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History, Haley (and MAGA) style

Image One:  Pilgrim attacking Indian.  Image Two:  Planter beating slave.  Image Three:  Member of lynch mob standing beneath hanged black man.  Image Four:  Cop setting police dog on balck man.  Last Image:  Red-hatted man holding American flag and saying,

Via Yellowdoggranny.

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Misty Water-Colored Republican Memories 0

Two GOP Elephants play a tune on the piano and sing,

Via Job’s Anger.

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And Now for a Musical Interlude 0

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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.

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Republican Thought Police 0

Title:  Swatting.  Image;  Man wearing

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The Republican effort to normalize sedition continues apace.

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Derefe Kimarley Chevannes sees a pattern repeating itself:

Any cursory reading of Black history in this country, from slavery to Jim Crow, reveals a clear historical pattern: Keep Black people away from writing their own histories by outlawing Black literacy witnessed in slavery, or explicitly impoverishing Black literacy, as observed in Jim Crow laws of “separate but equal.”

Yet, America seems intent on repeating its noxious history of Black oppression.

Follow the link for the evidence.

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Diane Roberts serves up the story of the Civil War, Southern style.

No excerpt or paraphrase will do her piece justice. Just go read it.

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Patrick Henry once said

The distinctions between Virginians, Pennsylvanians, New Yorkers, and New Englanders are no more. I am not a Virginian but an American.

It appears that the New Secesh beg to differ. It appears that they are choosing to secede again, only, this time, without bothering to put it in writing.

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David talks with a Capitol Police officer, one who voted for Trump in 2016, about the events of January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump tried to overthrow the goverment of the United States.

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Historian Charles B. Dew responds to those who would preserve, even celebrate, Confederate monuments because they are “part of history” by reminding them of just what part of history they would cherish. Here’s a bit:

(CSA–ed.) Vice President Stephens made the secessionist case in even starker terms in a speech delivered in Atlanta on March 13, 1861. The framers of the Confederate Constitution had “solemnly discarded the pestilent heresy of fancy politicians, that all men, of all races, were equal,” he openly acknowledged, “and we had made African inequality and subordination, and the equality of white men, the chief cornerstone of the Southern Republic.”

Follow the link for more from the historical record.

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Field tries to understand Nikki Haley’s attempt white-wash history in ignoring the uncomfortable fact of America’s Original Sin.

Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis in the original); follow the link for the entire post.

Nikki went all pretzel with her attempt to answer the question because she did not want to offend republican voters. Particularly those MAGA loyalist (sic) who she is still trying to court. In the world of half of republican voters, and most MAGA loyalists, the Civil War was more about good Americans just wanting to hold on to their property without the government telling them what to do, than it was about enslaving and cruelly treating fellow human beings. This part of American history has been completely whitewashed by the American right, and Nikki Haley knows this. So rather than show some courage and speak the truth about the real reason for the Civil War (or as they call it in the South: ‘The War of Northern Aggression’) Nikki chose to dodge and obfuscate.

(Broken link fixed.)

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I linked earlier to PoliticalProf’s post regarding Nikki Halley’s white-washing the reason for the American Civil War.

Halley has since conceded that, yeah, maybe slavery did have a little bit to do with it.

Over at No More Mister Nice Blog, Steve M argues that said concession is not likely to help Halley with the Republican Party’s secessionist base. A snippet:

Haley has tried to regain her footing by blaming the question on a “Democratic plant,” but you can’t combine that with an admission that the hated libs were right and expect to remain viable in a GOP contest. If she felt the need to acknowledge slavery as the cause of the war, she should have said that the enslavers were members of the “Democrat Party” and that she belongs to “the party of Lincoln.”

But Haley can’t do any of that, because her brand is “reasonable-seeming Republican.” She’s polling best in New Hampshire, where members of any party (or no party) can vote in the Republican primary, and where the Republicans are, on average, more moderate than they are in most of the country. Angry wingnuttery might alienate these voters, so she’s ruled it out.

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Farron comments on the irrationality of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s most recent call for secession. (Of course, he’s wasting his breath; irrational persons can’t deal with rationality.)

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Charles B. Dew reminds us that, despite the words in the song, today’s planter class wants old times there to be forgotten. (Methinks that may be why they want to ban the teaching of factual history.)

And he offers evidence of why they want those times forgotten.

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Tales People Tell Themselves 0

Misty water-colored memories of the way we weren’t.

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Michael in Norfolk decodes de code:

Republican bloviating about “freedom” translates in practice to mean restrictions on the rights of disfavored groups within society, including women, and the empowerment of a minority of extremists to inflict their beliefs on all.

More at the link.

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When the truth hurts, ignore the truth and complain about the hurt.

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Daniel O. Jamison says that dis coarse discourse is precedented. Here’s how he opens his article:

A rebellion looms. Too many Americans have the attitude that if they cannot accomplish their aims lawfully and peaceably, they will resort to violence.

This attitude apparently traces to Reconstruction, when the organizers of the defunct Confederacy determined to regain the political power of their states, using lawful and peaceful means if they worked, but unlawful and violent means if necessary. With savage violence, they “redeemed” the South, ousting integrated state governments and denying equal rights to Blacks.

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UNC lap professor Gene Nichol questionss Republicans’ efforts to gut out the (black) vote in North Carolina. Here’s one of his questions:

When North Carolina Republicans again deploy some of the most aggressively distorted redistricting practices in American history to further a radically anti-egalitarian legislative agenda — to entrench that agenda permanently into the social and political life of North Carolina — can it actually be that the 14th and 15th Amendments are untroubled?

More questions at the link.

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