Actor Wendell Pierce on Challenging Confederate History

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Talmon J. Smith
08/29/2015 4:31 pm EDT
Updated: 1 hour ago

... Pierce: It is a mis-education to say that New Orleans is a place of wonderful racial harmony. There's people that like to perpetuate that idea, so they don't have to deal with the hard truths.

But I like the fact that you define what happened in Charleston as domestic terrorism. It needs to be defined like that. Not just for the symbolic nature of it, but for the policy that goes with it. The policy in place with federal government, is that when something is declared a terrorist organization, that means all resources go to destroying, dismantling that organization, because they see it as a threat to the security of the United States. When are we gonna make that same threat on the White Citizens' Council and on the Ku Klux Klan?

I want people to have the right to wave the confederate flag. Wave it. You have every right. I want you to. Now I know where you stand ...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/talmon-j-smith/actor-wendell-pierce-on-k_b_8057498.html

[dixiegrrrrl]

1. and he asks a good question:

The policy in place with federal government, is that when something is declared a terrorist organization, that means all resources go to destroying, dismantling that organization, because they see it as a threat to the security of the United States.
When are we gonna make that same threat on the White Citizens' Council and on the Ku Klux Klan?