The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
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.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Some folks at Ole Miss held a rally against the Stars and Bars.
They were countered by the Secesh:
“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.
Southern Gentlemen 0
Bet those good ol’ boys never expected this.
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.
An Ex-Republican Explains Why He Left 0
He left because the Republican Party has become the party of the Secesh and of the Dominionists.
More at the link.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
When I was a young ‘un, back in the olden days, I was forced bused.
I was forced bused right past the black high school to the white high school farther down the road. This clown no doubt would have thought that that was the bee’s knees and the cat’s meow.
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.”