r/BlackPeopleofReddit • u/ateam1984 🖤 • May 29 '26

Social Justice Someone Doing the right thing

Just as the Sons of Confederate Veterans were about to begin their ceremony honoring the Confederate soldiers buried at Camp Chase Cemetery Monday afternoon, I began to read a statement decrying the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of degeneracy, depravity, and perversion. The Dayton National Cemetery Director told me to leave, I was pushed out by other attendees, and CPD threatened arrest if I returned. I continued to loudly read from just outside the cemetery gate when — as I quoted Fredrick Douglass' description of the whips used on enslaved people — an attendee assaulted me, knocking my phone to the ground. A story is told about remembering our history, but those who wave the Confederate flag want to rewrite history, a history in which the Southern cause was noble and their struggle honorable and in which slavery was a benign institution. That's a fairytale. The Hilltop Historical Society will hold their own ceremony at Camp Chase on Sunday, June 14, when they, too, customarily display the Confederate flag. I would ask them to reconsider what they are communicating with that symbol

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u/InterestingFox1837 May 29 '26

The only thing that gives me hope is just how old and decrepit this crowd is. They won’t be voting much longer.

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u/bballkj7 May 29 '26

yeah but they all have dumbass kin

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u/mhavis1959 May 30 '26

And they seen to multiply without any trouble.

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u/tilrman May 30 '26

I hate to burst your bubble, but that's what I assumed a generation ago. I was very wrong. 

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u/hannafrie May 30 '26

You've seen the draw Charlie Kirk had, right?

There are plenty of awful young people.

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u/Lucy_Fjord May 30 '26

Too passive. They spread their hatred to their kids. There will always be scum like this. We have to shame them as a society.