The Secesh category archive
Built-in Bias 0
Writing at Psychology Today Blogs, Karim Bettache takes a penetrating look at how structural racism permeates society. (Structural racism is that thing that racists and their dupes, symps, and fellow travelers say does not exist because they don’t want to admit that it does.) Furthermore, he suggests that it’s a world-wide phenomenon that can be traced back to the age of empire, when European nations used racism–that is, white superiority–to help justify rationalize subjugating foreign lands and peoples.
Bettache cites research that demonstrates that children start absorbing racist messages from the culture almost before they learn how to talk, let alone learn how to read or think critically. Here are a couple of snippets from his article:
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For black girls, discrimination based on hair texture is a common experience that reinforces their position as outsiders in some environments. Some schools have even prohibited natural hairstyles, considering them “unruly” or contrary to policies requiring a “professional” appearance (Macon, 2014). The message is that to succeed and be accepted, black women must conform to white norms rather than embrace their cultural heritage and identity. Such policies inflict psychological harm and perpetuate racist beliefs that natural black hair is somehow unkept (sic) or unclean.
Given the efforts of the New Secesh to rise again, I think his piece is well worth the few minutes it will take to read it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Tampa Bay Times, historian Charles B. Dew takes Florida Governor DeSantis to task for perpetuating America’s first big lie. He cites an example from early in DeSantis’s career, when DeSantis taught history (or, at least, his version of history). A nugget:
How does this interpretation hold up?
Not very well, the overwhelming majority of American historians working in this field today would say, and I am among them.
(“Not very well” is–er–a bit of an understatement.)
Follow the link to see what the Secesh themselves said to explain why they took up arms.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The “Green Book” returns:
According to the NAACP national headquarters, the advisory is a “direct response to Governor Ron DeSantis’ aggressive attempts to erase Black history and to restrict diversity, equity, and inclusion programs in Florida schools.”
Details at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and still spreading America’s first Big Lie.
Aside:
The next time someone tells you that the Civil War was about “state’s rights,” ask, “The state’s right to do just what, exactly?”
Still Rising Again after All Those Years 0
They just can’t seem to stop themselves from idolizing icons of iniquity.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
A Florida teacher celebrates Confederate History Indoctrination Month.
The next time you hear someone spout off about “state’s rights,” ask, “The state’s right to do just what, exactly?” and see what distraction dance he or she breaks out into.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom makes a case that Republicans and the NRA are quite willingly orchestrating a misdirection play about gunnuttery to obscure their true intentions.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to cast its shadow.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
thom talks with professors Marchi Pally and Pamela Cooper-White about the rise of “Christian” nationalism.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and his crew talk with Vanderbilt professor Jefferson Cowie about how the legacy of George Wallace lives on today.
The Offense 0
At the Nashville Tennessean, LeBron Hill argues that Tennessee Republicans decided to expel two young black progressives from the Tennessee House because they didn’t know their place.
Afterthought:
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, growing up under Jim Crow and attending segregated schools, there was a term for this:
They were “being uppity.”
Over a century and a half after the Civil War, the Secesh are still with us, and they are rising again after all these years.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As I’ve mentioned before, Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
It is now the party of George Wallace and Bull Connor.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
If the truth hurts, ban the truth.
Naming Frights 0
Michael Paul Williams explores the history of Fort Pickett and of one of the families whose land was–er–repurposed for its construction.
It is not a pretty story (indeed, I suspect that it could not be told in Florida and other states which are committed to CRT, that is, to consciously rejecting truth), but it is one which bears telling.
Denial Is Not Just a River in Egypt 0
It’s also on the curriculum in a nearby county’s public schools.
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Other new principles outlined in the policy include that “parents or guardians have the sole responsibility for guiding their children’s views on controversial topics” and that “no one is inherently a victim or oppressed due to their race (consciously or unconsciously), skin color, gender, religion, national origin, sex, medical condition, age, martial status, sexual orientation, gender identity, military status, or disability.”
Aside:
Oh, yeah, by the way, it’s this county.
The White-Washing 0
Why am I not surprised?
. . . which is, natch, exactly what the New Secesh want: to pretend–and to teach the children–that the past never happened.
Full story at the link.
The Way-Back Machinationist 0
Anthony Dixon argues that
DeSantis has chosen education as a tool to set this country back 100 years.
His reasoning is spot on (follow the link for details), but methinks his math is off.
A more accurate figure is 164 years.
Precisely 164 years.