Burning a Confederate Flag

This took place on June 17, 2000 in Newark, NJ, and was organized by People's Organization for Progress. About 50 people participated in the rally, including poet Amiri Baraka (who holds the flag down with his foot here at one point) and some people later identified to be members of the Klan watched from a car in a parking lot across the street. They never got out their car.

This was in response to the then-controversy of South Carolina's flying of the Confederate Rag atop of their statehouse dome. Other Southern States that had, like South Carolina, flown the flag in protest of the Civil Rights Act, had since brought them down. South Carolina refused to do so, launching a boycott of the state. In July 2000, two weeks after this video was shot, the flag was finally taken down amid pressure.

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• Newark
• NJ
• protest
• racism
• klan
• hate
• flag
• usa
• Amiri
• Baraka
• confederate

[nastypiece0saurus]

Is this legal for one...and secondly, if you are going to burn the confederate battle flag, then why not burn the Flag of the United States of America that first flew in January 1777 until the present and under which Blacks suffered under Slavery & racism longer than any time in American History!

Are you going to burn the Mexican flag or the Irish Flag or the Saudi Arabian flags next?

Your actions reflect your ignorant mentality...

[NoPawn]

@nastypiece0saurus Yes, it was legal. They even obtained permits!

[William4948]

You people are morons. The confederate flag is a sign of southern pride. The American civil war was fought over state rights not slavery. You will respond with "BUT THE KKK USED IT AS THEIR FLAG!!!" They also used the American flag. Those who fly the confederate flag do it because they are proud of the south. Try to educate yourself next time you decide to burn a flag and put on the internet.

[southernpride288]

these guys are pricks they are burning my flag when it stand for heritage not hate and standing up for the corrupted gov.

[NoPawn]

@TheWhiteBeerBong How long we would last? Really? Then I guess we ARE better than the people who fly the flag!

[TheWhiteBeerBong]

@NoPawn

From what you just said, doing this makes you no better than the people who fly the flag.....the Southerners who fly it are seeking attention...trying to be different.

By shouting and burning it publically, you're doing the same exact thing.

I like how u did this in a group of your own.....do this in East Texas/Mississippi and see how long you last.

[logandw13]

@1:08 is where it should be and just stay there

[NoPawn]

@yeehaw1972 The only trash in this video was put in the trash can - after it as burned to embers...

And I didn't know "chump" had an expiration date.

[d4rkn351]

MOTHEFUCKERS! ANYONE SHOOT 'EM PLEASE

[yeehaw1972]

@sarahdestiny123 damn i like you!!!!!!!

[yeehaw1972]

@NoPawn people still use the word chumps? lol This video just shows there are black trash brown trash and yellow trash as well as white trash.

[ZParalyzer]

@sarahdestiny123 Kiss your country ass? More like your corny ass.