A Black woman rode the DC Metro alone on the Fourth of July, surrounded by masked men on their way to march for a white America.
Patriot Front brought about 400 members and their Confederate flags to the capital’s 250th birthday. None were arrested, and they were gone before lunch. But a photographer caught that train car, one woman seated among men who believe her race makes her inferior. Where do you go on a moving train?
The men who founded this country signed their names to a public document announcing treason and dared King George to oppose them. These men hid their faces and waved the flag of an armed insurrection against the United States that killed more than 360,000 of our soldiers. Their cowardice is now part of the official record of the celebration of America’s 250th anniversary.
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