ass, but I wasn’t having it and also was never home because he was too busy out whoring around? The two of you were the worst parents any children could ever have and we were an embarrassment to you assholes???!?!!! Get the fuck outta here!!!

The same quack you have for a doctor is the same quack I have, but the difference is, you more than likely will do everything that filthy, racist fucker suggests. I’m sure your ass is vaccinated and boostered the hell up and yet someone told me that you’re experiencing kidney problems. You know, at one time, I would be feeling sorry for you, but that sorry dried up aeons ago and it will never surface again. I used to try and help your ass out even when you were belittling me, but that ship has sailed. Tell folks when was the last time you laid eyes on me. You can’t even fucking remember. And I hear tell that your ass is so foul, you sent Baeboo packing when she was trying to help you. And she has the patience of Job, but even she had to leave your ass, high and dry. Even Bubba said that when he pass by your house, the pedal is most definitely meeting the metal, he don’t want to give you a chance to flag him the fuck down. Ain’t nobody trying to fuck with you, but I’m the embarrassment???!!!!

You would talk about your own children to these racists that didn’t give a damn about you or us. Those racists would call you and cry in your ear on the phone talking about their fucked up lives because even having loads of money, don’t stop the issues and yet, when you came home from cleaning their homes, all you’d talk about is little Jessica said this and little Jenny said that and what Jay did and how cute Jenny said something. But would turn around and cuss us the hell out, but yet we are YOUR embarrassment????!!!! Are you fucking serious???? And you wonder why I have ZERO respect for you now??? I just know you don’t!!!! And I meant every single goddamn word of that letter I wrote for you and posted on this blog for your 77th birthday and I hope you saw it.

You put racists over us. You were made privy to the criminal acts of racists and yet what did you do about it? You fucking kept quiet about the shit because you were too intent on telling your own flesh and blood how much of an embarrassment we were to you. I was such an embarrassment that you allowed a man to beat my ass in your house while you and that sperm donor father of mine watched. I was such an embarrassment to you and yet I was the only one who would pull your husband off your ass when he was kicking you six ways to Sunday even though you used to drive us to illegal nip joints at night and leave us. But we are the embarrassment????!!!! And I am still appalled by your holier than thou attitude when we used to have to sit up in church and listen to that bullshit and then go home and watch the two of you fight like cats and dogs because of your husband’s whoring ways. He even stated long before he died that he was leaving no will because he wanted us all to fight over his belongings. What belongings? A big, fucked up house, three fucked up vehicles, some suits and some rings???!! I wanted nothing from his ass and that is exactly what I received because you were too busy handing his suits and rings over to the ‘men’ who had beat your daughters all throughout their marriage until I escaped, fled the state and my sister finally divorced her piece of shit scumbag husband. But yet you still claim them to this very day as being your “sons-in-law.” You’re going to have to answer for that shit just like these vile, vicious racists are going to have to answer for their shit! But I’ll be damned if I’m YOUR embarrassment heifer because YOU ARE MINE!!! Now suck on that!!!

All y’all Lynchburg racist motherfuckers are on notice and I don’t give a shit what you throw at me, I’m throwing shit right back at your foul asses!! If I’ll throw my own mother under the goddamn bus since she claims I’m some sort of embarrassment to her, then every motherfucking body else is going underneath that bitch as well!! All y’all Lynchburg racist motherfuckers are fair game!!! And I ain’t fucking playing! And if any of my so-called ‘other relatives’ want a piece of this action, try me!! Yeah! Your asses already know to leave me the fuck alone! You don’t want this smoke because you know I know all y’all’s fucking business! You better keep the fuck quiet while I do MY thang!

Lynchburg’s Racist Whites Started A Petition To Rename Lynchburg, VA In Light Of The Black Lives Matter Movement!

 

 

 

Let me get my laughter out of the way, first! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 If I don’t laugh, I’ll cry!

Petition to rename Lynchburg gains traction in light of Black Lives Matter movement

LYNCHBURG, Va. (WSET) — Over 1,000 people have signed a petition to rename the City of Lynchburg.

John Lynch was a Quaker described as progressive for his time in the 1780s, according to Chief Public History Officer Ted Delaney.

“He believed in emancipating slaves,” Delaney said. “He had slaves but he freed all of his. He’s supporting recolonization, which is sending slaves back to Africa. He did not believe in perpetuating the institution of slavery in this country.”

Delaney explains that the term lynching is actually named after Lynch’s brother, Charles Lynch.

