Woman publicly berates beachgoers for Confederate towel. A black vet intervenes, changes the narrative.

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A woman approached a group of Evanston, Indiana, beachgoers earlier this week and railed against them for using a Confederate flag towel as they lounged on Lighthouse Beach.

The incident was caught on video and quickly went viral.

An unidentified black male, however, interrupted her filming and completely changed the tenor of the argument.

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What are the details?

According to the Chicago-Sun Times, the woman — identified as LaShandra Smith-Rayfield — shared video of herself confronting the beachgoers on Facebook.

In the video, Smith-Rayfield can be heard telling the group that she was uncomfortable by the presence of the Confederate flag on a towel.

“That flag right there is my swastika,” Smith-Rayfield can be heard telling the group, insisting that she can’t feel comfortable in her own neighborhood because of the towel.

“[It’s] a racist symbol of hate,” she insisted.

As Smith-Rayfield railed against the group, a person she described as a man of color intervened, and defended the group’s right to use whatever towel they wanted — even if it bore the image of a Confederate flag.

The man, who remains unidentified at the time of this reporting, can be heard on the video telling the woman “Let’s not do this.”

She fired back, “This is the United States of America, not the Confederacy. … Why am I arguing with a man of color about this flag?”

The man responds by pointing out that he served in the U.S. military “to defend this flag,” and that she was the one who was out of line for harassing the group.

“Just leave them alone,” he can be heard saying. “People like you haven’t done s**t for this country.”

When it was clear that the woman would not see the unnamed man’s perspective, he left, but she remained undaunted.

Smith-Rayfield continued berating the group over the towel, and even reportedly offered to buy it from them for a sum of $20.

The group refused to sell the flag.

Content warning: Rough language

‘F***ing whole beach full of white people’ did nothing

One of Smith-Rayfield’s friends — notable activist and organizer Leslie Mac — also tweeted about the incident on Wednesday.

She sharing just a portion of Smith-Rayfield’s since-deleted video, she wrote, “TBH the more I think about it — the more I want to find that NB man of color — who TF is he? FR FR.”

Mac revealed that Smith-Rayfield — who she identified as a public school teacher — was irate after she saw a photo of the group lounging on the beach on social media.

“F***,” Mac wrote on Wednesday. “I am shaking right now. A college friend was just live on FB confronting a group of white people at Lighthouse Beach in Evanston (IL) that had a Confederate flag on display. She’s a Black public school teacher & drove down when she saw the flag posted on social media.”

She continued, “Y’all can watch it here – TW [trigger warning] for when the LONE person of color a non-Black man attacked my friend because ‘she’s the one causing the problem’, the Confederate flag holders were ‘minding their business’ and he ‘fought for their right to display that flag.'”

Mac also blasted the “f***ing whole beach full of white people” who “weren’t saying s**t about that flag being on display.”

Protest planned

Smith-Rayfield chimed in on the lengthy and profane tweet, thanking Mac for sharing the experience on social media.

“Thanks @LeslieMac for posting this. It’s been an emotional ride. It saddened me deeply that a fellow POC stood w/hate against me today. His actions gave them validation (dismiss the angry Black woman and embrace the self-loathing Black man). So sadly they learned nothing today,” she wrote.

On Thursday, Smith-Rayfield tweeted about Friday Facebook event — a protest to be held at the beach due to the incident.

The event, titled “NO ONE IS FREE UNTIL WE ARE ALL FREE,” aims to “[s]how up and protest the complicity of our neighbors.”

“Show Evanston that racism in all of it forms is not welcome here!! Your silence is as violent as the Confederate flag and Nazi tattoos!” the page continued. “Bring your signs and wear your mask!! Share[.]”



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8 Comments

  1. What a nosey Bitch! She needs to mind her own business! We certainly do NOT need her in our classrooms spreading hate. I have seen Black folks at the beach carrying 0towels like this!

  2. Many, many American boys died under that flag. The greatest military General at the time was General Robert E. Lee. The innocent boys that died, died under the Confederate flag. We lost the Viet Nam War. But we still honor all the boys that died and those that survived by flying the American Flag. Should we fly the Viet Nam flag because we lost? No, the BLM movement has set set this Country back about 120 years.

  3. I’m a yankee and all this hate from blacks is not only racist but they just don’t history, the confederacy did not just separate from the union for slavery read your history and it does not give justice to the blacks who fought for the confederacy in regimental size units and I still don’t know of any blacks Americans that are still alive from those days nor why are they not upset about the blacks who captured blacks in whole tribes and sold them to the white traders. I think you blacks need to see who really started this and then get on a boat go over to Africa and protest there p.s. I think the first recorded slaves where the jews captured by both the blacks and muslims opps did I say that show some sense people don’t let the Democrats divide you and just to stir up some more shit, what did the blacks ever do for this country or better yet the country they came from, did you build anything? Other then grass huts, what cities, memorials did you make to mark a great civilization gave me something. Just saying tell that teacher to research that. This country gave you all, that’s southern for all you blacks everything, how you forget, Lincoln saved you and what happened, you tore down or defaced his statues and you what to erace history like it never happened what fools you are. Hitler tried that and look what happened to him, all your doing is making more racism against you. Come take my Confederate flag down I’m waiting

  4. Come on!!! These people were bothering nobody, just sitting on the beach.. Why the f**k does she have to insert her big black nose into this.. BLM has gone to far and these “woke” black folks are just looking for someone to start a fight with. If this woman is a teacher in their school district, I would move my family out of there and you would see nothing but dust!!
    Since when does a towel create such hate?? This woman wasn’t and isn’t a slave, nor does she have any right to condemn such an innocent thing like a beach towel!!
    I am sick and tired of these priveleged idiots who have absolutely no patriotism for this grand country.. I fought for this country under the stars and stripes in the Nam. war and have no problem with statues, flags, or anything else.. Let live and let live.
    These people are just attempting to drag this country down to nothing, burning and looting for what?? not for some poor guy who was killed, but for the 70 inch flat screen that they can steal…..
    “GOD BLESS THE U.S.A.” and all of its people…. good and bad…..

    1. You can thank the 8 year Presidency for causing all this mess. I think BLM means Barak Lost his Mind.

  5. i think people should mind their own business and get their own house in order rather than spending their time berating someone else! i was in
    Vietnam, and it wouldn’t bother me for someone to fly the Vietnamese flag! i thought we were fighting for people to be free?

  6. So your BLM is more important than that flag? Ya need to re-read your Constitution again young lady!

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