........it was an act of kindness.
`17-Year-Old Black Girl’s ‘Mind Is Blown’ After Encounter with Confed. Flag Guy`
`t’s a common narrative from many in the media and on the left: Liberals are tolerant and kind, while conservatives are mean-spirited, intolerant racists.
That may have been what a teenage girl initially assumed about a man she encountered last week, but it turns out that she was the one with who had prejudged others.`
On Wednesday, a 17-year-old Twitter user who uses the name “Chan” ended up stranded with her father on the side of the freeway. She wasn’t expecting a Southern “redneck” to stop — but what happened next surprised the teenager even more.
According to Chan, a rough-looking man wearing a Confederate flag T-shirt and tattoos approached the girl and her father. For reasons that will be clear in a moment, it must be pointed out that the teenager is black, while the tattooed stranger was white.`
The teenager might have expected a confrontation from a “racist hick.” Instead, it was an act of kindness.
"so my dads tire blew up on the freeway and this dude, with a confederate flag tattoo, wearing a confederate flag t-shirt, with confederate flag car stickers, stopped and changed our tire. My mind is blown, don’t judge a book by its cover y’all "
Then she summarized the most important realization from the incident: Narratives don’t always hold up, and individuals are much more than their appearance.
“What I’ve learned though is not everyone sees it that way,” she said about the Dixie flag. “Y’all associate the flag with different sentiments, not necessarily racist ones.”
By simply recognizing that displaying a 150-year-old flag doesn’t make someone a horrible racist, the teenager showed that she was much more “woke” than many on the left."
https://www.westernjournal.com/ct/17...l-confederate/
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