{"id":9859,"date":"2015-06-21T14:12:03","date_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:12:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9859"},"modified":"2015-06-21T14:12:03","modified_gmt":"2015-06-21T14:12:03","slug":"flag-hatred-racism-tragedy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9859","title":{"rendered":"Flag = hatred, racism, tragedy"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/dylann-roof1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone  wp-image-9860\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/dylann-roof1.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"dylann-roof1\" width=\"417\" height=\"242\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Can there be any clearer understanding of why so many Americans despise the Confederate flag and what it symbolizes to them?<\/p>\n<p>Dylann Roof is accused of killing nine black members of a Charleston, S.C., church. He shot them to death while studying Scripture with them in the church. The picture here shows the young holding the flag symbolizing\u00a0the hatred he reportedly holds in\u00a0what passes for his heart.<\/p>\n<p>Southern pride? Southern heritage?<\/p>\n<p>I suppose so, if you believe that the Confederate States of America was right to secede from the U.S.A., and then\u00a0launch the\u00a0Civil War, the bloodiest conflict in American history. And why did the CSA do that? Because it\u00a0believed in that euphemistic &#8220;states rights&#8221; issue &#8230; which included allowing states to sanction the enslavement of human beings.<\/p>\n<p>Dylann Roof&#8217;s fate has yet to be determined.<\/p>\n<p>His past, as illustrated by this photograph discovered by his racist manifesto, includes this symbol of hate.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Can there be any clearer understanding of why so many Americans despise the Confederate flag and what it symbolizes to them? Dylann Roof is accused of killing nine black members of a Charleston, S.C., church. He shot them to death while studying Scripture with them in the church. The picture here shows the young holding &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=9859\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Flag = hatred, racism, tragedy<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[926,1014,1104,1106,1108,1490],"class_list":["post-9859","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-charleston","tag-civil-war","tag-confederacy","tag-confederate-flag","tag-confederate-states-of-america","tag-dylann-roof"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}