The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I suspect that Robert E. Lee, who knew when a cause was lost, would resent being a rallying point for the New Secesh.
The Tiki torch ceremony, which Charlottesville’s Democratic mayor, Mike Signer, likened to KKK tactics “designed to instill fear” in minorities, was staged by a statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee that the Charlottesville City Council recently voted to remove. More than a hundred demonstrators chanted “You will not replace us,” “Blood and soil” and “Russia is our friend.”
Via Raw Story, which reports that there are racist twits on twitter.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that racism elected Trump (of course, if you have been paying attention, you knew that already). A snippet:
In words of one syllable: I told you so.
There was a neon line leading straight from the lavish abuse heaped on Barack Obama to Trump, who asks a black reporter to set up a meeting for him with the Congressional Black Caucus (“Are they friends of yours?”) and tries to hang a “No Muslims” sign on the Statue of Liberty. Yet many white journalists, pundits, authors and academics simply could not see it.
Amen.
Twits on Twitter, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
“War of Northern Aggression” twits.
Light Bloggery (Updated) 0
Posting will be spotty today.
I have some site maintenance to do (I need to deploy SSL* so Firefox and Vivaldi stop nagging me that this site is insecure, even though there’s nothing here that requires security other than my own password, as this is a hobby, not a business and I do not have anyone’s confidential information**), and I have some errands to run, but mostly I need a break.
Reality is just too damned depressing, even though there was a bit of good news from France last night.
Now, if only I could live in a fantasy world where down is up and up is down and lies are truth, as Republicans do . . . .
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*How successful I’ll be is still an open issue.
**The notion that all websites should be SSL, even when there is no legitimate reason for encryption, is a curse and a pox. If I’m visiting, say, IMDB to see who the members of the cast of a movie or television show are and have no intention of logging on (I don’t even have an IMDB logon)–when all I’m doing is looking at a website and not passing any information to it other than what is in my user agent string, when all I am doing is looking at public information–there is no legitimate reason for requiring encryption.
Unnecessary security is not security.
It’s security theatre.
Addendum:
It was too pretty a day to spend it mucking about with computers. I went for a bike ride, then drove my little yellow truck to the grocery store (chicken piccata tonight, yums), then sat on the deck doing a crossword puzzle (this is one household where there is ever a crossword).
Mucking has been postponed until tomorrow and, after I poked about tonight regarding some of the issues I need to resolve, I must say that a call to my hosting provider’s most excellent tech support is a possibility. Fortunately, my phone has a speaker that I can enable so I can do real stuff as I wait for tech support to come live . . . .
And I needed the break from following the Trumpling of the American Dream. It was refreshing to ignore for a short while that the Secesh are now in charge.
Still Rising Again After All These Years 0
Daniel Ruth marvels at the antics of a Florida Republican who is determined to block a memorial to persons held in chattel bondage. A snippet:
Instead Baxley, R-“I Love the Smell of Juleps in the Morning,” said he would prefer a memorial that celebrates people in a more uplifting manner. And since he chairs the Government Oversight and Accountability Committee, where the slavery memorial bill landed, the measure wasn’t even scheduled for a hearing.
. . . because if you don’t talk about it, it didn’t happen, right?
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
This should not surprise you.
This is the United States of America. Everything eventually wends its way back to race.
Work Stoppage 0
Josh Marshall marvels at Trump’s threats to Trumple the govenment. A snippet:
This looks for all the world that the Republican Party is ready to secede, if not de jure, then certainly de facto.
More at the link.
Southern Heritage 0
(Post fixed.)
From the land of gracious living: Deneen Brown writes of two historians who are trying to compile a complete listing of ads still extant for runaway slaves in the ante bellum South.
Click to see the article with more examples of gracious living.
A web search for “runaway slaves ads” will turn up a number of sites with actual historical facts that the New Secesh want to pretend don’t exist.
Aside:
I must have broken this post when I was troubleshooting the sidebar issue.
Race in the Presidential Race 0
The discussion does not accept the poll’s result uncritically, but does dig into the methodology and possible flaws in the poll.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One more time, when you hear or see persons glorify the “Lost Cause,” ask them to explain precisely just what exactly was the cause that was lost.
A dollar to a doughnut you won’t get a straight answer.
Stray Thought, Going Rogue Dept. 0
The uncomfortable truth–the one that no one dares to talk about–is that the United States of America has Trumpled its way to becoming a rogue nation.
The next stop is pariah.
Frankly, if things continue on the course of the past week, I’d not be surprised if civilized nations begin to impose sanctions on the Trumpled States of America within the next six months.
Distressed and depressed. Not surprised.
A Day at the Museum 0
Cordell Faulk visits the Smithsonian’s new National Museum of African American History and Culture. A snippet (follow the link for the rest):
Right there, in all their blunt starkness — above chains used for adults — was a set of shackles used to restrain children during the passage from Africa to the New World. They were just very, very small — unspeakably small. . . .
One more time: When you hear persons lament the “Lost Cause,” ask them this: “What, precisely, was the Cause that was Lost?”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Flagging Interests 0
Writing at The Roanoke Times, Halford Ryan wonders what would be the results were the Sons of Confederate Veterans and similar groups admit to themselves, as well as to others, what the Confederate Battle Ensign, to which they vow such fealty, stood for. (Oh, they know all right. They know also that admitting that they know would be really bad PR.)
In a related story, Badtux muses on how the South never stopped rising again.