Kristi Noem had better bring Grand Wizard Donald back to South Dakota to hold another rally against far-left radicals. The raging liberals in charge of Gettysburg, South Dakota, have removed the racist, traitor flag of the Confederacy from its police department logo. After frequently and unwaveringly defending the racist, treasonous symbol carried by his police department with the heritage-not-hate lie, Mayor Bill Wuttke is revising history along with his police logos to make it sound like his administration had nothing to do with the Confederate logo:
“The patch that has been the focus of media coverage in 2020 was applied in 2009 solely by the authority of the office of police chief,” Mayor Bill Wuttke and the Gettysburg city council said in a joint statement. “This officer is no longer employed by the city of Gettysburg” [Morgan Matzen, “Gettysburg City Council Confirms Police Logo with Confederate Flag Has Been Removed,” Rapid City Journal, 2020.07.06].
One local racist tried to hold the line against the “left” that his President and Governor dog-whistled him about last weekend at Mount Rushmore, because fighting against racism and treason is just “crazy stuff”:
Gettysburg resident Mark Braaten spoke in favor of keeping the Confederate flag on the patches and police department equipment, saying that to him, the Confederate and Union flag depicts unity between two warring sides.
“Someone has to come into this community and say ‘hey this is racist,’ but nobody said anything about it being racist for all these years. It’s a symbol of two sides coming together living in peace and harmony,” Braaten said during Monday’s meeting.
“This stuff with the left and all this crazy stuff in a small sleepy town, a great community — and this has to happen. It shouldn’t happen. I feel we shouldn’t cave into the left. We have very few officers, a sheriff, sure hate to see something happen to them because they’re here to serve and protect us. That’s all I have to say and I just hope for the best” [“S.D. Town Moves to Remove Confederate Flag from Police Patch,” Forum News Service via Twin Cities Pioneer Press, 2020.07.06].
But the non-white-privileged among us understand why that racist, traitor symbol had to go:
“I want to thank you for the unofficial removal and ask that it be permanently put in place,” [Gettysburg resident Shannon Johnson] said. “We get a few traveling nurses at the hospital that are of color, and they do mention it because it is a nationally known story. I just wish that it would all disappear.”
Jamie Clapham, of Rapid City, said as a Black woman in South Dakota she fully supports the removal of the Confederate flag from the patch.
“It was discouraging and disheartening to see the Confederate flag — a symbol of oppression and hatred — on official government uniforms of any municipality,” Clapham said. “I applaud the city of Gettysburg for doing the right thing. Recognizing the simple act of its removal is an indication to the people who look like me that they want to be welcoming and not exclusionary, or be identified as a group who is complicit with racism” [Matzen, 2020.07.06].
Now Gettysburg will need to make new patches for their cops. Hmm, maybe they can hire Tiffany Langer and use one of her leftover flag designs. And maybe they can even invite Governor Noem to speak at the unveiling of the new logo. I’m sure she’ll have some soothing, uniting words of inclusion to share about this positive change in Gettysburg.
Methinks someone in South Dakota is confusing “uniform” with “unifying.” Just because the symbol is placed on a uniform does not signify unification of anything.
G Floyd uncle lives in Gettysburg, wonder if he was at meeting?
“the Confederate and Union flag depicts unity between two warring sides.”
“It’s a symbol of two sides coming together living in peace and harmony”
WOW!
Great news!
https://dakotafreepress.com/2017/05/23/new-orleans-mayor-lays-bare-white-supremacist-meaning-of-confederate-symbols/
Good for Gettysburg and every POC.
Always good to close with a dollop of sarcasm. I enjoyed it. Thanks Cory.
T, I read in this morning’s paywalled Aberdeen paper that Selwyn Jones wasn’t able to be at the meeting but feels the council is sweeping the issue under the rug. He’s glad to see the patch go, but he’d like to see an explicit renunciation of the racist patch rather than the bland statement the council issued Monday night.
Thank you CH
He has a business in Gettysburg I was wondering as I believe if memory serves me right, he asked 3-4 years ago for removal…..
I found it interesting the blame was on previous employee and no official apology to the citizens and/or taxpayers.
The city took the weaselly way out.
It isn’t true that the patch hasn’t been an object of contention before George Floyd. We’ve had this discussion before, many times, always with the same resolution–none at all.
“Our new profile picture is the patch worn on the uniforms of the Gettysburg Police Department. It is not racist and it will not be changed. It is representative of the history of the City of Gettysburg. If you think different, please visit our museum to learn why this is so. Thanks and have a great day!!”
Huff post 2015
Police department statement
Apparently we don’t have to go to museum to “find out “ any more
Genl Berger is leading the no-brainer elimination of stars and bars, confederate-named facilities, and pockets of white supremacy in the military. NPR interview-Supreme Allied Commander NATO
Great common sense success. Unity, not division. That is terrific leadership.
The Roger Cornelius Memorial Cartoon by Marty Two Bulls.
https://www.gocomics.com/m2bulls/2020/07/09
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The comment sounds like the lazy one-off of a bully not inclined to return for engage in reasoned discourse. But if he does (and people casting insults like the above are almost always male, and white, and, like all bullies, insecure), he’ll be subject to the same rules as every other commenter: leave a recognizable name and a functional email address, and respond to my email with your real name to demonstrate you aren’t just a foreign bot sowing discord and misinformation.
Encounter racist magats all the time at Field Negro blog. Field does not, for the most part, censor any comments. He wants his readers to see first hand what they are up against. Storm Front and dead Breitbart are missing beaucoup morons.