The Secesh category archive
“We Want Everybody’s Money Back!” 0
A century and a half later, the “peculiar institution” gives rise to some peculiar pretzel logic.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
As read and listen to and hear pious words honoring Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., on this day dedicated to his memory, I find myself remembering that many powerful figures are working diligently to undo everything that he worked for and toward; and that, empowered by the permission granted them by Donald Trump, they are more brazen about it than they have dared be for decades.
America’s original sin of chattel slaver continues to haunt.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Idaho State Journal, Michael Corrigan remembers Donald Trump’s (and yes, it was his, as he instigated it) January 6th insurrection.
The image that haunts me is the insurgent walking around the Capitol carrying a Confederate flag.
Follow the link for more memories.
Aside:
Many years ago, in the early years of my career at Amtrak, I lived in an apartment building named Fort Ward Towers (I think it since went condo) in Alexandria, Va., and, I must say, I had a fun three years there. Right across the street was Fort Ward Park, which preserved a bit of Fort Ward, one the 27 I think it was Civil War forts that ringed Washington during that conflict. It was quiet, pleasurable place, and my roommates and I would visit it from time to time.
Fort Ward is a museum piece.
But the South is still rising again and the war is not over.
All the History that Fits 0
The whole story of the Southern “Lost Cause” was a myth (and, I would argue, Gone with the Wind, both the book and the movie, was one of the most successful pieces of political propaganda in history, but that’s another story).
And the New Secesh are still making stuff up.
The Trumpification of the Republican Party 0
At the Sacramento Bee, Josh Gohlke runs the numbers.
Lyndon Johnson, for all that he was wrong about Viet Nam, was right about this.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The hate is just too precious to them for them to let go.
The Silent Satisfaction of Base Desires 0
Thom decodes de code.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
AL.com’s Cameron Smith explores the lie that will not die, the myth of the noble “lost cause.” Here’s a bit; follow the link for the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Jean Guerrero rips the hood off those who claim to be “colorblind” as they campaign against affirmative action. Here’s a tiny bit from the article (emphasis added):
(snip)
But those same activists who’ve stoked the flames of antagonism toward affirmative action have close ties to the architects of this country’s metastasizing white nationalist movement. These links reveal the activists’ ultimate agenda, which has nothing to do with ending racism.
Follow the link for the evidence.
Courting Disaster 2
Sam and his crew discuss the latest antics of the Supremacist Supreme Court and their inimical implications.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Helen Ubinas is less than sanguine. She argues that
Follow the link for her reasoning.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At my local rag, Margaret Edds discusses Virginia Governor Trumpkin’s apparent reluctance to allow schools to teach history that actually happened. Here’s a tiny bit of her article:
Such developments must not signal a retreat from a long-overdue, more truthful telling of Virginia history.
Afterthought:
She says “they must not,” but I got a dollar to a doughnut that they do, at least as long as the party of the New Secesh holds power.
If at First You Don’t Secede, Try, Try Again 0
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Aside:
I agree with Farron that these persons are, indeed, bonkers.
They are also dangerous.
Where is HUAC when we need them? Because it doesn’t get much more unAmerican than this.
He Wore the Grey 0
Warning: Short promo at the end.
I had ancestors who wore the grey.
They were wrong then, and those who would emulate them are wrong now.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch opines that Pennsylvania’s Republican gubernatorial candidate seems to one of those risers again.
Closing Books, Closing Minds 0
At the Roanoke Times, Arnold Schuetz, who grew up and attended school in Germany shortly after the end of World War II, sees echoes of his own experience in current attempts to–you will pardon the expression–whitewash America’s history of chattel slavery and racial discrimination.
No excerpt or summary will do his article justice. Just read it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, Roy S. Johnson explains the difference between an error and a mistake.