Charles Lynch would tie British soldiers to a tree and beat them until they cried” Liberty!” which would stop the beating since that meant they agreed with the revolution.

Oh sure, Charles Lynch only beat some British soldiers and that’s how come the lynching of slaves and their descendants came about. They just switched it up; it was only quite a little harmless beating.

These shameless white racist shits are still trying to deny what the fuck they did; lynching was not about beating someone to death. Lynching was placing a noose around someone’s neck and stringing them up on trees or whatever until they were dead and swinging. And slaves and their descendants were the victims of whites’ lynching them. Don’t get the shit twisted. Lynching was not about some damn British soldiers, I don’t care how hard you filthy, vile, racist shits try and rewrite history to whitewash the foul ass shit you’ve done and still continue to this day, the vicious shit you’ve done is still stinking up the place.

And whites!!! Seriously!!! Just stop!! Don’t nobody give a shit about you toppling those damn racist icons of yours. Don’t nobody give a shit about you renaming racist sounding dead ass burgs; that don’t change a thing about your racist asses. You will do everything, but the RIGHT thing; put an end to ‘white supremacy’. You think that by dressing up racism and white supremacy and by dressing up, I mean, tearing down your patron saints of racism and your other symbols of racism and white supremacy, that you’re doing the damn thing. The only thing you’re doing is showing just how little you give a shit about righting wrongs you know need to be righted and the little bitty shit you’re doing, don’t cut it. So just stop, already!

No American descendant of slaves, who is in their right mind, would buy your bullshit, lame ass attempts to get us to understand that you sympathize with our plight; a plight we have because of your racism and system of white supremacy that you uphold daily because it benefits you. Those of us who are woke are not fooled by your piddling little attempts to look like you’re doing something constructive against white supremacy, white privilege, racism, bigotry; the whole nine yards.

Renaming a piece of shit burg is going to do nothing when those same Black people living in that piece of shit burg are going to continue to get shitted on by the likes of you petition signers. Don’t nobody need you to put on a show. We need real change. We need the entire system of white supremacy brought down. We need a level playing field. We need reparations. We need you to stop putting a bandaid on slavery, Jim Crow, mass incarceration of us, mass homelessness of us, income inequality, the school-to-prison pipeline and the rest of the shit you’ve visited on us and that shit continues to this day. Your bandaids ain’t doing shit when we are still underneath your damn boot and you know this. You can name Lynchburg, Hellsburg for all I care and that won’t change a thing because you can’t change what you are; heartless, soulless, racist, parasitic, savage, debased filth! There ain’t a goddamn jewel, cloth of satin or plastic surgeon that could turn you filthy ass racist bastards into something fit for hell!

And if the name ‘Lynchburg’ suited you since the 1700s, why the fuck is that shit bothering you in the year 2020? And don’t hand me no bullshit about BLACKLIVESMATTER because our lives have never mattered to you. I have written blog after blog after blog about what this shithole called Lynchburg has done to me, my cousin and many other American descendants of slavery and every single time I speak to a Black person in this racist shithole, I want to cry because I hear story after story after story that mirrors mine and so many others and so you goddamn pieces of racist shit, you fucking tell me, how would changing the name of this racist burg, make a goddamn bit of difference when you’re not going to fucking change???!!! So shut the fuck up! I’ve about had it with these fucking racist whites and their bullshit! With racist ass Jerry Falwell Jr., of Liberty University, running around talking about how he is only going to wear a face mask portraying either ‘Black face’ or a ‘KKK hood’ and you want to talk about changing Lynchburg to something else because ‘Lynchburg’ reeks of racism???!!!With confederate flags flying around everywhere in this burg, you can only talk about changing the name of this piece of shit burg? Seriously????!!! Black people are down here looking like shit because the medical field is making sure that Black people don’t live long and healthy lives. Everyone knows that if they need medical care, go elsewhere, but you think that changing the name of this racist shithole burg will make a difference? Go fuck yourself!

You fuckers called the police on me when I was sitting up in my cousin’s hospital room at Lynchburg General Hospital after he had a heart attack caused by the fucking mental medications you gave him. How the fuck do you call the cops and send them into a heart patient’s room and expect the patient’s heart to not to do leaps and bounds when that shit occurs? The cop stated that some damn nurse administrators claimed I was taping their damn asses. Seriously? Lynchburg General Hospital is taping all of our asses before we can even get inside the damn door and yet I can’t fucking tape you???!!!! I sent that cop bitch packing and got my cousin the fuck up out of there and you know why, because you’re a bunch of stupid, dumb ass, racist pieces of shit, that’s why! I ran circles around every goddamn racist piece of shit that you fuckers sent into his hospital room and you won’t be forgetting THAT shit no time soon. Yeah! Who fucking went to jail??!! You think every Black person is dumb as hell. Well some of us will be fucking your goddamn asses up and you won’t even know what hit your ass! Keep fucking with us!

