Confederacy-loving student shown in viral flip-off photo kicked out of Christian college
Source: RawStory
SARAH K. BURRIS
21 AUG 2017 AT 11:06 ET
Allen Armentrout of Pensacola, Florida was kicked out of school after he wore a Confederate uniform to Charlottesville, Virginia.
Video footage revealed Armentrout dressed in the uniform, carrying a Confederate flag and saluting a statue of Robert E. Lee, according to the Pensacola News Journal. A crowd surrounded chanting terrorist go home as he stood motionless.
He told the paper that he wanted to make the trip to Virginia because he wanted to take back the history of his ancestors he felt the KKK and Nazis were misinterpreting. He said he hoped to share the true history of the South and push back against Neo-Nazis he feels have wrongly latched on to Confederate history.
I went up there to represent what I believe is right, he told the News Journal.
Read more: http://www.rawstory.com/2017/08/confederacy-loving-student-shown-in-viral-flip-off-photo-kicked-out-of-christian-college/
dalton99a
(81,677 posts)Idiot.
lastlib
(23,356 posts)DownriverDem
(6,233 posts)The south has been trying to change the history of the Civil War and why they started it. The secession documents for each of the southern states explains very clearly what they were fighting for. Besides states rights means that the states have the right to do what they want. And for the south that was to keep slavery.
Every time I think of the south and slavery, I just want to puke. I would never live there.
liquid diamond
(1,917 posts)I don't know why some people are proud of that region of America considering its fucked up history and continuous racism against POC.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)What other areas of the country or world will you not set foot?
Fortunately, millions of people have learned that my adopted state of Florida has places that are priceless.
And my home state of Louisiana has one of the most iconic cities and cultures in the US.
Have a nice evening.
PNW-Dem
(244 posts)Unfortunately, you would have to exclude a lot of the United States. Fun fact, did you know that there were slaves in New York?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_slavery_in_New_York
Botany
(70,635 posts)I went up there to represent what I believe is right, he told the News Journal.
Like owning human beings as slaves?
http://www.dailyprogress.com/news/local/n-c-man-in-confederate-uniform-with-rifle-in-emancipation/article_8fece36c-81c8-11e7-9a3c-bb3e2637cc8d.html
winstars
(4,220 posts)IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)and it has nothing to do with him wearing the uniform and waving the flag of people who fought a bloody war against the United States in order to continue ownership of human beings as property?
Seems legit.
obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)I read that and was like wth?!
He also had an AR-15 slung over his shoulder, so he was also armed. A week after teh Nazi assaults and murder.
IronLionZion
(45,615 posts)who are obviously more deadly than you could possibly understand. It's dangerous out there.
secondvariety
(1,245 posts)was packing a pistol. What an ass.
LakeArenal
(28,863 posts)Calls the racist with the rifle sir, the blames the finger woman as the problem.
Aristus
(66,509 posts)eat grass and acorns, just like your ancestors did, doing what they believed was right...
riversedge
(70,417 posts)Runningdawg
(4,527 posts)the military will still take you, that is if you live past basic training in the pork chop platoon.
ProgressiveValue
(130 posts)Private Pyle
Still In Wisconsin
(4,450 posts)What a specimen.
Joe Chi Minh
(15,229 posts)Wouldn't he be too obsese to pass the army medical ? I believe it was a recruitment problem a few decades ago. I wonder if they give the troops a better diet in the services. Not force-feeding them corn syrup and what have you.
Hassin Bin Sober
(26,352 posts)I'm not picking on him because he is chunky. I'm picking on him because he looks like Kent Dorfman who, by the way, would never be a Nazi.
smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Remarkable likeness!
obamanut2012
(26,181 posts)Fuck this kid.
Grins
(7,257 posts)"Christ. Seven years of college down the drain. Might as well join the fucking Peace Corps." - John "Bluto" Blutarsky.
thucythucy
(8,109 posts)obamachangetheworld
(121 posts)Sounds like he was brainwashed by the alt-Right terrorist recruiters who push the idea that the Civil War was about anything other than the perpetuation of slavery.
politicat
(9,808 posts)PCC has a rep. They're a known broken stair in the Christians who criticize the practice of Evangelical Christianity world. Anyone who has read Love Joy Feminism, Slacktivist, Sam Fields, or No Longer Quivering knows that any post with PCC in it is going to be harrowing -- sexual assault, misogyny, racism, more racism, back for seconds on the misogyny, homophobia, and a doggy bag of racism to take home.
Yonnie3
(17,515 posts)I don't know where that is coming from. Heather Heyer Died Saturday and he was here Tuesday morning. Her memorial service was Wednesday. Feelings were still raw.
catbyte
(34,517 posts)button on his silly "reb" uniform?" "Fat, drunk, & stupid is no way to go through life, son."