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A suggested re-design of the American flag

"In America, we take a day off to celebrate the 4th of July, and not the 15th of April, because in America, we celebrate our independence from the government, not our dependence on it."

- Scott Walker - a man who's spent his entire adult life only working in government - egging on his supporter's self-imposed historical amnesia (as if he had to) November 4, 2014

What whites - with and without the government - did to everyone else

"[Clyde] Ross had tried to get a legitimate mortgage in another neighborhood, but was told by a loan officer that there was no financing available. The truth was that there was no financing for people like Clyde Ross. From the 1930s through the 1960s, black people across the country were largely cut out of the legitimate home-mortgage market through means both legal and extralegal. Chicago whites employed every measure, from 'restrictive covenants' to bombings, to keep their neighborhoods segregated. 

Their efforts were buttressed by the federal government,..."

- Ta-Nehisi Coates, revealing Scott Walker as a liar, June 2014