Baron Coleman & Takiyah Thompson: Two Sides of Hate/Josh Moon

Baron Coleman and Takiyah Thompson are polar opposites in almost every way. Coleman is an affluent, college-educated male with an above average IQ. Thompson is a young black female who may not have finished high school, much less attended college.

Coleman is very good at multi-tasking. He's a Montgomery attorney, something of a shock-jock at a Montgomery radio station, and heavily involved with Mike Hubbard and the recent court case involving corruption in our state legislature. On Sunday he tweeted the following:

 "When you protest in the street, sometimes you get hit by a car. #Charlottesville"

Coleman later complained that the public was taking his Tweet in the wrong way. Well, Baron, an innocent woman died; that does make people just a little sensitive when you ridicule her death. 

Baron Coleman, if not an actual hater, is indifferent to both the first amendment and human life. Yet that same first amendment allows him to ridicule the dead. What that first amendment doesn't do is allow one to destroy property, especially state property.

That's where Takiyah Thompson, 22, comes in. She toppled a statue in Durham, North Carolina, honoring those who served in the C.S. Army. If anyone has missed it, there's a growing number of ill-informed individuals who consider the 18 year-old dirt farmers who were forcibly conscripted into the War Between the States to be as evil as Simon Legree.  

Thompson was part of a rally that included members of the Triangle People’s Assembly, Workers World Party, Industrial Workers of the World, and Democratic Socialists of America. She's been charged with felonies...which she may be able to plead down to misdemeanors. Still, things don't look good for Thompson's future job possibilities. 

No matter which side of hate a person is on, he/she is wrong. Want to change the world? Do it legally. Don't like a person's politics? Try to change their way of thinking using logic, not vehicular assault. 

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Josh Moon is a writer who has been affiliated with several publications based in Montgomery. Originally from Decatur, Moon sometimes offers brilliant journalism...as in about 20% of the time. The other 80% he's condemning the status quo, anything conservative, and most recently Confederate monuments.

He's stated these monuments represent both bad ideas and bad people. See above reference to 18 year-old dirt farmers. We replied to one of his Tweets with the above graphic. Strangely, his answer to us was seemingly lost in cyberspace, but we are left to infer that if the bad people were Nazis, it's completely fine to forgive them...just don't offer that same forgiveness to our brothers and sisters.