The Secesh category archive
How Stuff Works: The “Heritage” Con 0
Steven Conn explains how it works. A snippet:
Heritage, by contrast, is a mythologized version of the past, stripped of all the unpleasant parts. Heritage remains largely impervious to historical evidence and relies instead on a past-as-we-wish-it-were version of events. It trades in emotions and personal connections, putting itself beyond debate or reproach. History is often not lovable, but everyone loves his or her heritage.
Do please follow the link and read the complete essay.
Symbol of Southern Heritage 0
In The Roanoke Times, Virginia Tech professon Wornie Reed deconstructs the symbolism. (Hint: It ain’t rum punch on the veranda, folks.)
Here’s a bit (emphasis added).
The “Southern Heritage” it celebrates is the heritage of chattel slavery. All the rest is window treatments.
The Confederate Party . . . 0
. . . struggles to retain its flag.
Nixon’s odious southern strategy has finished devouring the “Party of Lincoln.”
Heritage 0
Meanwhile, John Martin considers his own “Southern heritage” and the big lie that is Gone with the Wind, a lie that lives with us still. Here’s a bit:
This is as deep and elemental as my Southern heritage gets, a direct link to our nation’s Original Sin.
Image via Job’s Anger.
The New Nihilists 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of The Las Vegas Sun, has had enough (emphasis added).
This time there are people upset about Obamacare and marriage. That’s not going to change. There will always be people upset when the Supreme Court acts. That is the nature of court rulings.
What should upset us more, though, are political leaders under the guise of conservatism crying out for the impeachment of justices and the ignoring of lawful court orders.
There is nothing conservative about trying to lead people — emotionally and otherwise distraught people, depending upon the issue — toward a path of ignoring our Constitution and our rule of law. That is the way of anarchists, not conservatives.
More fed-upedness at the link.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The things that wingnuts and Christianists are saying about the gay marriage ruling remind me of what segregationists said after Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka et al back in the olden days, when I was young ‘un growing up under Jim Crow.
The tune is the same. Only the lyrics have changed, and they but slightly; the hate remains intact.
The Confederate Party 0
The Booman looks at data from the last two Presidential elections and draws a conclusion.
Nixon’s odious southern strategy has reached fruition.
Follow the link for the Booman’s much-more nuanced analysis and predictions.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
James Bond was “licensed to kill” in a fictional world that never existed.
Allow me to introduce you to those who would be “licensed to hate” in the real world that we all must share.
Afterthought:
My family has lived in Virginia since 1613; it has shared and participated in Virginia’s sins and in its virtues.
These persons make me ashamed to be a Virginian, for they would perpetuate Virginia’s greatest sin.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and Pap cut through the Rebel crap.