This past week has been filled with trash. It started with the terrorist attack on Mother Emmanuel church in Charleston, South Carolina where nine innocent lives were taken.
The garbage kept piling, though. The terrorist responsible for the attack was captured and placed in front of the judge. The magistrate may be removed from his post after he made a statement prior to presiding over the hearing for the terrorist. He yammered something about love and how both “sides” have victims.
Hot garbage
Trash.
Then the madness about the confederate flag and its importance to history
The grown man responsible for the attack on Mother Emmanuel is a racist. He wrote about it in his manifesto and is seen with the confederate flag in pictures.
As an act of symbolism, and maybe a hint of coalescence, South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley said that the state’s legislature should work to remove the flag from the capitol.
For what it’s worth, Senators Tim Scott and Lindsey Graham are both in agreement with Haley to take the flag down.
But here’s the thing about that: it’s just more trash man.
Black pain and its mere existence seems to elicit eye rolls and hard sighs from some people.
Just last year Haley said that the flag was cool to stay. She said that CEO’s weren’t complaining about it, so because jobs were coming to the state, the flag’s place was just fine.
Funny how a terrorist attack on one’s state will insert some form of sobriety, right?
Smile away the indignity
Yeah, here’s the thing about Haley’s new found religion on the flag. Kick. Rocks.
It took praying black people to lose their lives for some to recognize just how harmful a set of stars and bars can be to the psyche.
Same goes for Graham and the rest of the conglomerate who wish to note that the flag isn’t simply about racism. I mean, Jeb Bush said that he didn’t know if the attack on the church was racially motivated.
Graham, like Haley, changed his position. Just a few days ago, he said that the flag was “part of who we are” and that it “represents–to some people– the Civil War.”
Thing about that pesky Civil War that people keep bringing up? It was about slavery. So tell me again what type of heritage is steeped in the right to keep people in bondage against their will?
I’m telling y’all, trash has been the adjective to describe this last week.
So to recap: Nikki Haley’s press conference to call for the removal of the flag means nothing. Lindsey Graham and Tim Scott standing in harmony and racial unity with her meant even less.
We have a real nasty habit of claiming racial accord with one another after a traumatic event. We can come together over anguish after an event has happened but we usually turn a deaf ear to the warning cries prior to the event’s happening.
Once again, Governor Haley and the rest of the politicians who have placed empty calls for unity, healing, and forgiveness may kindly step off of the Ravenel Bridge into a shark’s mouth.
Because up until this point, your only concern was about how black rage impacted your life, not what’s causing it.
-JH
photo credit: 9-12 March in DC-58 via photopin (license)
photo credit: Nikki Haley via photopin (license)
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