The Secesh category archive
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
A century and a half ago, men dressed up in masks to terrorize, capture, torture, and sometimes kill folks whose skin was darker than theirs.
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*Mark Twain.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Washington Monthly, Paul Finkelman looks at Donald Trump’s proposed immigration “policy” changes and hears a rhyme from the past. Here’s a tiny bit (emphasis added); follow the link for the rest.
And the Trump maladministration moves to close that door once more.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority fabricated to rationalize it continue to take their toll.
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*Mark Twain.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
Via the Sacramento Bee, Stephen Mihm hears a rhyme from another time when America closed the golden door to huddled masses yearning to breathe free because they just weren’t white enough.
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*Mark Twain.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The evidence continues to mount that Richard Nixon’s “southern strategy” has come full circle and that today’s Republican Party is the party of the Secesh.
“History Does Not Repeat Itself, but It Often Rhymes”* 0
- Thom hears a rhyme
From another time
When men in hoods
Roamed the woods,
With crosses ablaze
Through nights and days.
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*Mark Twain.
Republican Thought Police 0
Anita Chabria conjugates the latest con from Donald Trump’s Ministry of Truth.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Trump maladmnistration wants them darkies to know their place.
Stray Thought 0
Today’s Republican Party does not want to govern.
It wants to dictate.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At the Washington Monthly, Richard D. Kahlenberg peers behind the sheets of a recent action of the Trump maladministration and concludes that
Trump’s new enemy appears to be racial diversity itself . . . .
Follow the link to find out why he reached that conclusion.
“An Armed Society Is a Polite Society” 0
The Secesh are rising again after all these years, but doing so oh so politely.
Details at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam talks with Ari Berman about how John Roberts’s Supreme Supremacist Court has been working to gut the Voting Rights Act that, per the Encyclopedia Britannica, “aimed to overcome legal barriers at the state and local levels that prevented African Americans from exercising their right to vote under the Fifteenth Amendment (1870) to the Constitution of the United States.”
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to take its toll.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
David comments on Donald Trump’s efforts to whitewash–you will pardon the expression–America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the doctrine of racial superiority that was fabricated to rationalize it.
Establishmentarians 0
Via The Sacramento Bee, Bryan Clark takes a look behind the robes of America’s establishmentarians. A snippet; follow the link for context.
Also, too . . . .
Metamorphosis 0
David discusses how Nixon’s southern strategy led to today’s Republican Party. Methinks he makes valid points. (Warning: Short commercial at the end.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Reprise 0
America’s original sin of chattel slavery and the myth of racial superiority that was fabricated to justify excuse it continue to exact their toll. (Warning: Language.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom discusses the current gerrymandering struggle going on in Texas. (Warning: Short commercial at about the two minute mark.)