Assault on Capitol Building: Why Some Trump Supporters Wore the Confederate Flag
Some attackers on the Capitol carried the Confederate flag. Photo: Reuters via BBC Mundo / Courtesy
Wednesday was a dramatic day that revealed the deep political polarization that exists in the United States.
On the one hand, hundreds of supporters of Donald Trump stormed the Capitol in Washington, a compound that represents the most sacred of American democracy, waving the controversial flag symbol of oppression, racism and white supremacy.
On the same day, Georgia, a southern conservative state that was part of the Confederate States that fought in the American Civil War against the abolition of slavery, elected the first black senator in its history: Raphael Warnock.
Warnock's victory -a pastor of a church Baptist church in Atlanta, where civil rights leader Martin...