The Secesh category archive
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Warning: Language.
“Historical” /= “Honorable” 0
A California Democratic State Senator has a proposal. Here’s a bit from his article in the Sacramento Bee:
I don’t want to erase their names from our history books; I just don’t want our children looking up to people who fought for a system that treated humans as chattel.
This is the basis for my legislation, Senate Bill 539, the Frederick Douglass Liberty Act, which seeks to remove names of elected and military leaders of the Confederachttp://www.sacbee.com/opinion/op-ed/soapbox/article27733588.htmly from public places, including parks, buildings, roadways and schools.
I fear it is too much to hope that the big lie of Gone with the Wind and the “Land of Gracious Living” has run its course. I expect that the New Secesh will double-down on their culture of insurrection, on holding on to what they gained after losing the war, but winning the peace.
Nevertheless, it’s good to see public persons scrounge up the courage to call out the lie.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Yeah. They decry “anti-Southernism” while relentlessly turning their faces from the meaning of “Southernism.”
And, in the same item, an ex-actor suffers a sense of residual loss.
Ben Jones, a former U.S. House member known for playing Cooter on the TV show “The Dukes of Hazzard,” said Thursday that there’s been a “visceral reaction to this wave of cultural cleansing.” Those who see the Confederate flag as indisputably racist, Jones said, went “a bridge too far” by pulling “Dukes of Hazzard” reruns off the air.
More self-righteous Pharisaical hypocritical bigotry at the link.
Helm’s Derp 0
Back in the olden days, when I was a young ‘un and the interstate highway was still a dream, we would occasionally get caught behind an Army convoy on two lane roads.
It would seem endless, but it was but a blip compared to the cavalcade of crazy in Texas.
How Stuff Works: The “Heritage” Con 0
Steven Conn explains how it works. A snippet:
Heritage, by contrast, is a mythologized version of the past, stripped of all the unpleasant parts. Heritage remains largely impervious to historical evidence and relies instead on a past-as-we-wish-it-were version of events. It trades in emotions and personal connections, putting itself beyond debate or reproach. History is often not lovable, but everyone loves his or her heritage.
Do please follow the link and read the complete essay.
Symbol of Southern Heritage 0
In The Roanoke Times, Virginia Tech professon Wornie Reed deconstructs the symbolism. (Hint: It ain’t rum punch on the veranda, folks.)
Here’s a bit (emphasis added).
The “Southern Heritage” it celebrates is the heritage of chattel slavery. All the rest is window treatments.
The Confederate Party . . . 0
. . . struggles to retain its flag.
Nixon’s odious southern strategy has finished devouring the “Party of Lincoln.”
Heritage 0
Meanwhile, John Martin considers his own “Southern heritage” and the big lie that is Gone with the Wind, a lie that lives with us still. Here’s a bit:
This is as deep and elemental as my Southern heritage gets, a direct link to our nation’s Original Sin.
Image via Job’s Anger.
The New Nihilists 0
Brian Greenspun, publisher of The Las Vegas Sun, has had enough (emphasis added).
This time there are people upset about Obamacare and marriage. That’s not going to change. There will always be people upset when the Supreme Court acts. That is the nature of court rulings.
What should upset us more, though, are political leaders under the guise of conservatism crying out for the impeachment of justices and the ignoring of lawful court orders.
There is nothing conservative about trying to lead people — emotionally and otherwise distraught people, depending upon the issue — toward a path of ignoring our Constitution and our rule of law. That is the way of anarchists, not conservatives.
More fed-upedness at the link.