The Secesh category archive
Playing the Race Card 0
Thom discusses how the Republican Party chose to become the party of the New Secesh. It happened a long time ago, folks.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Henry A. Giroux sees a dark future of reaction and repression in the United States. Here’s snippet:
The repressive racial state is certain to intensify and expand under Jeff Sessions — a strong advocate of mass incarceration and the death penalty, and a white nationalist spokesman for the Old South. The Nation’s Ari Berman observes that Sessions is “the fiercest opponent in the Senate of immigration reform, a centerpiece of Trump’s agenda, and has a long history of opposition to civil rights, dating back to his days as a US Attorney in Alabama in the 1980s.”
Sessions has a long history of racist rhetoric, insults and practices, including opposing the Voting Rights Act and addressing a Black lawyer as “boy.”
Much, much more at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In a column that starts out in a rather silly way, Josh Gohlke winds to an important point: the Electoral College is a legacy of America’s original sin of chattel slavery. A nugget:
Now that legacy is about to pay off for the Secesh.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Rael points out what should be obvious.
Read the rest.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
John Romano considers an incident in a Florida school and looks for some hope.
The incident.
And yet there it was this month on the wall of a girl’s bathroom at an Orlando-area high school. It warned blacks to start picking out their slave numbers and was gleefully punctuated by “KKK 4 lyfe.”
Below it, in larger letters, was a final thought:
“Go Trump 2016.”
Follow the link and decide whether he found any hope.
Still Rising Again after All These Years, Core Values Dept. 2
Over at Delaware Liberal, Evey shreds to pretense of the “Alt-Right” to be anything other than what they are: the latest attempt of the Secesh to repackage themselves. A snippet (emphasis in the original):
That sentence is nothing more than a thinly, thinly veiled* attempt to sanitize racism.
Read the whole thing.
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*I would argue that it’s not “thinly veiled,” merely paraphrased.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
A century and a half later, the Confederate States of America wins another battle in the Civil War.
None Dare Call It Terrorism 0
White Privilege
Jesus.
Were it a private dwelling, the deed would have been a “home invasion.”
Work with me here. Just for a moment, imagine that they were Not White.
Think about it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
You’ve heard of Mosby’s Rangers?
Meet Trump’s terrorists.
“The callers were threatening to come over and burn down the building and to shoot up the building,” John Swaine, the museum’s CEO, told the News and Observer. “They’ve lessened in frequency this week, but they’re still coming in.”
(snip)
Swaine said that he denied the Trump campaign’s request for a tour on Sept. 20 because the campaign asked for the museum to be closed for five hours and for Trump to be videotaped walking through the exhibits.