Some black people are so whipped up over the Confederate flag \u2014 and eager to silence the free speech of others \u2014 they\u2019re willing to be run over by moving vehicles to do it.<\/p>\n
Video <\/a>captures a black man running up to a semi in slow-moving traffic on the highway to rip off a Confederate flag from the truck\u2019s tailgate.<\/p>\n The Grio, a black news website, grabbed the video from Twitter and posted it, with James Brown\u2019s \u201cThe Payback.\u201d<\/p>\n The video shows the unidentified man trotting behind the truck, struggling to remove the flag. After several moments, he rips it off and gets out of the road.<\/p>\n The site reports the truck \u201cappears to be a part of \u2018TRIBE Transportation, Inc.,\u2019 a company ironically owned by a Native American woman.\u201d<\/p>\n For whatever reason, Grio called the company to tell on the driver and get reaction.<\/p>\n \u201cAny issue like that we\u2019d handle internally,\u201d TRIBE Executive Vice-Preisdent Matt Handte said. \u201cRegardless of what happened, that\u2019s something we\u2019d handle internally.\u201d<\/p>\n Source: The American Mirror<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Some black people are so whipped up over the Confederate flag \u2014 and eager to silence the free speech of others \u2014 they\u2019re willing to be run over by moving vehicles to do it. Video captures a black man running up to a semi in slow-moving traffic on the highway to rip off a Confederate … Continue reading “Black man rips Confederate flag off moving truck”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2961,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10],"tags":[2113,2676,1653,12075,157],"class_list":["post-19680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","category-united-states","tag-african-american","tag-confederate-flag","tag-free-speech","tag-native-american","tag-racism"],"cc_featured_image_caption":{"caption_text":false,"source_text":false,"source_url":false},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2961"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19680"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19682,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19680\/revisions\/19682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/praag.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}