The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Self-Talk Dept. 0
In the midst of a longer article about Saturday’s KKK demonstration in Charlottesville, Va., Tony Norman points out, almost in passing, how the majority of racists and bigots lie to themselves. Only a minority vocally and publicly embrace their racism:
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The Guardian covers Saturday’s KKK rally in Charlottesville. Here’s a snippet:
While not part of the group, he said he would be open to the Klan’s perspective they if spoke mainly in support of the Confederacy and expressed views “partial to the south”.
Read the chilling rest.
As Faulkner said, “The past is always with us. In fact, it’s not even past.”
Flaggers 0
In Raleigh’s The News and Oberver, Paul Isom cuts through the crap about the meaning of the Stars and Bars. Here’s a nugget:
The use of the flag as a symbol of civil rights opposition – and worse – only grew from there. “The Confederate flag … means one thing to the Klansman: Here is a friend of ‘the cause,’” reported John Herbers in a 1965 New York Times story on a resurgence of the Ku Klux Klan.
One more time, when you hear someone wax nostalgic about “The Lost Cause,” ask him or her what exactly was the cause that was lost.
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In a long and thoughtful post, F. T. Rea considers recent decisions in New Orleans, Baltimore, and Austin to remove certain monuments to the Secesh, as well as the Virginia legislature’s efforts to prevent such action in Virginia. (Rea hails from Richmond, where Monument Avenue is the site of many memorials to those who fought to preserve and propagate chattel slavery.)
If you are not sure why there’s so much fuss about statuary, his article is well worth your while..Here’s an excerpt (emphasis added):
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Most of the monuments honoring the Confederacy that stand today in at least 20 states were put in place during the late-1800s/early-1900s. It was an era in which Lost Cause misinformation was being promulgated by stubborn sympathizers of the Confederacy. Plainly, they sought to paint over the haunting politics of the Civil War. Which was a propaganda campaign, if there ever was one.
Fast-forward to 2016: Whether it’s in Richmond or New Orleans, propaganda cast in bronze is still propaganda.
One more time: When you hear someone glorify the “Lost Cause,” ask him or her (though it’s almost always a him) to explain precisely what exactly was the cause that was lost.
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Click to hear the New Secesh celebrate their glorious Southern heritage.
(2017-05-22 23:15 Link updated to a more thorough description of the conduct of the New Secesh.)
From Russia, with Love 0
Solomon Jones tries to figure out the Alt-Right’s Neo-Nazis’ White Nationalists’ KKK’s Secesh’s sudden love for Russia.* A snippet:
Given that white nationalists in America claim to be focused on saving America for white people, I don’t get their sudden Russia fixation. But I guess that’s the effect of having a president who benefited from Russian hacking, fired the man who was investigating possible Russian collusion with his campaign, and topped it all off by allegedly revealing classified information to Russian diplomats.
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*Changing the label doesn’t change the contents.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I suspect that Robert E. Lee, who knew when a cause was lost, would resent being a rallying point for the New Secesh.
The Tiki torch ceremony, which Charlottesville’s Democratic mayor, Mike Signer, likened to KKK tactics “designed to instill fear” in minorities, was staged by a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the Charlottesville City Council recently voted to remove. More than a hundred demonstrators chanted “You will not replace us,” “Blood and soil” and “Russia is our friend.”
Via Raw Story, which reports that there are racist twits on twitter.
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Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that racism elected Trump (of course, if you have been paying attention, you knew that already). A snippet:
In words of one syllable: I told you so.
There was a neon line leading straight from the lavish abuse heaped on Barack Obama to Trump, who asks a black reporter to set up a meeting for him with the Congressional Black Caucus (“Are they friends of yours?”) and tries to hang a “No Muslims” sign on the Statue of Liberty. Yet many white journalists, pundits, authors and academics simply could not see it.
Amen.
Twits on Twitter, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
“War of Northern Aggression” twits.
Light Bloggery (Updated) 0
Posting will be spotty today.
I have some site maintenance to do (I need to deploy SSL* so Firefox and Vivaldi stop nagging me that this site is insecure, even though there’s nothing here that requires security other than my own password, as this is a hobby, not a business and I do not have anyone’s confidential information**), and I have some errands to run, but mostly I need a break.
Reality is just too damned depressing, even though there was a bit of good news from France last night.
Now, if only I could live in a fantasy world where down is up and up is down and lies are truth, as Republicans do . . . .
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*How successful I’ll be is still an open issue.
**The notion that all websites should be SSL, even when there is no legitimate reason for encryption, is a curse and a pox. If I’m visiting, say, IMDB to see who the members of the cast of a movie or television show are and have no intention of logging on (I don’t even have an IMDB logon)–when all I’m doing is looking at a website and not passing any information to it other than what is in my user agent string, when all I am doing is looking at public information–there is no legitimate reason for requiring encryption.
Unnecessary security is not security.
It’s security theatre.
Addendum:
It was too pretty a day to spend it mucking about with computers. I went for a bike ride, then drove my little yellow truck to the grocery store (chicken piccata tonight, yums), then sat on the deck doing a crossword puzzle (this is one household where there is ever a crossword).
Mucking has been postponed until tomorrow and, after I poked about tonight regarding some of the issues I need to resolve, I must say that a call to my hosting provider’s most excellent tech support is a possibility. Fortunately, my phone has a speaker that I can enable so I can do real stuff as I wait for tech support to come live . . . .
And I needed the break from following the Trumpling of the American Dream. It was refreshing to ignore for a short while that the Secesh are now in charge.
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Daniel Ruth marvels at the antics of a Florida Republican who is determined to block a memorial to persons held in chattel bondage. A snippet:
Instead Baxley, R-“I Love the Smell of Juleps in the Morning,” said he would prefer a memorial that celebrates people in a more uplifting manner. And since he chairs the Government Oversight and Accountability Committee, where the slavery memorial bill landed, the measure wasn’t even scheduled for a hearing.
. . . because if you don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen, right?
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This should not surprise you.
This is the United States of America. Everything eventually wends its way back to race.
Work Stoppage 0
Josh Marshall marvels at Trump’s threats to Trumple the govenment. A snippet:
This looks for all the world that the Republican Party is ready to secede, if not de jure, then certainly de facto.
More at the link.