Just because the world is now condemning some of your racist shit, you’re now going on and on about what the fuck you’re going to do about racism. Oh I know what the fuck you’re going to do about racism, white supremacy, white privilege and ALL of that shit, you’re going to continue that shit and ramp it up! Because now you get to pat your racist ass on the back and talk to Becky and Karen about what a great thing you’ve done by suggesting a petition to change what has ALWAYS been a racist name for a piece of shit burg, but you’ve been fine with the shit for hundreds of years and you are still fine with it. You just don’t want it to be said that the rest of the world toppled some fucking statues and pretended to de-fund the racist police while you sat back and didn’t even pretend to care about racism and what you’ve been aiming at American descendants of slavery since our ancestors were dragged here. Fucking stop, already! Nobody’s buying your bullshit! I’ve always had to explain why the fuck I’m headed to Lynchburg because no sane person thinks that a Black person should be living in Lynchburg. They don’t know that I was born here thanks to my piece of shit parents who didn’t have the wherewithal to get the fuck up out of here before bringing children into this world. If I had known any better, I would not have been born in this fucking burg. But that shit’s not on me.

‘Lynchburg’ suits your white racist asses to a fucking ‘T’ and so there ain’t no reason to change it, because your racist asses will still be here making life miserable for Lynchburg’s Black residents and so shut the fuck up about some goddamn lame ass petition!

In Memory Of The Charleston, South Carolina Mass Church Shooting Victims By A Racist Terrorist!

charleston shooting victims

A Nation That Has Never Let Love In

In a land that time has forgotten
 there lives a people of a much lighter hue.
 They rock back and forth on the porch
 and sip from a bottle of Mountain Dew.

But in this land that time has forgotten,
 there are others with a dark skin tone
 who simply try and go about their business.
And they just want to be left the hell alone.

Though innocent of any wrong doing,
 since they never asked to be here,
 they worshipped the god of another
 who said believe and never know fear.

So, on a hot southern night in June
 in the old weeping willow tree,
 the birds became quiet as the grave
 and no hum could be heard from a bee.

Hate slithered right up to the door
 of a church and was welcomed inside,
 where there was prayer and love everywhere.
And hate was welcomed with arms open wide.

But little did they know what was in their midst.
Or maybe in fact, they actually did
 know that life for them was at an end.
And that hate would close the coffin lid.

He hated them for the color of their skin
 over which they had no control.
They sat innocently around in a circle
 as hate filled them with many a bullet hole.

Oh god, where were you for these people
 who prayed and stayed true to their faith?
Are they truly in heaven with your son
 or is each just a lost and lonely wraith?

I cry for these souls of the south
 who never knew anything but hate,
 from those who taught them their religion.
But it was all just some worthless racist bait!

For they failed to teach it to their own.
If not, then why are these people dead?
They were killed by a son of death and hatred
 who believed that their blood would not flow red.

And to this day, hate must surely live on.
I hear the cry that the south will rise again.
And the statues and the flags that are still in view
speaks of a nation that has never let love in.

Written by,
Shelby I. Courtland
©2016 Shelby I. Courtland

A year later, Charleston families still reeling from church shooting

Many were surprised when Nadine Collier stood in a South Carolina courtroom a year ago and said she forgave the young white man who had just killed her mother and eight other black churchgoers in a racially motivated attack.

Collier’s sister, the Reverend Sharon Risher, recalls wondering how she could so readily absolve Dylann Roof, 22, the man accused of opening fire during a Bible study on June 17, 2015, at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston.

I can only shake my head over the fact that Nadine Collier ‘forgave’ that racist terrorist for killing her own mother and the other churchgoers. I am going to keep this respectful because this is in remembrance of these people who were murdered for no reason because the color of their skin was no reason to kill them. There was no way they could hide that. They could not cover it up or chop it off or pretend to be another color just for a few hours. They were indeed, born with a dark skin tone and for that, they had to die? No, they had to die because this nation is steeped in hatred and shall forever remain so!

My only hope is that these people who worshipped their god, found some…..some…..damn! I don’t even know what they could have found! And so, I shall leave it at that!

