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votesparks

(1,288 posts) Sun Jun 28, 2015, 10:35 PM Jun 2015

Bree Newsome, American Hero

Bree Newsome, a 30-year-old youth organizer from Charlotte, North Carolina, climbed a flagpole in Columbia early on Saturday morning and removed the Confederate flag flying in front of the capitol building.

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Bree Newsome, American Hero (Original Post) votesparks Jun 2015 OP

Watch it. She has incredible class. longship Jun 2015 #1

Bree is a hero Gothmog Jun 2015 #2

She is definitely a hero, an activist and a community organizer brush Jun 2015 #3

Bravo. nm rhett o rick Jun 2015 #4

K&R Solly Mack Jun 2015 #5

Have her give a speech in Philly next July. Ken Burch Jun 2015 #6

YES! People should be ready to take down that flag merrily Jun 2015 #7

Brava!! bvf Jun 2015 #8

She honorably joins Rosa Parks in the Halls of History and I am humbled. joanbarnes Jun 2015 #9

longship

(40,416 posts)

1. Watch it. She has incredible class.

Reply to votesparks (Original post)

Sun Jun 28, 2015, 10:52 PM

Jun 2015

And some guts, climbing 30 feet up a flag pole. I couldn't do it, even when I was her age.

Highly recommended. She is my favorite hero this week.

Gothmog

(146,018 posts)

2. Bree is a hero

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Sun Jun 28, 2015, 11:32 PM

Jun 2015

brush

(53,978 posts)

3. She is definitely a hero, an activist and a community organizer

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Mon Jun 29, 2015, 12:07 AM

Jun 2015

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Those community organizers sure seem to rise to the top, dontcha know sarah palin.

rhett o rick

(55,981 posts)

4. Bravo. nm

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Mon Jun 29, 2015, 12:22 AM

Jun 2015

Solly Mack

(90,803 posts)

5. K&R

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Mon Jun 29, 2015, 12:49 AM

Jun 2015

Ken Burch

(50,254 posts)

6. Have her give a speech in Philly next July.

Reply to votesparks (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 12:49 AM

Jun 2015

She inspires the nation.

merrily

(45,251 posts)

7. YES! People should be ready to take down that flag

Reply to votesparks (Original post)

Mon Jun 29, 2015, 01:15 AM

Jun 2015

time and and again, each and every time they run it up the flagpole again.

Good for her.

bvf

(6,604 posts)

8. Brava!!

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Mon Jun 29, 2015, 01:26 AM

Jun 2015

joanbarnes

(1,724 posts)

9. She honorably joins Rosa Parks in the Halls of History and I am humbled.

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Mon Jun 29, 2015, 10:43 AM

Jun 2015

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