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Hostess Screwballs 0
Over at Balloon Juice, Adam Silverman is following the trial of the Bundy Bund, mostly from articles at the Portland Oregonian website.
He’s given them the delicious aptonym, Snack Team Six.
Afterthought:
One suspects that the Bundy Bund will be taken aback to learn that the U. S. Constitution does not say what they have dreamed it says in their fever dreams.
No government’s founding documents (or, in the days before “documents,” traditions) would reserve to citizens a rights of insurrection. The concept is so illogical as to be inconceivable to a well-ordered mind.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
I recently had occasion to take issue with someone who, in the context of another discussion, characterized the American Civil War as a “mass uprising” against government misconduct.
As my two or three regulars readers might guess, I begged to differ. Well, maybe “begged” isn’t exactly the right word. I’m rather proud of what I said, so I’d like to share it here, with some slight editing. It’s below the fold, if you are interested (in fact, it’s below the fold even if you are not interested).
Their Day in Court 0
The Bundy Bund goes to trial.
Rebranding. It’s a Thing. 0
There is nothing new or even alternative about the “alt-right.”
It’s the same old right, only with new sheets.
Civil Rights Movement, Act Two 0
At the Ashland, Oregon, Daily Tidings, Herb Rothschild posits that we are seeing a second Civil Rights Movement. Whereas the first was directed at legally-enforced discrimination (Jim Crow laws, segregated public institutions, red-lining neighborhoods and the like), this one is directed at gaining social equality, that is, equality in deed, not just in word.*
Just as the first Civil Rights Movement engendered opposition, so too has this one, as the Republican Party has become little more than the Party of the New Secesh. An excerpt:
This year is shaping up to be for the second struggle what 1964-1965 was for the first. On one side, Republican officials at every level have been openly combative since a black person was elected president. Now their George Wallace has emerged, and this time they’ve embraced him. Hate speech and hate crimes are increasing. In April the Southern Poverty Law Center published research indicating the Trump campaign is inflaming racial and ethnic tensions in U.S. classrooms nationwide. On the other side, graphic exposure by phone cameras has made routine police violence against people of color no longer tolerable and sparked renewed grassroots activism.Do please read the rest.
Image via Michael-in-Norfolk.
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*The actual extent to which “equality in word,” as opposed to “equality in deed,” has been achieved, of course, is arguable and has been spotty, at best.
It is not just chance that, until the rise of Donald Trump, though, racists have been restricted to speaking in code since the 1970s. Now they’ve dropped the codes as they rally for racism.
“The Lost Cause” 0
Once more, the next time you hear persons wax romantic about the “the Lost Cause,” please ask them to identify what precisely was the cause that was lost.
And, yes, in case you were wondering, I’m a Southern Boy. Some of my ancestors were slaveholders. The cause that was lost was their cause. I cannot repudiate my ancestors–as Todd says, it is what it is–but I can and must repudiate their cause.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Really, now, you do realize these are just innocent Civil War re-enactors, do you not?
(snip)
The Polaris had a Confederate flag attached to it and was driven by a man who allegedly approached the victim and said, “You need to leave,” followed by a slur for African-Americans. The man then repeated the slur, telling the victim that such people “get hung around these parts.”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
One more time, when you hear someone wax romantic about “The Lost Cause,” ask, “What, exactly, was the cause that was lost?”
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
In Republican World, Pickett is always charging.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
It would appear that Reconstruction v. 2.0 needs to be installed.
One of the things that continually amazes and bemuses me, when it’s not horrifying and disgusting me, is the ability of racists to convince themselves that, somehow, their racism isn’t racist. It’s something I’ve observed since I first became aware.
Nothing better illustrates how easily persons turn a blind eye upon themselves.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Imagine this: you go to a yard sale and the Civil War breaks out.
Thomas Lee Campbell, 54, is facing charges of brandishing a firearm and vandalism for confronting Cierra Mayes in his yard after he had already shoved branches through her car windshield and left a nasty note reading: “F*ck you.”