The Secesh category archive
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Field looks at the actions of the Trump maladministration and decodes de code. Here’s a tiny bit from his article:
Most of us know what the agenda is: To make America white again.
Still Rising Again after All These Years . . . 0
. . . and still trying to white-wash (you will pardon the expression) America’s original sin of chattel slavery.
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At The Charlotte Observer, Justin Perry notes that
Then Perry masterfully dissects the duplicitous thinking behind Vance’s remark.
His piece is worth the two or three minutes it will take to read.
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At the Las Vegas Sun, Eric Foster decodes de code.
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Via The Sacramento Bee, LZ Granderson reminds us that the Founders lied to themselves as well as others. He points out that
He goes on to remind us that that lie persists–indeed, is being perpetuated–today. He argues persuasively that the Trump maladministration’s attempt to eradicate DEI is yet another attempt to (you will pardon the expression) whitewash America’s history.
Follow the link for more examples of the whitewashing.
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Sam and the crew point out that the Trump maladministration’s racism is in plain sight.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
A century and a half ago, men dressed up in masks to terrorize, capture, torture, and sometimes kill folks whose skin was darker than theirs.
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*Mark Twain.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Washington Monthly, Paul Finkelman looks at Donald Trump’s proposed immigration “policy” changes and hears a rhyme from the past. Here’s a tiny bit (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
And the Trump maladministration moves to close that door once more.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to rationalize it continue to take their toll.
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*Mark Twain.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Sacramento Bee, Stephen Mihm hears a rhyme from another time when America closed the golden door to huddled masses yearning to breathe free because they just weren’t white enough.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The evidence continues to mount that Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” has come full circle and that today’s Republican Party is the party of the Secesh.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- Thom hears a rhyme
From another time
When men in hoods
Roamed the woods,
With crosses ablaze
Through nights and days.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
Anita Chabria conjugates the latest con from Donald Trump’s Ministry of Truth.
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The Trump maladmnistration wants them darkies to know their place.
Stray Thought 0
Today’s Republican Party does not want to govern.
It wants to dictate.
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At the Washington Monthly, Richard D. Kahlenberg peers behind the sheets of a recent action of the Trump maladministration and concludes that
Trump’s new enemy appears to be racial diversity itself . . . .
Follow the link to find out why he reached that conclusion.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The Secesh are rising again after all these years, but doing so oh so politely.
Details at the link.