Whose flag is this? Does anyone know?

[Katzndogz]

The Front Lines of Ferguson «

This is an article, with pictures, by a black man, certainly sympathetic to the looters in Ferguson. His pictures are pictures that the media doesn't show. Some of those pictures are of the looters carrying a flag. Can anyone identify this flag?

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Afro-American flags (U.S.)

"Green, black, and red are the Garvey colors, after Marcus Garvey, a civil rights movement leader. If I recall correctly, he promoted the "returning to Africa" -- if not geographically, at least by "rediscovering" the ancestral heritage of afro-americans.
Antonio Martins, 11 December 1997

The colors are as represented on the flag, Red, Black and Green (not Green, black and red ) and did indeed evolve from Marcus Garvey's UNIA movement. However, the colors were adopted by an international assemblage of 25 countries of the African diaspora, thereby making the colors international.

African Americans have held proudly onto their banner for the past 78 years hoisting it under various titles: International African Flag, The African Flag, Pan African Flag, Liberation Flag, Black Flag, African American Flag, Afro-American Flag and others. Yes, the colors were hoisted first in the United States and, it represents all peoples of the African Diaspora regardless of land of birth.

Rasta colors and The Pan African (Garvey Flag) colors not the same and should not be confused. Rasta colors are the Ethiopian colors of green, gold and red.

Beatrice C. Jones, 16 November 1998

The RED, BLACK and GREEN Flag was unveiled to the world by the Honorable Marcus Mosiah Garvey and the members of the Universal Negro Improvement Association and African Communities League, of the World at it's first international convention on August 13, 1920. The UNIA-ACL knew that Africans at home and abroad needed their own flag as other flags around the world could not represent the collective of African people.

The use of Red, Black and Green as colors symbolizing African nationhood was first "adopted by the UNIA-ACL as part of the 1920 Declaration of Rights as the official colors of the African race. The question of a flag for the race was not as trivial as might have appeared on the surface, for in the United States especially, the lack of an African symbol of nationhood seems to have been cause for crude derision on the part of whites and a source of sensitivity on the part of Afro-Americans.

The race catechism Garveyites used explained the significance of the red, black, and green as for the "color of the blood which men must shed for their redemption and liberty", black for "the color of the noble and distinguished race to which we belong," and green for "the luxuriant vegetation of our Motherland.

Nnamdi Azikewe, 12 April 2000

My understanding is that Garvey thought (erroneously) that these were the colors of ancient Ethiopia - the Ethiopia of today was known as Abyssinia at the time Garvey proposed the flag.
Devereaux Cannon and Ned Smith, 10 July 1999

My understanding is that Marcus Garvey was thinking of contemporary Ethiopia, which in the 1920's was the only African country that had never been colonized. He became aware of his error as to its national colors at the time of Haile Selassie's coronation as emperor, but by that time the red/black/green flag was too well established to be changed.
John Ayer, 10 July 1999 "

 

[Katzndogz]

Thank you. Now we know a bit more about the looters than we did before and why the media isn't showing those pictures.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Guy carrying the flag wasn't looting.

 

[Katzndogz]

Guy carrying the flag wasn't looting.

He was carrying the flag for the looters.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

No one in that picture is looting. There's a guy with a bullhorn and some others and they're walking. No where near a retail shop let alone doing anything illegal.

 

[Delta4Embassy]

Show me the looting in that picture

 

[TruthSeeker56]

Show me the looting in that picture

Is this your "gotcha" moment?

Are you saying that there has NOT been a lot of looting and civil disobedience going on?

Are you defending the behaviors of the anarchists who are causing this social unrest?

 

[LoneLaugher]

Show me the looting in that picture

Is this your "gotcha" moment?

Are you saying that there has NOT been a lot of looting and civil disobedience going on?

Are you defending the behaviors of the anarchists who are causing this social unrest?

That's retarded.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Nice fail thread.

 

[TruthSeeker56]

Show me the looting in that picture

Is this your "gotcha" moment?

Are you saying that there has NOT been a lot of looting and civil disobedience going on?

Are you defending the behaviors of the anarchists who are causing this social unrest?

That's retarded.

Thanks for your profound, thought-provoking opinion, Larry The Cable Guy.

 

[Bush92]

It's the flag of terrorism.

 

[Asclepias]

Thank you. Now we know a bit more about the looters than we did before and why the media isn't showing those pictures.

I dont see anyone carrying that flag and looting do you?

 

[Asclepias]

It's the flag of terrorism.

Wrong flag.

 

[Bush92]

BTW, Marcus Garvey was deported because he was a con-artist.

 

[konradv]

It's the flag of terrorism.

So is this, but people display it all the time!

 

[Asclepias]

Show me the looting in that picture

Is this your "gotcha" moment?

Are you saying that there has NOT been a lot of looting and civil disobedience going on?

Are you defending the behaviors of the anarchists who are causing this social unrest?

No stupid. He saying the person carrying the flag has nothing to do with the looting. Do you see him looting?

 

[Bush92]

It's the flag of terrorism.

Wrong flag.

Got one hanging in my home. The flag a people who fought against federal tyranny.

 

[LoneLaugher]

Is this your "gotcha" moment?

Are you saying that there has NOT been a lot of looting and civil disobedience going on?

Are you defending the behaviors of the anarchists who are causing this social unrest?

That's retarded.

Thanks for your profound, thought-provoking opinion, Larry The Cable Guy.

Yeah? Next time say something remotely connected to the thread. You asked two fucking retarded questions of D4 given the comments that he made in the thread.

 

[Bush92]

It's the flag of terrorism.

So is this, but people display it all the time!

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Whats wrong with the honor of the stars and bars and a people trying to defend themselves from an invasions by an immigrant army that does not even speak English, and most of whom are criminals? Oh, well,meet Ferguson, Missouri.