Mel Brooks, not me.

Black Suspect Arrested After Racist Message Discovered Outside Predominately Black Church

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (CBS4)– A Colorado Springs man was arrested after police believe he left racist messages outside a church.

Vincent Broughton, 44, who is black, is facing charges for committed a bias-motivated crime and disorderly conduct.

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Of course Mel Brooks has said that he wouldn’t be allowed to make that film in today’s Hollywood. Fortunately, I don’t think there is in a glimpse of a a Confederate flag in the movie, so we can watch it without guilt.

Unlike the Dukes of Hazzard. Which I thought was dumb way back when it was a new program and haven’t seen anything in the intervening years to change that opinion. Of course, if TV producers only made shows I like, they’d have about 20 viewers.

The point being that free speech is being attacked in this country. The First Amendment is intended to protect offensive speech. I find it oddly ironic that the people who think that burning an American flag is free speech can’t seem to understand that showing a picture of a flag that they don’t like is the same thing. Actually, they do understand it, but they believe that the First Amendment applies only to them, no one else.

No wonder they don’t think that ISIS is a threat.

If you’re reading this and you are offended, as a friend of mine says, you didn’t get the joke.