I don’t know what else you call a group that fires on federal property because they’ve failed at the ballot box. I don’t know what you say to people who fly the flag of gleeful defenders of slavery and insist that the flag was ‘never meant to be racial.’ I don’t know what you tell someone who claims the spirit of the Revolution, and then flies the flag Thomas Jefferson’s declared intellectual enemies.
Ta-Nehisi Coates, on why it’s wrong to fly a Confederate flag on the Fourth of July. (via theatlantic)
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