Although much of mainstream media focused on the “Unity Chain March” across the Arthur Ravenel Jr. Bridge in Charleston on Sunday, a group of peaceful protesters saying they were the Charleston chapter of Black Lives Matter took to the streets on the previous day to honor the nine victims of the Emanuel AME Church shooting on Wednesday, June 17 and urge the public to speak against oppression.
Charlottean and Creative Loafing contributor Zach NeSmith drove down with a group of friends to join the marchers and took the following photos. According to NeSmith, the march lasted about a mile. The marchers started at the Wraggs Mall, passed AME Emanuel and came to a stop in front of the Confederate Museum.
This article appears in Jun 17-23, 2015.
what pitiful lives that they think a flag is the root of their problems,their own country is so bad even the amazing race tv show vowed never to return
Liberal Stupidity at its best.
Remove the flags. Remove the statues and monuments. Continue to rewrite history.
It won’t change one single thing.
Rewrite history? What part of the following are they rewriting: Slave owning and slave economically driven states attempt to break up the United States causing the largest loss of life by Americans in any conflict. Oh, and they LOST.
Conservative stupidity at it’s best.
Pretending that a bloody attempt to tear a country apart that resulted in the death of hundreds of thousands of Americans motivated by the desire to continue to own other humans was a great honorable endeavor and the perpetrators were heroes.
Look around you. Every white supremacy hate group in the last century has proudly waved that flag. It has no place on a government building.
DLP writes: “stupidity at it’s best.”
Irony alert. Learn to spell three-letter-words before accusing others of “stupidity”. Note that The Plain Truth spelled “its” correctly.