Black speaker at
pro-Confederate rally was reportedly chased after speech
20/7/15.
Kit Daniels, Prison
Planet.com An African-American who was a long-time Confederate flag supporter died after reportedly being chased by a car and ran off the road following a flag rally.
The
victim, 49-year-old Anthony Hervey, was found dead in a flipped-over 2005 Ford
Explorer near Oxford, Miss., on Sunday and a passenger in the vehicle, Arlene
Barnham, said that after leaving the pro-Confederate Flag “Monumental Dixie”
rally, they were chased by a silver car which then swerved into their Explorer,
causing it to crash.
“HELP!
They after us,” Barnham posted on Facebook during the chase. “My vehicle inside
down.”
“Anthony
pinned in… gas leaking.”
The pair were both speakers at
the rally and Hervey in particular was well-known for wearing a Confederate
uniform in support of Southern heritage and for writing the book, “Why I Wave the Confederate Flag: Written by
a Black Man.”
The MacAlester News-Capital
contacted the Mississippi Highway Patrol, which confirmed the accident but
declined to give further details as the crash is still under investigation.
Although
shocking, this incident is not surprising given the government-driven purge of
the Confederate flag which has only stirred up racial tensions within America.
Not long
after President Obama publicly attacked the Confederate flag, people were filming themselves
stealing Confederate flags off of people’s private property.
This
lunacy is possible because many Americans are completely ignorant of
multifaceted history of the so-called Civil War, which was a war waged by the
federal government against Southern states threatening to use the Tenth
Amendment to secede.
Unfortunately,
the ignorant routinely victimize well-educated individuals like Hervey who know
history.
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