The Secesh category archive
A Tip o’ the (MAGA) Hat 0
Elie Mystal takes exception to the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that states cannot ban partisan clothing at polling places. As a side note, the item in question was a “Gadsden Flag” tee shirt; despite the Gadsden Flag’s roots in the Revolutionary War, it has become an ensign of the new Secesh.
A snippet (follow the link for the rest):
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. . . I’ve been to Mississippi and I know what black people have to go through in order to exercise their franchise.
Virginia offers Gadsden Flag license plates. I recall discussing them with someone once.
We agreed that they performed a service, in that that notified others that persons driving vehicles so adorned were likely–oh, never mind.
Twits on Twitter, Base Desires Dept. 0
In a thoughtful article that slices through the fog of point-counterpoint claims about Roseanne Barr’s racist tweet and the subsequent cancellation of her television show, Bret Stephen’s concludes
Follow the link to learn why he reached that conclusion.
Twits on Twitter, Meet Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The linguistic gymnastics of the Secesh to convince others and themselves that the United States Civil War was something other than what it was–an attempt to preserve an economy based on oppression, exploitation, and theft of labor–never cease to amaze.
Facebook Frolics Meets Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
USA Today staffers read every phony Russian Facebook ad. What they found should not surprise. Here’s their first paragraph:
Follow the link for why they said that.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Chief Counsel for the Senate Judiciary Committee declares that asking potential judicial nominees about Brown v. Board of Education is “playing politics.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Rael discusses the theatrical you will pardon the expression white-washing of the Old South.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom stops a caller who tries to make excuses for American chattel slavery, then the bondage of usury.
Tales of the Trumpling: Snapshots of Trickle-Down Trumpery 0
Speed Trumps in the parking lot.
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The video begins with Stover accusing DeKeyser of “calling me a n*gger for no reason.” DeKeyser responds by saying, “Yes, because I knew it would get a f*cking rise out of you, because you’re acting like one!”
In his Facebook post about the incident, Stover said that he believed DeKeyser was carrying a handgun in his pocket — and that he was trying to bait Stover into physically attacking him so he could then shoot him and get away with it thanks to Georgia’s “stand your ground laws.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Writing at Raw Story, Chauncey Devega explores the fealty of many white folks to the Stars and Bars and all it stands for. He minces no words.
A nugget:
Speaking as one who grew up under Jim Crow, whose ancestors “held” (as the saying went) slaves and wore the grey, and who did not figure out why the local health center had four bathrooms and two water fountains until much later than he should have, I urge you to read the whole thing.
Limitations of Statues 0
A letter-writer to the Raleigh News and Observer spots a false equivalence.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Solomon Jones finds it–let’s see–willfully blind that in the face of a lifetime of Donald Trump’s racist behavior some persons are only just now discovering Donald Trump’s racism. He suggests that those who do not speak out against the Trumpling are ipso facto complicit in it. A snippet:
In truth, Trump’s racism is profoundly American, because America is a racist country.
Racism built America’s wealth through brutal African enslavement. Racism supported the subjugation of black sharecroppers after the Civil War. Racism drove home the Jim Crow laws designed to create a permanent black underclass. Racism was enforced through state-sanctioned violence carried out by lynch mobs and police.
That is the true history of race in America, and in some ways, not much has changed. If we are ready to face that truth as a country united for justice, we can move forward. But if America continues to paint racism as a figment of black peoples’ fertile imaginations, our country will never change.
The Lies People Tell Themselves 0
Another Southern myth, busted.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Tony Norman suggests that refusal of “Judge” Roy Moore to concede defeat in the Alabama Senatorial race is a fitting analogy to the Southern myth of the “Lost Cause.” A snippet:
With the passage of time and enough lies, even allegations that he tried to initiate romances with children will be brushed off by sympathetic historians as scurrilous propaganda the same way the atrocities of the antebellum aristocracy are considered lies spread by liberal historians. They’ll say he took countless lie detector tests and passed.
One more time, when next you hear someone bemoan the “Lost Cause,” ask him or her to explain precisely just what was the cause that was lost.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles Finn eviscerates the rationalizations of the secesh and their sycophants in a searing screed.
Flagging Interests 0
In The Roanoke Times, retired professor George McDowell discusses the dispute over the display of the Confederate Battle Ensign and monuments to the supporters of slavery and secession and does so with reasoned words. A snippet: