The Secesh category archive
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.
All That Was Old Is New Again 0
The things that wingnuts and Christianists are saying about the gay marriage ruling remind me of what segregationists said after Brown vs. Board of Education of Topeka et al back in the olden days, when I was young ‘un growing up under Jim Crow.
The tune is the same. Only the lyrics have changed, and they but slightly; the hate remains intact.
The Confederate Party 0
The Booman looks at data from the last two Presidential elections and draws a conclusion.
Nixon’s odious southern strategy has reached fruition.
Follow the link for the Booman’s much-more nuanced analysis and predictions.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
James Bond was “licensed to kill” in a fictional world that never existed.
Allow me to introduce you to those who would be “licensed to hate” in the real world that we all must share.
Afterthought:
My family has lived in Virginia since 1613; it has shared and participated in Virginia’s sins and in its virtues.
These persons make me ashamed to be a Virginian, for they would perpetuate Virginia’s greatest sin.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and Pap cut through the Rebel crap.
Flagging Interests 0
Jonathan Chait contemplates the veneration of the Stars and Bars:
Follow the link for his attempt to untwist that logic.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom asks about racism,
Why are we not calling this unpatriotic?
Monumental Events 0
Before every courthouse in every city and county in the South stands a Confederate monument. It commonly takes the form of a statue of a soldier atop a pillar and bears some sort of inscription in memory of those who fought for the Secesh.
Unlike the Confederate battle ensign, Confederate monuments have not become symbols of contemporary hate; for most, I suspect, they fade into the background, though I must admit that this is my own not-black perspective. I have not yet seen a bumper sticker of a Confederate monument on a pick-up truck between the NRA sticker and the Gadsden flag license plate.
Nevertheless, the Charleston shootings and the recent decisions on the part of some stores and governors to remove the Stars and Bars from sale and display have rippled out to include them. In Jefferson Davis’s capital, someone had the gall, the unmitigated gall, to “deface” (in the words of the news story) one with the slogan, “Black Lives Matter.”
Closer to home, the resident curmudgeon of my local rag (working motto: “Other people can’t have nice things”), pretzels her logic to defend a local one as a benign symbol of another time.