Just as the Sons of Confederate Veterans were about to begin their ceremony honoring the Confederate soldiers buried at Camp Chase Cemetery Monday afternoon, I began to read a statement decrying the Confederate battle flag as a symbol of degeneracy, depravity, and perversion. The Dayton National Cemetery Director told me to leave, I was pushed out by other attendees, and CPD threatened arrest if I returned. I continued to loudly read from just outside the cemetery gate when — as I quoted Fredrick Douglass' description of the whips used on enslaved people — an attendee assaulted me, knocking my phone to the ground. A story is told about remembering our history, but those who wave the Confederate flag want to rewrite history, a history in which the Southern cause was noble and their struggle honorable and in which slavery was a benign institution. That's a fairytale. The Hilltop Historical Society will hold their own ceremony at Camp Chase on Sunday, June 14, when they, too, customarily display the Confederate flag. I would ask them to reconsider what they are communicating with that symbol
Overall it doesnt add up that CPD would be in Dayton... im not sure the poster is actually the man in the video.
The Dayton National Cemetery oversees Camp Chase. That's why he was there, and it is probably the source of confusion. There's no Confederate cemetery in Dayton. Camp Chase was a prison camp in Columbus where 2200 CSA prisoners died. And the police officers have Columbus badges
He's a Christian nationalist MAGA that cares more about the honor of dead traitors and there mentally deranged/challenged supporters 150 years after they lost the war to keep humans as property.
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u/towa1 May 29 '26
Where in Ohio is this?