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After the Discovery of Dylann Roof's Website, the Council of Conservative Citizens Is Running Scared

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goddamnedfrank6/20/2015 9:53:14 pm PDT

I’m glad that Mitt Romney called for taking down the Confederate Flag from the SC Statehouse. However, maybe I’m just being a dick but “To many, it is a symbol of racial hatred” seems just the teensiest bit like a qualification.

My point is basically right now I’m not interested in creating any space for those hardheaded motherfuckers who aren’t saying that’s exactly what that flag is. Because it’s that and more. It was put up to instill terror in the black populace and civil rights workers in the 60’s, and it is the flag of a defeated traitorous slave holding government. So I’m not exactly interested in hearing “to many, it is a …” type bullshit. I want to hear “to everybody out there with half a functioning brain this shit is straight up horrifying and inexcusable.”

Yes, I know I’m being unrealistic, because I’m talking about Mitt Romney and it’s some species of minor miracle that he was able to say something about this that wasn’t the verbal equivalent of a tire fire. But still, c’mon, we all know what that flag is about, and it ain’t heritage or pride, and we don’t need to leave space right now for people who say it is. Because those people are fucktards.