The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Santayana Redux Dept. 0
George Santayana once said, “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.”
I herewith propose the Hawley corollary:
Those who deny history desire to repeal it.
Cancel Culture, Unreconstructed Style 0
As Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out (see below), until white America is willing to confront its past, it will continue to deny its present.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron points out how thoroughly Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle and consumed the Republican Party.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Heaven forbid that students should ever be taught the truth about ye olde south.
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One of Donald Trump’s most poisonous legacies was to give, by his example, racists permission to be racist in public in a manner not seen since the days of George Wallace and of Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy.” Thom and Joe Madison discuss how to deal with this.
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Vanessa Williamson, Sam’s guest, historian Vannessa Williamson, discusses the ways in which white persons rhetoric and tactics in rolling back Reconstruction continues to affect our politics today.
It’s a relatively long segment, but well worth a listen. As you listen to Williamson talk about events a century and a half ago, you will find disquieting parallels with what passes for discourse today.
Lost in a Lost Cause 0
Elizabeth City, N. C., is trying to give away its Confederate monument, but it seems that no one wants it.
“The Red Hats Are Coming! The Red Hats Are Coming!” 0
Stephen’s monologue from Wednesday evening was a tour de force.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
If you want to follow news of the “breaching” (why would they call it that instead of what it is–an attack and occupation?) of the Capitol, I recommend the WTOP radio stream. You’ll get more news and fewer no pictures.
The original post scheduled for this update is below the fold. Methinks it quite relevant to today’s events.
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E. J. Montini relates news of the unreconstructed, in Arizona no less.
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WVEC, my local ABC-affiliated television station, has an excellent article about the raising of Confederate monuments across the South during the late 1800s and early 1900s. The writer does an excellent job of placing those memorials to treason in context; if you don’t understand what the statues and the movement to remove them (is that a removement?) is about, I urge you to give it a read
It includes this prophetic quotation from John Mitchell, who edited a black newspaper in Richmond, Va., during that time period:
