Art Imitates Life: Who’s Playing Bree Newsome in the Comic???

After a hugely dramatic week stretch that included Marriage Equality becoming the law of the land, Supreme Justice Kennedy dropping the hottest mixtape verse of the year, it all came after the renewed debate over the confederate flag and its place in American symbolism and public representation. While South Carolina began to bury the nine innocent bodies of those killed in Charleston, SC on June 17th, the confederate flag, long a symbol of not only the South but it’s lost rebellion (and you know racism according to the man that created the flag in the first place) flew over Statehouse. Well, it didn’t for a short while at least. Your newest superhero has presented herself, and if it surprises you that a Black woman climbed a 30 foot metal pole and took down Confederate Flag, then you haven’t been paying attention to the #BlackLivesMatter movement. Sorry, I might have buried the lead; Brittany Ann Byuarium Newsome or Bree when she’s donning her cape and climbing gear, pulled herself up a damn 30 FOOT POLE. Retrieved the flag, detached it from it’s Cat’s Bird Seat, climbed back down and returned that shit to the Earth. Bruh…How am I supposed to watch quarterfinals for American Ninja Warrior after this when their biggest achievement after accomplishing a similar feat is promoting their own gym at the end of an obstacle course. Art by @Niall_JayDub [divider type=”space_thin”] Captain Newsome’s origin story is different from your standard superhero because it didn’t have some h…