Tennessee, Louisiana, Georgia, and South Carolina are actively attempting to redraw congressional lines to reduce representation of Black voters. White supremacists are more emboldened than ever to show their true colors and terrorize their Black neighbors. Confederate flags hang from their doors, their cars, and are planted lovingly at their gravesites. Each flag is a reminder that minorities are not safe in this violent settler colony.
As anarchists, we recognize electoralism as a dead-end strategy for the pursuit of our liberation. At the same time we must also recognize these redistricting efforts as the resurgence of neo-Confederacy, Jim Crow, and genocidal intent to erase Black southerners from public life. Liberals are already planning their permitted marches to express their outrage. Perhaps they will vote extra hard for the primaries. This does not threaten the white supremacists carrying out their fascist desires. We would like to propose a different form of solidarity.
Get together with your friends or your affinity group. Map out where the confederate flags, monuments, and plaques are in your community. Remove as many of them from the public eye as you can. Do the same with the american flag while you’re at it, as it represents the same horrific white supremacy. Set them all on fire, confederate and american, on July 4th! Or whenever you want.
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