The Secesh category archive
Know Them by the Company They Keep 0
At the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Peter Gariepy suggests that, instead of going to court to block a KKK member who wants to run for the Republican nomination for governor of Missouri, perhaps, instead, the Republican Party should ask itself why a KKK member feels at home running for the Republican Party’s nomination.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Via David Pakman’s Youtube page, Brittany Page explores the New Secesh’s attempts to whitewash (I use that term advisedly) slavery and slaveholders. (As my two or three regular readers know, I have found David to be a reasoned and reliable commentator.)
Afterthought:
I had ancestors who wore the grey. Indeed, one of them is immortalized in the Harper’s Ferry wax museum signing John Brown’s death warrant.*
I do not deny them, but neither do I try to justify what they did. (Understand, perhaps, as one who trained as an historian, but not justify.)
Those who refuse to learn from past evils doom themselves to repeating them.
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*I may have mentioned this before in these electrons, but it was a moment for me when, on a visit to that museum some years ago, Second Son, still in school at the time, looked at the exhibit and said, “So, he was on the wrong side.”
That brought home to me with emphasis that, yes indeed, he was on the wrong side.
It was the wrong side then, and it is the wrong side now.
And it is still rising again after all these years.
Know Them by The Company They Keep,
Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept.
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One wonders just precisely what must one do so as to be given an “honorary membership” in the Ku Klux Klan.
The Lake Effect, Still Rising Again after All These Years Dept. 0
How many are The Secesh?
The Arizona Republic’s E. J. Montini runs the numbers:
It is: Roughly 25%.
The question being: How many Americans do you figure are as wacky as Kari Lake?
Follow the link for the calculations.
Missing the Point 0
At Psychology Today Blogs, Eden King and Mikki Hebl explain that the fuss over DEI is much ado about a misunderstanding. They point out that the term doesn’t mean the bad things that those who oppose claim it does.
What King and Hebl don’t address, though, is this: The persons who oppose DEI detest diversity, equality, and inclusion, regardless of the words used.
Those folks really want to go back to the good old days, if not the 1850s–that’s where their hearts truly yearn to be–at least the 1950s, before Rosa Parks boarded that bus.
It doesn’t help if we look away, look away, look away from what’s going on here and fail refuse to recognize that they are still rising again after all these years.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
There are none so blind as those who don’t want to see.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles M. Blow sees a pattern repeating itself:
He explains his reasons for fearing that at the link.
Still Rising Again after All These Years. 0
Michael Paul Williams visits a museum and explores America’s first and arguably biggest “big lie.”
(Broken link fixed.)
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Jesus, Mary, and Joseph.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
The Republican effort to normalize sedition continues apace.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Derefe Kimarley Chevannes sees a pattern repeating itself:
Yet, America seems intent on repeating its noxious history of Black oppression.
Follow the link for the evidence.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
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.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Patrick Henry once said
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.
