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[–] [email protected] 124 points 1 year ago (5 children)

Richard Bradley shinnied up a flagpole in front of San Francisco City Hall for the second time in as many days yesterday to tear down a Confederate flag he finds offensive. When he got to the ground, after ripping the flag to shreds and throwing the pieces to the ground, he was arrested and charged with malicious mischief. He was arrested on the same charge Sunday after he climbed the same flagpole and tore apart another Confederate flag

Absolutely based.

[–] [email protected] 78 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Stories like this always make me feel like the Confederacy won

[–] [email protected] 105 points 1 year ago (3 children)

"the union won the war, the confederacy won the peace" is how my college prof put it

[–] [email protected] 62 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 26 points 1 year ago

100%. Reading about how reconstruction was mercilessly crushed is heartbreaking and infuriating.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 50 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I mean the Reconstruction happened under Andrew Johnson, so pretty much.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 1 year ago

why black man no stand for flag??? frothingfash

[–] [email protected] 45 points 1 year ago (1 children)

after ripping the flag to shreds

Jesus Christ dude had to have been

spoilerripped

fidel-cool

[–] [email protected] 24 points 1 year ago

Free-climbing fifty feet up a narrow metal pole requires a good bit of practical strength.

[–] [email protected] 33 points 1 year ago

a Confederate flag he finds offensive

thin skinned snowflakes smdh