Black Man Defies Hateful Protesters to Their Faces, Carries American Flag Right Through 'CHAZ'

By C. Douglas Golden

Published June 17, 2020 at 11:20am

www.spokesman.com/stories/2020/jun/14/dubbed-a- lawless-state-by-some-the-chaz-or-chop-se/">The Spokesman-Review of Spokane, Washington, has dubbed the CHAZ — the “Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone,” which is basically a 2020 reboot of the Occupy Wall Street rabblements set in the American Northwest, taking over six blocks in Seattle for some sort of vague experiment in alternative living — the city’s “newest neighborhood” and said it was trying “to create its own narrative.”

I suppose coming from the remove of Spokane, in the eastern part of Washington state, the CHAZ might appear like a 1960s kind of utopian project, something we’ll all look back on as a “social change ecosystem” (to use the words of one participant) that sparked some small modicum of change in our political and cultural consciousness.

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From a closer vantage point, however, it looks less like Woodstock and more like Altamont.

Don’t ask me, though, ask an African-American man who tried to carry an American flag through “Seattle’s newest neighborhood.”

The video of the event was posted to Twitter on Sunday by www.westernjournal.com/protesters-take-city-hall-help- council-member/?ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter- WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal">Andy Ngô, chronicler of all things antifa in the Pacific Northwest, as well as TheBlaze’s Elijah Schaffer:

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Now, the CHAZ community was sparked by the protests that followed the death of www.westernjournal.com/fred-weinberg- system-not-blame-george-floyds-death/? ff_source=Email&ff_medium=newsletter- WJ&ff_campaign=dailyam&ff_content=western-journal">George Floyd, whose neck was knelt on for nearly nine minutes by a Minneapolis police officer during a May 25 arrest. Nominally, then, you would think one of their goals is to give black Americans more of a voice.

Here’s a black American. He has a political point to make. He decided to show his support for the United States by carrying a flag. And what did we get?

“Keep on walking you race traitor a– b—-.”

Several of the CHAZ participants then decided they wanted to take the flag, leading to one individual telling them to “de-escalate! De-escalate!”

Ngô also alleged that there was “[a] woman carrying an American flag [who] was robbed moments earlier,” although there doesn’t appear to be video of that.

So, how do you square this with the values one might ascribe to the “social change ecosystem” of CHAZ? Well, to quote one of the people involved in a video where a street preacher was held down, “the Autonomous Zone has the right to reject you.”

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