The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam speaks with Suzanne Nossel about Florida Man’s thought police.
Afterthought:
Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party. Florida Man’s antics are rooted in America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the ideology of racism that was fabricated to justify it.
If you can’t see that, you just aren’t looking.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Missouri’s attempt at Nullification v. 2.0 fails in Federal Court, as anyone who understands the concept of a federal republic could have predicted.
Nullification was all the rage in the slave states the 1850s.
To cut through the multi-syllabic verbiage, nullification was an attempt to secede without actually seceding, and the New Secesh have decided to give it another whirl.
Afterthought:
As Mark Twain said, “History does not repeat itself, but it often rhymes.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Honest to Betsy, you can’t make this stuff up.
The Seditionist Caucus 0
Thom argues that racism is and has long been a misdirection play.
And methinks he argues his point well.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
At the Kansas City Star, Dion Lefler sees echoes–well, heck, more than echoes–of Joe McCarthy’s Red Scare in the tactics Republicans are deploying to stoke fears the American students might (gasp!) be taught America’s history. Here’s how he starts his article:
The best answer to that question is another question: Why are we allowing it in Kansas, in 2023?
Follow the link for his reasoning.
Debunking de Bunk 0
The College Board has responded to Florida Man’s efforts to white wash–I use that term advisedly–American history as taught in Florida schools. Here’s a bit of their response:
Follow the link for the complete letter, in which they debunk in a detailed in a point-by-point manner Florida Man’s bunk.
The Great Erasure 0
Congressperson Alma Adams sees precedent for current attempt by the New Secesh to pretend that slavery wasn’t and racism isn’t.
If You Don’t Talk about It, It Didn’t Happen 0
Shevrin Jones decodes Florida Man’s code. A bit of the translation (emphasis added):
I commend the entire article to your attention.
Same Message, Prettier Packaging 0
It occurs to me that Florida governor DiSantis is sort of like George Wallace after a finishing school do-over.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The writer of a letter to the editor of the Las Vegas Sun asks (and answers), “What’s in a name?”
(Methinks his answer is spot on, and my ancestors wore the grey.)
American History, Republican Style 0
If you don’t teach it, it never happened.