The spontaneous, intimate prayer circles that formed outside the Emanuel AME Church the night of the horrific #CharlestonShooting have since been displaced in the streets by a rally to have the Confederate flag taken down all across South Carolina, particularly at the State House.
@BaltoSpectator Groups like NAACP and NCAA already boycott all of SC because the flag is flown at the State House. Time to #TakeItDown.
— Lindsey Willard (@lindseyrwillard) June 20, 2015
Mashable’s Colin Daileda and Buzzfeed’s Joel D. Anderson were in Columbia, S.C. today to cover the #TakeItDown rally.
Just so you all can see how close the Confederate flag is to the Capitol building. #TakeItDown rally. https://t.co/pNJnjjfDUT
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
More from the #TakeDownTheFlag rally here in Columbia, which is scheduled to get started at 6 pm pic.twitter.com/jzeqgSgKhz
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) June 20, 2015
Another look at the #TakeItDown rally in Columbia, SC. Around 2,000 here, I'd say. pic.twitter.com/OFPxRK3QlW
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
From the #TakeDownTheFlag rally. pic.twitter.com/0Xd8FmcWnJ
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) June 20, 2015
Signs at the #TakeItDown rally. People calling to get the Confederate flag off the SC state Capitol grounds. pic.twitter.com/G3FMysG5NB
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
Someone wasn't quite as excited about having her picture taken. Guess who? #TakeDownTheFlag pic.twitter.com/bBS5p5C6ps
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) June 20, 2015
"Would you fly a swastika?" #TakeItDown rally. pic.twitter.com/gIZbzPUELJ
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
Kids making signs. #TakeItDown rally. Columbia, SC. pic.twitter.com/4F45ISAFVG
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
#TakeItDown rally. pic.twitter.com/AFYr0fmeCe
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
It's a college town so of course there's dudes with a guitar, tambourine, and banjo. #TakeDownTheFlag pic.twitter.com/iPRIXteGxj
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) June 21, 2015
Some harmonica action at the #TakeItDown rally. https://t.co/fAJIqxrPrR
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
That should do it.
Some #TakeItDown protesters facing the street outside the SC Capitol building. pic.twitter.com/06n6O6g5SV
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
Calling out the South Carolina governor at the #TakeItDown rally. pic.twitter.com/6Hj9lu72wP
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 20, 2015
"Since I've been alive we've been trying to get this flag down," Kristie Jordan, of Columbia, SC. #TakeItDown rally. pic.twitter.com/X9k0bZWD7A
— Colin Daileda (@ColinDaileda) June 21, 2015
Nice of MoveOn.org to pitch in with some preprinted protest signs. And Code Pink’s Medea Benjamin made an appearance as well.
Drove from DC to Columbia, SC for rally against horrible confederate flag on state house #takeitdown #ameshooting pic.twitter.com/ebRR4TsVE2
— Medea Benjamin (@medeabenjamin) June 21, 2015
"The flag still up, tho" – @deray, probably pic.twitter.com/NJZo1HxjWk
— Joel D. Anderson (@byjoelanderson) June 21, 2015
Professional agitator DeRay Mckesson has already compiled an inventory of the impediments to the literal taking down of the Confederate flag in Columbia.
The confederate flag is tightly protected, chain is only at the top, hard to get to to take down. Columbia. pic.twitter.com/4SOyAuTber
— deray (@deray) June 21, 2015
@deray Is there still a booth there for a guard to watch over it?
— JL Sigman (@JLSigman) June 21, 2015
@deray cut down the pole
— John Minnihan (@jbminn) June 21, 2015
https://twitter.com/JustSayTeeJay_/status/612423099754106880
@deray the flag can be burned…now who can get up there is the question
— Ju. ? (@SweetDanger_Me) June 21, 2015
Your country needs you, DeRay. Climb.
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