The Secesh category archive
None Dare Call It Treason 0
They call it “heritage.”
“The Smart One” 0
Charles Blow describes a moment of accidental candor.
Satanic Writes 0
A copy of The Clansman, written by a Baptist preacher often described as the “Billy Graham of his day” in terms of his popularity, resided on my parents’ bookshelf. I don’t know that they ever read it. Likely they had inherited it, but no doubt they knew of it. It was probably a fixture in many Southern white households of a certain day.
I was never tempted to read it, I can’t say why. My hand hovered over it many times, but I did not pick it up.
It’s a book that still influences today. It was the source for D. W. Griffith’s vile movie, Birth of a Nation*, a propaganda piece for Jim Crow created by scions of the Secesh. Many of today’s images of freed slaves and their descendants (think watermelons and fried chicken) can be traced to that book and movie.
Yesterday, I listened to the podcast of last Friday’s Another View, which featured a discussion of Birth of a Nation. You should listen too.
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*The “nation” in question was the terrorist organization called the Ku Klux Klan, which D. W. Griffith thought was a Good Thing. ‘Nuff said.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
So completely did the South win the peace that no one dares to point out that it was the flag of treason.
Code Words 1
Gerald Haslam explains how they work in the Party of the New Secesh.
Just read it. No summary or excerpt can suffice.
Readers’ Corner 0
If you have not read the autobiography of Frederick Douglass, do so now. I just did, for the first time I feel shame to say. Douglass was a fine writer and the book is short; you can read it in three hours or so. Be prepared for discomfort; words are not minced.
Do yourself an extra favor and skip the bloviating introductions by William Lloyd Garrison et al., which illustrate every pomposity of Victorian writing. Go right to Douglass’s narrative.
When you are done, you will have a better understanding of and historical context for today’s Republican Party and the “religious right.”
“A Nation of Immigrants” 0
Sam and his guest explain how Donald Trump’s opposition to “birthright” citizenship echoes of the Secesh.
Schlemiel, Schlimazl, Schmart One 0
Dick Polman comments on Jeb Bush’s decision to play the “Asian” card. Here’s a bit.
Well, that clears things up. He hadn’t meant to smear Hispanics. He was trying to smear Asians.
And this guy is supposed to be the smart Bush.
Patriot Games 0
Honest to Pete, you can’t make this stuff up.
Ken Burning the Confederate Flag 0
Excerpt from Ken Burns’s statements:
The main American theme, I think, is freedom. But we also notice that race is always there. . . .
And we struggle with it. We try to ignore it. We pretend, with the election of Barack Obama, that we’re in some post-racial society. And what we have seen is a kind of reaction to this. The birther movement, of which Donald Trump is one of the authors of, is another politer way of saying the N word. It’s just more sophisticated and a little bit more clever. He’s ‘other.’
What’s actually ‘other’ and different about him? It turns out it’s the same old thing. It’s the color of his skin.
Via Raw Story.