The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I remember the days of water fountains labelled “white” and “colored,” bathrooms ditto, even separate schools.
And there those who would bring those days back.
What’s in a Name? 0
Well, quite a bit, actually.
Such as casting a patina of legitimacy over treason, just to pick a for instance.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Rebecca Watson explores how arithmetic fell afoul of Florida’s ban on critical race theory historical facts. It’s an even uglier and more twisted story than you might expect.
Transcript here.
Afterthought:
When the Republican Party implemented its “southern strategy” in Richard Nixon’s second presidential campaign, it expected to use racism and bigotry as a tool to gain and retain power.
Now, five decades later, the Republican Party has become the tool and racism and bigotry its wielders.
Hate and Mongers of Hate 0
Seth skewers points out the internal contradictions in the right-wing’s racist “great replacement theory” myth lie.
We are a society of stupid.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Maureen Downey explores the effects of the state of Georgia’s war on historical fact. Here’s a bit:
It’s not a coincidence that the misinformation campaign that Georgia schools taught critical race theory followed the election of Georgia’s first Black and Jewish American senators, and as Confederate monuments fell across the country.
What’s the Opposite of Woke? Asleep 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Chris Huston skewers the duplicity and under-lying bigotry of Florida’s “anti-woke” law. Here’s a bit;
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It never ends . . . .
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Authorities allege in an affidavit that Pilon went to stores in Saginaw leaving nooses attached to a note that read: “An accessory to be worn with your ‘BLM’ t-shirt. Happy protesting!” The messages were found in several places, including a Goodwill parking lot, inside a beverage cooler at a 7-Eleven and in a Walmart parking lot.
He probably thought he was being witty.
He was half-right.
If the Truth Hurts . . . 0
. . . then don’t teach the truth.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., counsels us to stop looking away, looking away, looking away from the party of Dixieland.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and they never give a straight answer to a simple question: States’ rights to do just what, exactly?
A Question of Timing 0
Aside:
I think making daylight savings time permanent is a profoundly stupid idea. It’s been tried–and failed–before. But we seem to have become a society incapable of learning from–indeed, even hostile to–history.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles Blow summarizes Republicans’ seven step plan to salvage segregation.
Still Rising Again after All These Years,
Mean for the Sake of Mean Dept.
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At SFGate, Drew Magary argues forcefully that certain states (Texas, Florida, etc.) are trying to secede without actually seceding. He suggests that, in the long run, it won’t go well for them, but, in the short run, we can expect much gratuitous suffering for those who don’t fit their image of “real Americans.” A nugget:
Racism Supreme 0
Thom discusses today’s Republican Party’s embrace of racism as it relates to the recent vacancy on the Supreme Court.
Still Rising Again . . . . 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Andrew Straus suggests that the United States could learn from how Germany deals with the legacy of Nazism and the Holocaust.
In the course of the discussion, he gets to the nub of the current fuss in the United States over critical race theory and “divisive concepts” (emphasis added):
I commend the entire piece to your attention.