A Moment Of Kindness Amidst The Hate?

I just cannot make this shit up

Black cop helps ill man wearing a swastika T-shirt at KKK demo – moments after racist demonstrators chanted sick ‘gorilla’ taunts.

White supremacists came out to protest the removal of Confederate flag from South Carolina’s statehouse
A picture of a black police chief helping a man wearing a swastika T-shirt has gone viral after it was shared on Twitter

In one video, a white man with a shaved head makes ape noises to anger a black crowd in attendance at the rally

Another threatens to ‘hang your black *ss’ at the rally which drew at least 300 supporters of the Ku Klan Klan

But 400 New Black Panther Party members opposed them, and slammed the flag removal as ‘illusion of progress’
The opposing rallies come a month after racist 21-year-old Dylann Roof shot dead 9 black people in Charleston

So, let me get this straight, the white supremacists, who by the way, are related to every Black person in the south, are busy calling their brothers and sisters, ‘gorillas’. Shame! Shame! Shame! Didn’t our mother teach us that name-calling was a “no-no?” Now, my first cousin Bubba should know this and he is spoiling for a whooping since our mother is gonna tan his hide real good if’n she gets a hold of this.

“Bubba, you ain’t too big for mama to put you over her knee and give you a well-deserved spanking for acting ignorant in public. Ignorance is all very well and good so long as it’s not made public. You have shamed the entire family with your disgraceful display of ignorance. Now, close your mouth ’cause you ain’t been to the dentist in over 30 years and your breath just got the best of you. And now, your uncle’s(the police officer) got to help you sit down and try and recover from your chronic halitosis. Heat stroke, my ass! Bubba, I told you to stop throwing away those toothbrushes that mama kept buying from Wal-Mart! And what’s up with the swastika? Hitler’s been dead since 1945 although, I know you didn’t know this since I am your only educated cousin. And I’m educated because I left the south ’cause I was tired of being homeschooled by our horse named Mr. Ned seeing as how he was the smartest one of us all. And don’t forget, Bubba, I saw you having your way with one of the chickens. Mama never could understand why I refused to eat chicken that night for dinner and I got walloped upside the head for being too highfalutin to eat good southern grub. It just pains me no end to see that y’all ain’t even trying to let go of the past. What’s the matter with you? You don’t like the year 2015 for some reason? Or do y’all still think it’s 1861? The war is over and we lost, deal with it! You don’t think that I am ashamed of YOU? Why, when I’m asked for a picture of my family, I used to pull out a picture of the Huxtables, but since ole Bill’s been ‘outed’ for being a sexual predator, I’m now pulling out a picture of The Jeffersons.”

“Now, now Tommy, you just go back to the trailer park and stop telling your brother that you is going to ‘hang his Black ass! Just ’cause you still mad that your brother’s dick is bigger than yours and that you look like a boiled lobster from being out in the sun is no reason to go bat shit nuts. Your wife, Lula Mae promised to stay true to you even though she calls you ‘Little Dicky’ and has been found in the barn with your horse named Monster. So, technically, she ain’t messing around on you since messing around with a horse don’t count. So, you go home and kiss Lula Mae and just maybe, she’ll forgo her session with Monster tonight and give you a little lovin’ ’cause that’s all you need!”

“And for my new Black Panther brothers, power to the people! Pump, pump, pump it up!”

As serious a problem that hate is, it is truly ridiculous for people to pretend that they are somehow superior to others based solely on the color of their skin when so much rape was going on in the south and wherever slaves happened to be that many whites are afraid to look into their background for fear of what they’ll find. Oh they know and that’s what scares them because someone could be making ‘gorilla’ noises at them and burning crosses in their yard, if the truth be known that they are equally related to Black people. And this is in fact, a reality, just ask Craig Cobb, a former avowed white supremacist who found that he is indeed, filled with another supremacy, African roots. Dude is still pissed about finding out just where his roots lie and because of it, his credit score took a serious nosedive, not to mention, his credit cards have all been declined AND the white supremacists defaced HIS home. I say, “turnabout’s fair play!” LMAO!!

White supremacist home defaced by racist graffiti after revelations about his African DNA

And of course, I just couldn’t help myself! I took it and ran with it! LOL! Enjoy!

My God Is Color Blind!

burned church

I sing that old Negro spiritual
every time they come for me.
They drag my tired old body
down yonder to the lynching tree.

We pass by that old church
where we worshipped in your name.
They burned it to the ground.
All that’s left is just the frame.

