*For the reason that Nice Riverfront Revolt of 2023, the white folding chair has emerged as each a figurative and literal image of energy within the tradition.
Not solely is the chair in numerous hilarious memes however it’s turn into a go-to weapon in a number of post-Riverfront encounters between white aggressors and Black individuals simply making an attempt to do their job.
On-line activist Tariq Nasheed posted a viral video exhibiting a Karen strolling behind a counter to confront a Black employee, solely to be slammed to the bottom and kicked again down by the sista, who grabs her chair and threatens to proceed the beatdown earlier than a white man drags the lady away to security.
An aggressive Karen tried to come back across the desk and get bodily with a sista on her job. The sista delivered a Harriet Tubman Take-down. Adopted by a Coretta Scott King Kick. She was about to complete with some Montgomery Chair motion, however somebody got here to avoid wasting the Karen… pic.twitter.com/avgk5rQXXz
— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) August 11, 2023
Nasheed additionally posted video of a Black man in mid-chair fight, thwacking a white man exterior of a enterprise. “One other brotha received the folding chair spirit recently-this time in Detroit. What did I let you know about that #BlackAugust vitality?,” the caption learn.
One other brotha received the folding chair spirit recently-this time in Detroit.. What did I let you know about that #BlackAugust vitality? pic.twitter.com/rDMzzNbqUT
— Tariq Nasheed 🇺🇸 (@tariqnasheed) August 10, 2023
Police say the person wielding the white folding chair turned himself in on Friday (Aug. 11). Reggie Ray, 42, was being held in Montgomery’s Municipal Jail on prices of disorderly conduct. Per WSFA 12, he’s the primary particular person of 5 to be charged who was not a white attacker from the pontoon boat. The opposite 4 charged with misdemeanors had been related to the personal pontoon that blocked the world the place the riverboat, Harriott II, wanted to dock.
A complete of 13 individuals had been detained within the aftermath of the brawl, which occurred in Montgomery’s Riverfront Park. Three males and one lady had been charged with third-degree assault, a misdemeanor in Alabama, as is disorderly conduct. All these charged are from out of city, Mayor Steven Reed stated in a information convention Tuesday.
In the meantime, Black Twitter has been busy discovering new methods to meme-orialize the sudden symbolic nature of the folding chair.
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— Dee Batch (@Dee_Batch) August 11, 2023
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— Wu Tang is for the Kids (@WUTangKids) August 8, 2023
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— Naima Cochrane (@naima) August 7, 2023
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