Summary: Melissa Alford, 47, threw a large birthday party for her 25 year old son, her 6 year old grandson, and another 7 year old in the neighborhood. Things were fine until an armed group, calling themselves "Respect the Flag" showed up and pulled out guns, threatened to shoot, while also exchanging some racist comments. They also had the Confederate flag on their vehicle as well as on themselves, which makes sense seeing as the group was all white, and the party was majority black.
Analysis: This was written Friday, March 3, 2017 (yesterday) but the real event happened about 2 years ago. This article catches up with the family and the group who terrorized the party. Two members of the group were sentenced to 6 and 13 years in jail respectively. Iin an interview with Alford, who threw the party, she still says she lives in fear that it will happen again and that it will go further. To me, this is absolutely disgusting. Unfortunately, it seems as though racism will always exist no matter what, and although we had been coming closer to equality in America, due to the recent election, that's kind of come to a halt.
Synthesis: This whole idea of threatening people with violence due to thinking one race is superior to another is a lot like the KKK restricting African Americans from voting using violence and force which let to Congress passing the Force Act of 1870, which made doing that illegal.
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/03/us/douglasville-confederate-flag-birthday-party-children-racist-threats/index.html
This is terrifying to hear about. It is just horrible when basically a hate group ruins something as innocent as a children's birthday party.
ReplyDeleteThat's absolutely awful. I hope they are tried and punished properly.
ReplyDeleteI hate that this kind of thing still exists today. It's sad.
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