She is not saying LOOK AT ME! She is saying LOOK AT US! LET'S Go!

Nothing is Impossible: Black History and Black Futures as a Flag Falls

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She knows EXACTLY what she's doing. She's saying "watch me." She's saying "let's go.


At dawn on June 27, 2015, Bree Newsome (with support from local activists) scaled the flag pole in front of South Carolina’s courthouse in Charleston. She took down the Confederate flag. Her spotter, James Ian Tyson, dressed as a construction worker, supported her from the ground as she went up and remained as a handful of police officers appeared and surrounded him until she came down. Bree was immediately arrested.

In the continued aftermath of the Charleston massacre, as black communities across the country struggled to hold space for death and disaster (once again), and make sense of another terrorizing attack on their humanity (once again), Bree’s act of defiance (courageous in the extreme and accomplished with the support of local activists) lifted spirits around the country and the world. I know I was waaayyyyyy up (felt blessed). I wasn’t the only one:


brittany @bdoulaoblongata

The removal of the flag by @BreeNewsome and her team was the greatest planned direct action I've seen. Ever.
10:41 AM - 27 Jun 2015

Bree of the House Newsome. First of Her Name. Climber of the Pole. Flagslayer. @BreeNewsome

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I am not speaking in the first person here. I do not speak for you, I speak with you.

As Bree said, let's go.