The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Florida Republicans float a new strategy for reviving the poll tax.
Theft of Labor: The True Southern Tradition 0
My local rag has a long article on sharecropping, including first-hand narratives from persons who grew up in sharecropping families.
Forget the Gone with the Wind propaganda.
Follow the link and learn just how gracious Southern living really was.
“Jackie Robinson Day” 0
Last night, I tuned into ESPN to watch the Phillies play the bad guys of the day New York Mets.
I did not know that Major League Baseball was celebrating “Jackie Robinson Day.”
Every player wore Jackie Robinson’s number, 42 (a number that is otherwise retired from Major League Baseball). In a refreshing change from the normal drivel of the play-by-play and commentary, the telecast included visits to the play booth by Jamie Foxx, MLB Commissioner Rob Manfred, and Mo Ne Davis, as well as a filmed tribute to her father by Sharon Robinson. In addition, the commentators discussed the contributions of Jackie Robinson to baseball, civil rights, and American society, as well as larger issues regarding the place of African-Americans in baseball and in society.
As I listened to these tributes to one of the bravest men to don a baseball uniform, I could not stem a rising tide of dismay at the overt racism of the current federal administration.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Chartering a Course for Disaster Dept. 0
North Carolina allows a failing seg academy to become a charter school.
The Secesh Never Stopped Rising Again 0
Tennessean David Cook reacts to the continuing revelations of white politicians who wore blackface and in other ways memorialized the Secesh when they were young. He considers his own experiences as a white guy growing up in the South. Here’s a bit; I commend the article to your attention:
Nor am I surprised by Virginia Gov. Ralph Northam’s yearbook photo.
My hunch is that many African-Americans aren’t surprised, either.
Racism isn’t a surprise.
It’s often seen as the norm, the expectation.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, John Archibald skewers the Alabama Attorney-General Marshall’s claim that “he would never use the law as a means to politcal ends.” A state court recently ruled that a hastily-passed Alabana law to protect Confederate monuments was unconstitutional; Archibald argues that Marshall’s decision to appeal that court’s ruling is as political as it gets. A snippet:
Marshall will do everything in his power to make sure places like Birmingham and people like the descendants of slaves have no say in whether the monuments to the Confederate Lost Cause stand on their land and in their faces like a giant middle finger.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Shaun Mullen meditates on the rise of the New Secesh.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Mike comments on Cindy Hyde-Smith’s Confederate cosplay (warning: language).
Ahistorical Monuments 0
Excerpt:
The argument is always made that removing these monuments is erasing history. The monuments themselves were put up to erase history.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom traces the Republican Party’s path to becoming the party of the New Secesh.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Will Bunch is dismayed at how some white Southerners keep hanging on to the past.