[VIDEO] I can't just show this video without a story about this in case you're not that interested in what O'Reilly says about this story.
In a Facebook post published on the Fourth of July, the Black Lives Matter (BLM) Utah chapter declared the American flag a hate symbol.
“When we Black Americans see this flag we know the person flying it is not safe to be around. When we see this flag we know the person flying it is a racist. When we see this flag we know that the person flying it lives in a different America than we do. When we see this flag, we question your intelligence. We know to avoid you. It is a symbol of hatred,” the statement read.
Lex Scott, founder of Black Lives Matter Utah, said the intention of the inflammatory post was to generate a reaction and show how the flag is being co-opted by extremist groups, The Salt Lake Tribune reported.
“The point of the post was to make everyone uncomfortable,” Scott said. “The American flag is taught to us from birth to represent freedom, life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.”
Scott noted that her sentiments were triggered by the sight of photos depicting members of far-right organization Patriot Front marching through Philadelphia carrying the American flag on the eve of the Fourth of July.
“They’re flying American flags. The Ku Klux Klan is flying American flags. The Proud Boys are flying American flags. They climbed the Capitol for their failed insurrection and were beating police officers with American flags. I have not heard any outrage from Republicans or the right about the use of the American flag as a hate symbol,” Scott said.
Allow to combine this social media post with a tweet from a sitting Member of Congress who referred to America as stolen land and there is only freedom for "white people". The rest of the world is seeing this and laughing at us, we're not together and the way things are going we'll never be together.
Believe it or not all people who fly the stars and stripes aren't racist. Many believe the freedom we have in this nation is for everyone. And any injustice that happens to any American regardless of their ethnicity or race is something that upsets them. And those same Americans who wave the U.S. flag are equally upset when hate groups like the ones mentioned above wave that flag as they don't represent the best of America.
So that fb post which I should screencap as perhaps one day it will be deleted is more shortsighted and inciendiary than particularly thoughtful.
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