The Secesh category archive
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Field explains why today’s Republican Party is determined to gut out the vote.
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I’m a Southern boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and attended segregated schools. I know how to decode de code.
Today’s Republican Party wants to bring those days back.
Indeed, they’re not even trying to you-will-pardon-the-expression white wash it any more.
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If you don’t like historical fact, well, heck, just go with historical fiction.
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At AL.com, John Archibald grieves the Supreme Supremacist Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act. He notes the role that events in Alabama, from Selma to church bombings to the murder of civil rights activists, had in leading to the passage of civil rights legislation in the 1960s, then laments:
That Alabama would erase the brave, peaceful, legacies of Lewis and Martin Luther King and so many more is not surprising. That the federal courts would ignore those moments of hard fought freedom, the acts that gave meaning to the promise of equality, is something else.
It is heartbreaking, a halt to the progress of the 20th century, a twisting of the arc of the universe away from its just destination.
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Thom talks with David Daley about the Supreme Supremacist Court’s efforts to gut the Voting Rights Act and the legal fictions created to you-will-pardon-the-expression white wash the ruling.
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If you don’t like historical fact, why, just teach students historical fiction.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
At AL.com, John Archibald hears a rhyme from a long ago time. Here’s how he opens his article:
The words of the notorious John B. Knox come to mind.
“And what is it that we do want to do?” he asked. “Why, it is, within the limits imposed by the Federal Constitution, to establish white supremacy in this State.”
It was May of 1901, 125 years ago this month if it sounds like yesterday . . . .
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*Mark Twain.
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The Rude One argues that the Supreme Supremacist Court has traded in their robes of black for the gray.
(Warning: Rudeness.)
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At AL.com. Kyle Whitmire reports that, in Alabama, the New Secesh are already planning to take advantage of the Supreme Supremacist Court’s recent decision further gutting the Voting Rights Act.
Image via Job’s Anger.
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Doug Jones sums up the Trump maladministration’s attempt to prosecute the Southern Poverty Law Center for being:
“This is a pure political retribution,” Jones said in a video posted to social media.
Follow the link for context.
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John Young argues that it’s obvious why Donald Trump broke precedent to attend the Supreme Court arguments over the Trump maladministration’s effforts to get rid of birthright citizenship as guaranteed in the 14th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States of America. A snippet; follow the link for his reasoning.
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The Trump maladministration’s campaign against diversity, equity, and inclusion shouldn’t be called “anti-DEI.”
It should be called what it is: Resegregation.
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Michael in Norfolk has a rather disturbing notion as to what is behind the Republican thought police’s efforts to whitewash America’s history.
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In its editorial calling out the Trump maladministration’s violation of the Constitution in arresting Don Lemon, a journalist, for having the unmitigated gall to practice journalism, my local rag makes this telling observation:
I commend the entire piece to your attention.
