{"id":20496,"date":"2020-06-22T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20496"},"modified":"2020-06-22T09:37:25","modified_gmt":"2020-06-22T13:37:25","slug":"call-it-what-it-is-the-traitors-flag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20496","title":{"rendered":"Call it what it is&#8230;the traitor&#8217;s flag&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the fight over a stinking flag took a turn yesterday in the hotbed of traitors, Alabama, when nascar made good on banning the &#8220;traitor&#8217;s&#8221; flag from their venues&#8230;okay, and let&#8217;s call that flag what it is&#8230;it is not &#8220;the confederate battle flag&#8221;&#8230;calling it that imbues it with some sort of veneer of acceptability&#8230;.remember, it is the traitor&#8217;s flag, flown by traitors who tried to tear this country apart just so they could continue to own slaves&#8230;and don&#8217;t give me the bullshit that the war was about &#8220;states rights&#8221;&#8230;in the constitution of the confederate states, it states bluntly that protection of the institution of slavery is the reason they were trying to destroy the US&#8230;and every fact based historian agrees that is the reason&#8230;and it wasn&#8217;t &#8220;brave or noble&#8221; to tear apart this country and kill almost a million Americans for slavery, so let&#8217;s cut that bullshit out too. Just yesterday, the racists in Alabama put on a show at Talladega speedway where they had a rally outside the gates with hundreds of traitors flags and they even flew a huge one over the track just to make their point that they are a bunch of racist asses&#8230;and that point was driven home by the discovery of a noose hanging in the garage of the only black driver in nascar, Darrell Wallace, whose suggestion that maybe, with the nation getting on board with the &#8220;black lives matter&#8221; movement, it would be a good idea to get rid of the racist symbol of traitors and make the sport a little more welcoming to everybody. It was heartening to see the response to this racist thuggery as swift and sure condemnation of this hate crime&#8230;and unlimited support of Darrell as he tries to do his part to make this country a better place&#8230;as I do&#8230;it&#8217;s about damn time that we have this conversation&#8230;but it is the 50th time in my life that this &#8220;conversation&#8221; has happened but just the conversation&#8230;it is past time to take on the racist assholes in this country and tell them to go back under the rocks they crawled out from&#8230;.their time has passed and they deserve to be thrown on the ash heap of history along with their traitor&#8217;s flag&#8230;.keep it up Bubba, we&#8217;ve got your back&#8230;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well&#8230;the fight over a stinking flag took a turn yesterday in the hotbed of traitors, Alabama, when nascar made good on banning the &#8220;traitor&#8217;s&#8221; flag from their venues&#8230;okay, and let&#8217;s call that flag what it is&#8230;it is not &#8220;the confederate battle flag&#8221;&#8230;calling it that imbues it with some sort of veneer of acceptability&#8230;.remember, it is &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/?p=20496\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Call it what it is&#8230;the traitor&#8217;s flag&#8230;<\/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":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[2595,16,2215,2596],"class_list":["post-20496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-darrell-wallace","tag-nascar","tag-racists","tag-traitors-flag"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20496"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20499,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20496\/revisions\/20499"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jamesdevol.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}