The Secesh category archive
“Statues to Traitors” 0
A wingnut calls Thom. The call does not go well.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Paul Krugman discusses how the legacy of slavery still taints the United States, using the Virginia gubernatorial race as a springboard. A snippet (emphasis added):
Aside:
As a Virginian who is subjected to Gillespie’s campaign commercials, I can attest that they are truly vile and duplicitous.
None Dare Call It Treason 0
Via Job’s Angerhttp://jobsanger.blogspot.com/2017/10/they-were-traitors.html.
Myth Makers 0
In my local rag, Roger Chesley looks at the text books used in Virginia schools around the beginning of the Twentieth Century and at how they promoted the lie of the “Lost Cause.”
Read it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., marvels at the kerfuffle over Jemele Hill’s tweets pointing out–nothing new here–that Donald Trump is a white supremacist. A snippet:
Really? Well, if Hill deserves firing for calling Trump a white supremacist, then what does he get for actually being one?
Follow the link for his answer to that question.
Statues of Limitations 0
One more time, when you hear persons speak nostalgically of “the Lost Cause,” consider what exactly was the cause that was lost.
Statue of Limitations, Reprise 0
Daniel Ruth addresses the current kerfuffle in Tampa about a local Confederate secessionist monument. A snippet:
Do please read the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
For what it’s worth, my mother was born and grew up in York County, South Carolina.
But she knew how to conduct herself in public.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Mike Pence and monumental stupidity:
From the “Party of Lincoln” to the “Party of Stinkin'” 0
As I’ve noted several times, today’s Republican Party is the creation and the legacy of Richard Nixon. Nixon’s “Southern Strategy,” his decision to woo bigots and racists during his second campaign drew them into the party and they have no commandeered it.
Leonard Pitts, Jr., sums it up; here’s a bit:
(snip)
Its machinations have delivered to the GOP the presidency and both houses of Congress. Yet seldom has a party controlled so much and looked so bad doing it. Republicans find themselves saddled with an incompetent president elected on an implicit promise to make America white again. Under him, they are able to accomplish exactly nothing. They cringe as he suggests moral equivalence between bigots and those who protest them. As if all that were not bad enough, a newly revived hate movement now arrives, looking to cash in its chits.