Here’s What It’s Like Inside A Pro-Confederate Flag Rally (DC)

[struggle4progress]

BY ALICE OLLSTEIN & EMILY ATKIN
SEP 5, 2015 3:21PM

WASHINGTON, D.C. — More than 1,300 people were expected to attend a “Southern Heritage” rally in support of the Confederate flag on Saturday in front of the U.S. Capitol. Less than 50 showed up ...

Looking across the park at a cluster of anti-Confederate protesters — who far outnumbered his own group — Feathers added: “If Robert E. Lee was alive today, this shit wouldn’t be going on. That’s when we had a true American in office.”

Feathers, a registered Democrat who believes President Obama is planning to declare martial law and “rule the whole world,” said he’s been organizing “flag rollings” across Virginia ...'

“We are the Confederacy,” Meerman called out. “Look at the person standing to your left and right. That is the Confederacy. We are it” ...

http://thinkprogress.org/justice/2015/09/05/3699034/confederate-flag-rally-capitol-hill/

[yourout]

1. Feathers should be glad ObamaCare has expanded mental health coverage.....he needs to use it.

What a fricking wacko.

[struggle4progress]

2. "Why don't any history books even mention Lee's presidency?"

[struggle4progress]

3. Confederates Cry Victim at D.C. March

TINIEST VIOLIN
Joshua Albert
09.06.1512:01 AM ET

... “I’m sick and tired of people lying about that flag and lying about us,” exclaimed Ginny Meerman, of Maryland. “I’m sick and tired of people lying about the Confederacy. We’re not racist. We’re not haters. They <pointing to counter-protesters> are the racists. They are the haters.”

She also added, “There are black Confederates. I have black family members that are Confederates. What does skin color have to do with Confederacy?”

During her speech, she referred to the larger group of people counter protesting “these goings on like this over here dills my pickle. I mean. I am restraining myself because I am a Southern belle. But bless their little hearts if I got a hold of them in a quiet alley somewhere” ...

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/06/confederates-cry-victim-at-d-c-march.html

[Fred Sanders]

4. Trump voters....racists and bigots and forever trembling in fear and just sadly stupid but very much in the minority and supported

only by their closed circuit media playing on a loop in their closed circuit half a brain.

The GOP "minority outreach" to this pathetic clutch of...50.....is working just as planned. What, you did not think they meant not-white minorities??