The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
PragerU wants your kids to be taught that theft of labor is a good thing.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The Philadelphia Inquirer’s Will Bunch sees a parallel:
Gov. Robert K. Scott told the president that loyalists to the party that got fewer voters “will not submit to any election which does not place them in power.” He further warned: “I am convinced that an outbreak will occur here [on] the day appointed by law for the counting of ballots.”
The year was 1870, and the state was South Carolina.
Follow the link for more echoes from the past.
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At AL.com, John Archibald looks at the efforts in some southern states to whitewash–I use that term advisedly–their history of slavery and racism and wonders what all the fuss is about.
After all, he points out, old times there are not forgotten.
“Slaves developed skills which, in some instances, could be applied for their personal benefit,” according to Florida’s new social studies standards.
The South – the whole country, really – doesn’t need to study real history anymore.
It’s too busy living it.
Follow the link for the rest.
One Thing Is Like the Other Thing 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, it was perfectly okay to use race to keep persons out of college (and many other places).
Now, per the Supreme Supremacist Court, it’s not okay to use race to help them get into college.
Yup. They are still rising again after all these years.
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Richard Nixon’s Southern Strategy has come full circle.
The “Party of Lincoln” is now the “Party of Stinkin’.”
Image via Juanita Jean.
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On-the-job training, Florida style:
Image via Yellowdoggranny.
Afterthought:
It occurs to me that a case could be made that some states are trying to secede once more all over again, but this time they’ve chosen not to put it in writing.
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Arkansas Senator wants to go back to the land of Cotton and to make sure the old times there are not forgotten.
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At the Ames, Iowa, Tribune, Walter Suza explores why some persons are so opposed to DEI (i. e., diversity, equality, and inclusion). A nugget (emphasis added):
DEI is also about becoming willing to admit that inequity has existed in America for so long that it appears as normal. Inequity being normal makes DEI abnormal. The result is some opposing DEI because it threatens their own power or rights , , , ,
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Sometimes, they slip up and show us who they really are.
Plus Ca Change 0
At the San Francisco Chronicle, Hakeem Jefferson reminds us that what Frederick Douglass said almost two centuries ago is still true today.
By the by, if you haven’t read Frederick Douglass’s autobiography, you can get it a Project Gutenberg.
Base Desires 0
David Atkins suggests that those who believe that Donald Trump, billionaire donors, or even Fox News is in charge to the Republican Party are, as my old boss would have said, in error. Here’s a bit from his article:
Follow the link for his reasoning.