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Historian Charles B. Dew responds to those who would preserve, even celebrate, Confederate monuments because they are “part of history” by reminding them of just what part of history they would cherish. Here’s a bit:

(CSA–ed.) Vice President Stephens made the secessionist case in even starker terms in a speech delivered in Atlanta on March 13, 1861. The framers of the Confederate Constitution had “solemnly discarded the pestilent heresy of fancy politicians, that all men, of all races, were equal,” he openly acknowledged, “and we had made African inequality and subordination, and the equality of white men, the chief cornerstone of the Southern Republic.”

Follow the link for more from the historical record.

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Field tries to understand Nikki Haley’s attempt white-wash history in ignoring the uncomfortable fact of America’s Original Sin.

Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis in the original); follow the link for the entire post.

Nikki went all pretzel with her attempt to answer the question because she did not want to offend republican voters. Particularly those MAGA loyalist (sic) who she is still trying to court. In the world of half of republican voters, and most MAGA loyalists, the Civil War was more about good Americans just wanting to hold on to their property without the government telling them what to do, than it was about enslaving and cruelly treating fellow human beings. This part of American history has been completely whitewashed by the American right, and Nikki Haley knows this. So rather than show some courage and speak the truth about the real reason for the Civil War (or as they call it in the South: ‘The War of Northern Aggression’) Nikki chose to dodge and obfuscate.

(Broken link fixed.)

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I linked earlier to PoliticalProf’s post regarding Nikki Halley’s white-washing the reason for the American Civil War.

Halley has since conceded that, yeah, maybe slavery did have a little bit to do with it.

Over at No More Mister Nice Blog, Steve M argues that said concession is not likely to help Halley with the Republican Party’s secessionist base. A snippet:

Haley has tried to regain her footing by blaming the question on a “Democratic plant,” but you can’t combine that with an admission that the hated libs were right and expect to remain viable in a GOP contest. If she felt the need to acknowledge slavery as the cause of the war, she should have said that the enslavers were members of the “Democrat Party” and that she belongs to “the party of Lincoln.”

But Haley can’t do any of that, because her brand is “reasonable-seeming Republican.” She’s polling best in New Hampshire, where members of any party (or no party) can vote in the Republican primary, and where the Republicans are, on average, more moderate than they are in most of the country. Angry wingnuttery might alienate these voters, so she’s ruled it out.

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Farron comments on the irrationality of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s most recent call for secession. (Of course, he’s wasting his breath; irrational persons can’t deal with rationality.)

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Charles B. Dew reminds us that, despite the words in the song, today’s planter class wants old times there to be forgotten. (Methinks that may be why they want to ban the teaching of factual history.)

And he offers evidence of why they want those times forgotten.

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Tales People Tell Themselves 0

Misty water-colored memories of the way we weren’t.

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Michael in Norfolk decodes de code:

Republican bloviating about “freedom” translates in practice to mean restrictions on the rights of disfavored groups within society, including women, and the empowerment of a minority of extremists to inflict their beliefs on all.

More at the link.

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When the truth hurts, ignore the truth and complain about the hurt.

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Daniel O. Jamison says that dis coarse discourse is precedented. Here’s how he opens his article:

A rebellion looms. Too many Americans have the attitude that if they cannot accomplish their aims lawfully and peaceably, they will resort to violence.

This attitude apparently traces to Reconstruction, when the organizers of the defunct Confederacy determined to regain the political power of their states, using lawful and peaceful means if they worked, but unlawful and violent means if necessary. With savage violence, they “redeemed” the South, ousting integrated state governments and denying equal rights to Blacks.

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UNC lap professor Gene Nichol questionss Republicans’ efforts to gut out the (black) vote in North Carolina. Here’s one of his questions:

When North Carolina Republicans again deploy some of the most aggressively distorted redistricting practices in American history to further a radically anti-egalitarian legislative agenda — to entrench that agenda permanently into the social and political life of North Carolina — can it actually be that the 14th and 15th Amendments are untroubled?

More questions at the link.

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Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0

Know them by the company they keep.

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Voting Is Not a Right. It Is a Duty. 0

I learned that from my Daddy by example.

He never missed an election, nor have I.

Indeed, I have memories of his making sure his poll tax was paid, back when I was a young ‘un growing up under Jim Crow, when segregation was de jure, and not, as it is today, primarily de facto. (No, it hasn’t gone away. If you think it has, you are kidding yourself. It may not be as obvious, but it still is. Just ask Florida Man.)

We voted Monday at a local early voting site. It was a swift and painless process which took less then 10 minutes from parking the car to pulling out of the parking lot.

And I urge you vote too, if not early, certainly on election day.

Taking a few minutes–or even a few hours–to vote is a small price to pay for preserving democracy.

Don’t exercise your right. Do your duty.

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Thom shares the backstory of why the United States is the only major industrialized country that does offer universal health care.

America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to exact its toll.

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Thom points out that Republicans’ efforts to gut out the vote are rooted in racism.

I’m a Southern Boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and went to segregated schools.

I was there when the first few black students (one the first year, eleven the next year) integrated my formally all-white high school. I was there when I found out that they were people just like me. I was there when one of my white (natch) teachers was horrified that my local paper had switched my name with that of one of my black classmates in a picture of the track team. (As an aside, I didn’t care a bit because he was a good guy. Plus I wasn’t very good at track, though track was good for me, but I was a great scorekeeper.)

I know racism when I see it.

Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle.

Today’s Republican Party is the party or racism.

It has no ideas.

Racism is all it’s got.

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Sam and his crew dissect the falsehoods and delusions in Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld’s call for Civil War v. 2.0.

In a similar vein, Will Bunch highlights Donald Trump’s continuing calls for violence. Just go read it.

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At AL.com, Roy Johnson makes a compelling case that Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville prefers to judge persons, not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin.

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At the Des Moines Register, Gerald Ott reacts to Republican attempts to pretend that America’s history wasn’t.

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Tommy Tuberville lets his Stars and Bars fly.

I’m a Southern boy.

I grew up under Jim Crow and went to segregated schools.

I know racism when I see it.

This is racism.

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“When the Truth Hurts, Hurt the Truth” 0

Michael Paul Williams points out that those who complain most vociferously about “indoctrination” in schools are, in truth, the indoctrinators.

Follow the link for his reasoning.

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A Tune for the Times 0

Mangy comments at the Youtube page:

So often, it seems that those who spout the slogan “America, Love it or leave it” are the sort that hate an awful lot of their fellow citizens and hate a good portion of The Constitution and even the basic tenets of democracy. Funny it never occurs to them that perhaps THEY should be the ones leaving, since the principles upon which our nation was founded seem to really rub them the wrong way. Marjorie Traitor Greene is a prime example of this type. She has said that states need to think about seceding. I imagine this is in an effort to make America more like Marjorie and her fellow unhinged conspiracy-loving friends, and less like the clear-headed, logical, well-informed citizenry Thomas Jefferson dreamt of. Good luck with that Marge. Mangy Fetlocks thought it was time someone told her that maybe SHE is the one who needs to leave, not the rest of us.

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