I see that old confederate flag.
Sometimes I forget it’s there
But when they call me ‘nigger’,
I know it ain’t going nowhere.

Lest I do forget
let me recall to mind
that old Negro spiritual
“My God is color blind.”

I’ve lived through slavery and Jim Crow.
And I’m tired and in need of rest.
Take me in your arms Lord.
You know I did my best.

I sing this song, a song of love,
I won’t be burdened by hate no more.
The Lord will welcome me home.
I’ll be glad to see heaven’s door.

Written by,
Shelby I. Courtland
©2015 Shelby I. Courtland

Investigators Probe Fires At 6 Black Churches In 5 Southern States

Fires damaged Glover Grove and some other black churches in the days following the murders at Emanuel AME Church in Charleston, raising concerns that the incidents were hate-inspired arsons.

Glover Grove Baptist Church is nestled in a woody, quiet part of Warrenville, S.C., surrounded by trailer homes and old cars. The congregation is small, about 35 people, according to local reports. You have to look hard online just to find a phone number or an address.

Hours before President Obama spoke to a packed house in Charleston last Friday in another black church, delivering the eulogy for state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, Glover Grove Baptist Church burned to the ground.

It is one of at least six black church burnings in the South, all of which have taken place in the week-and-a-half since nine people were killed in Emanuel AME Church.

Whatever the cause of the Glover Grove fire, Adonica Simpkins says she will still be afraid. We asked her what it’s like to be a black person in South Carolina.

“I tell you what, I wouldn’t walk down this road. I wouldn’t walk down this road,” she said, sighing as she pointed down the road where Glover Grove sits. “It’s so much hate. You might walk down the road and hear the word n*****, for nothing. People used to be riding by, and just throw bottles at black folks.”

Less than half a mile from the church and Simpkins’ home, a Confederate flag waves on a front porch.

“We had another church that burned down, over across the woods there,”

And while we are busy celebrating same-sex marriage and worrying over fast tracking of the TPP, it is business as usual for Black people in this hellhole and I am supposed to give a damn because someone else feels that their rights are being violated? Seriously? Once again, walk a goddamn mile in MY shoes and then come talk to ME!

Black folks, I sincerely hope that there is indeed a heaven for if there is, you have certainly ‘earned’ your spot and my sincere hope also is that you need have no fear that you will meet up with those that have spewed nothing but hatred towards you because of the color of your skin and because you were dragged, unwillingly, to this shithole.

You Can Take Down The Flag!

flags

You can take down the flag
 but what it stands for still remains.
We cannot eradicate a heritage
 and wipe away its ugly stains.

In the hearts and minds of racists
 lies hate that will never die.
That flag means much to them
 as does the confederate battle cry.

The south IS the confederacy
 and shall forever remain so.
And by taking down the flag
 the hatred seed will grow.

If you’ve ever lived down south
 then you know this to be true.
They never lost the war.
In their minds, they beat the Blue.

“The south will rise again!”
 is still the battle cry.
Men of great position
 don’t even wonder why.

We all know where we stand
 and nothing much has changed.
By taking down the flag,
 hate will not be constrained!

Written by,
Shelby I. Courtland
©2015 Shelby I. Courtland

Yes, you can take down the confederate flag that flies atop the state capitol building in South Carolina. And Wal-Mart, Target and Amazon can discontinue selling it, but for all the good it will do, why bother? The confederate flag will still be available online and to anyone that wants to purchase one or two or three or 15,000. What you cannot take down or take away is the mindset of someone that is infested with irrational hatred. Those southerners that cling to the confederate flag, cling to it with the fierceness of a mother clinging to her child in a raging storm. Those people think that it is a disservice to their ancestors that died fighting for what they believed in; as atrocious, vile, disgusting, barbaric and filthy as it was, they consider the confederate flag as part of their rightful heritage. They don’t see what Black people see when we look at that flag.

Am I making excuses for that filth? Absolutely not! But I am a realist. And believe this! By taking down the confederate flag, it will only cause more problems than it will solve. For hundreds of years, the confederate flag was left undisturbed from where it flies and it was distributed by the likes of Wal-Mart and Target and many other stores just as the American flag was and is and speaking for myself, I am just as disturbed when looking at the stars and stripes as I am when viewing the confederate flag because the American flag does not represent me. It too, stands for barbarity, slavery, hypocrisy, torture, murder, Jim Crow; the same as what the confederate flag stands for. There is a difference?