The Secesh category archive

He’s quite correct, you know.

The Roanoke Times, in a long and thoughtful piece, considers the efforts this year to remove Confederate monuments and memoribilia from public display. Remember, most of these took place after Dylan Roof tried to rally the Secesh to a new race war by killing persons in a church. Here’s a bit; the whole thing is worth a read:

We thought eastern Europeans were right when they started hauling down statues of Lenin and Marx and Stalin after the end of the Cold War — and when Iraqis pulled down statues of Saddam Hussein. We also think the Taliban and the Islamic State are being grotesquely wrong when they go about blowing up ancient statues on the grounds that they’re heathen symbols. So where on that continuum of history do some of our symbols fall?

Here is one question to ask as Confederate symbols or even non-Confederate ones come up for review: Does their display constitute an endorsement of the politics behind them?

At some level, the answer may always be “yes.” Otherwise, why else would the historical figure have been honored in the first place? There’s a national movement among conservative activists to name more things after Ronald Reagan. They’re not doing that simply because they thought Reagan was a congenial fellow — they’re doing it to validate his philosophy for history.

Jeb Bush spoke some truth (granted, he left out the part about the Civil War being about slavery and nothing else, but the whole damn country has left that out for 150 years).

His chances for the Republican nomination likely ended yesterday, but I must tip my hat to him. In today’s Republican Party, confronting the New Secesh takes guts.

The Secesh hijack a Christmas parade, because there’s no time like Christmas to celebrate treason and bondage.

Words fail me.

Nothing I can say expresses the depth of my disgust and contempt.

Shorter Lou Dubose: “Know them by the company they keep.” (Follow the link for the longer version.)

A South Carolina lawmaker has sent out a Christmas card featuring a photo of the Confederate flag that refers to “memories of a happier time” and suggests those who voted to remove the flag from in front of the Statehouse ask God for forgiveness for their “betrayal.”

He says it was a joke and meant only for his fellow secesh Republicans.

As Sergeant Schultz would say, “Jolly joke.”

Aside:

I’m a Southern Boy. I assure you, it weren’t no joke.

“Post-racial.”

Yeah.

Right.

The Rocky Mount man who was convicted of hanging a noose in his front yard — and who is due to be sentenced for that crime next week — is back in jail, accused of making another provocative public display.

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On Tuesday, police said Turner was arrested for a second time after he put up a sign in front of his home that read “N—– lives don’t matter. Got rope?”

And it’s about damned time.

The historic St. Paul’s Episcopal Church known as the “Cathedral of the Confederacy” has begun removing all images of the Confederate flag from within its walls.

The measure includes six plaques with various versions of the Confederate flag, the church’s coat of arms with the flag on kneelers at the high altar, and bookplates in some books in the church’s library.

But it was not entirely voluntary:

Soon after (the church shootings in South Carolina–ed.), the General Convention of the Episcopal Church passed a resolution urging their churches nationwide to remove any Confederate battle flags.

St. Paul’s Episcopal Church in downtown Richmond across from Capitol Square has not flown the Confederate flag since the 1960s.

Via my local rag.

It would seem that battle ensign of the forces who fought to perpetuate slavery and bondage has somehow morphed into a symbol of freedom.

Freedom for whom is left unstated.

What she said.

I may have mentioned before in these electrons the time that I and my now-ex and Second Son were touring the Harpers Ferry Wax Museum and came across a representation of one of my ancestors in the act of signing John Brown’s death warrant.

Second Son looked disturbed. He was silent for a time.

Then he said, “So he was on the wrong side.”

That’s when I realized that “heritage” should sometimes be contemned, not treasured.

Halford Ryan points out that Mark Twain got it right.

There’s still some fight in them good ole boys.

A man was arrested after allegedly detonating an explosive device inside a Tupelo, Mississippi, Wal-Mart early Sunday morning.

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In comment threads on the Daily Journal website, a commenter named Marshall Leonard has posted often about his support for the Confederate flag. He blamed Mississippi media outlets and retail stores, including Wal-Mart, for the recent actions to remove the Confederate battle flag emblem from the public eye.

No one was injured. The story does not mention the size or type of the bomb explosive device.

(Updated to include more information.)

James Klagge points out that symbols symbolize.

It’s the big lie of the secesh, the big lie they tell themselves even more than they tell it to others: the big lie that the Civil War was not about slavery.

Some folks at Ole Miss held a rally against the Stars and Bars.

They were countered by the Secesh:

As the rally began to come to a close, a small group of Confederate flag-waving whites — children as well as adults — marched onto the scene. Campus police came quickly to the scene as students from the rally began to shout at the group.

“Are you a racist?” one asked.

“Absolutely,” said one of the flag-bearers, whose sign also indicated that he was a member of the Killen, Alabama-based League of the South, a Southern secessionist organization.

Follow the link for more.

Unreconstructed frolics.

Bet those good ol’ boys never expected this.

Confederate flag supporters who became involved in a confrontation with a black family hosting a birthday party in Douglas County this summer have been indicted on charges filed under a state’s anti-terroristic threats law.

District Attorney Brian Fortner’s office said a grand jury handed down the indictments Friday against 15 members of the group “Respect the Flag.” The DA said the group violated the state’s Street Gang Terrorism and Prevention Act and is accused of making terroristic threats. Two members also are accused of battery.

We’ll see if it ever gets to trial.