The Secesh category archive
The Stetson, Updated 0
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Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
George Smith chronicles the latest updates from the Secesh.
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Leonard Pitts, Jr., considers the resilience of the Secesh. A snippet–read the rest.
Both times, the act was moral and necessary. But who can deny, or be surprised, that in forcing the South to do the right thing, the rest of the country fostered an abiding resentment, an enduring “apartness,” made the South a region defined by resistance. Name the issue — immigration, race, abortion, education, criminal justice — and law and custom in Dixie have long stood stubbornly apart from the rest of the country.
Still Rising Again after All the Years 0
Pap interviews Chauncey Devega and the racist debt peonage system in Ferguson, Mo. (and other places).
Via We Are Respectable Negroes.
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Reg Henry finds the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ suit to compel Texas to allow them to display the flag of the secesh on their Texas license plates to be less than salutary.
Do follow the link and read the rest.
The 47 Percent: Not Who You Think They Are 0
The Las Vegas Sun’s Brian Greenspun thinks he has found them:
I have found the 47 percenters.
They call themselves United States senators. And they are doing their best to destroy what makes this country great.
(snip)
We all know there is precious little Congress has been able to agree on in the past few years. Notwithstanding the fact that Americans do not want to shut down the government, do want to extend and maintain Social Security and also want to provide medical insurance for all Americans, it is clear there is a significant minority of people in the Congress who wish otherwise. Unfortunately, it is the American people who suffer as a result of this childish behavior.
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The South may have lost the war, but it is still fighting to win the peace.
Plus Ca Change, Redux 0
Nixon’s odious Southern Strategy rides again!
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Leonard Pitts, Jr., places Alabama Supreme Court Judge Roy Moore’s recent invocation of nullification in the face of gay marriage into context. A nugget (please read the rest):
That’s what necessitated the Voting Rights Act of 1965 and the Freedom Rides of 1961. It’s why federal troops had to march into Little Rock in 1957. For that matter, it’s why they had to march into Richmond in 1865. The demagogues always use the same justification, always say that in denying it the right to discriminate as it sees fit, the federal government steps on the South’s “traditions.”
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Of course, “tradition” is just a smokescreen word, like “values,” “heritage,” “faith” and all the other pretty terminology opponents of marriage equality use to justify their increasingly untenable position. . . . It is, and ever has been, only about a single ugly word: bigotry. . . .
One more time, when you hear someone invoke “states’ rights,” ask, “States’ rights to do just what, precisely.”
Dollars to doughnuts you don’t get a precise answer.
“Massive Resistance” 0
In an article about Longwood University, which was Longwood State Teachers College when my aunt attended it during the roaring 20s (I wonder if she roared? Probably, knowing her) my local rag looks back. A snippet:
Then, from 1959 to 1964, Prince Edward County public schools were shut down as local officials resisted desegregation orders.
Read the rest.
This is what the New Secesh look back on with longing.
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What better time to demonstrate your allegiance to the Secesh than Martin Luther King’s birthday?
In Case You Have Forgotten Choose Not To Remember . . .
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. . . read this.
Yes. That is what it was like, and that is what some persons consider the “Good Old Days.”
Via PoliticalProf.