The Secesh category archive
Election Insurrection 0
David talks with a Capitol Police officer, one who voted for Trump in 2016, about the events of January 6, 2021, when Donald Trump tried to overthrow the goverment of the United States.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Historian Charles B. Dew responds to those who would preserve, even celebrate, Confederate monuments because they are “part of history” by reminding them of just what part of history they would cherish. Here’s a bit:
Follow the link for more from the historical record.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Field tries to understand Nikki Haley’s attempt white-wash history in ignoring the uncomfortable fact of America’s Original Sin.
Here’s a bit of his article (emphasis in the original); follow the link for the entire post.
(Broken link fixed.)
See Foot, Shoot Foot, Nikki Foot 0
I linked earlier to PoliticalProf’s post regarding Nikki Halley’s white-washing the reason for the American Civil War.
Halley has since conceded that, yeah, maybe slavery did have a little bit to do with it.
Over at No More Mister Nice Blog, Steve M argues that said concession is not likely to help Halley with the Republican Party’s secessionist base. A snippet:
But Haley can’t do any of that, because her brand is “reasonable-seeming Republican.” She’s polling best in New Hampshire, where members of any party (or no party) can vote in the Republican primary, and where the Republicans are, on average, more moderate than they are in most of the country. Angry wingnuttery might alienate these voters, so she’s ruled it out.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Farron comments on the irrationality of Marjorie Taylor Greene’s most recent call for secession. (Of course, he’s wasting his breath; irrational persons can’t deal with rationality.)
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Charles B. Dew reminds us that, despite the words in the song, today’s planter class wants old times there to be forgotten. (Methinks that may be why they want to ban the teaching of factual history.)
And he offers evidence of why they want those times forgotten.
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When the truth hurts, ignore the truth and complain about the hurt.
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Daniel O. Jamison says that dis coarse discourse is precedented. Here’s how he opens his article:
This attitude apparently traces to Reconstruction, when the organizers of the defunct Confederacy determined to regain the political power of their states, using lawful and peaceful means if they worked, but unlawful and violent means if necessary. With savage violence, they “redeemed” the South, ousting integrated state governments and denying equal rights to Blacks.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
UNC lap professor Gene Nichol questionss Republicans’ efforts to gut out the (black) vote in North Carolina. Here’s one of his questions:
More questions at the link.
Voting Is Not a Right. It Is a Duty. 0
I learned that from my Daddy by example.
He never missed an election, nor have I.
Indeed, I have memories of his making sure his poll tax was paid, back when I was a young ‘un growing up under Jim Crow, when segregation was de jure, and not, as it is today, primarily de facto. (No, it hasn’t gone away. If you think it has, you are kidding yourself. It may not be as obvious, but it still is. Just ask Florida Man.)
We voted Monday at a local early voting site. It was a swift and painless process which took less then 10 minutes from parking the car to pulling out of the parking lot.
And I urge you vote too, if not early, certainly on election day.
Taking a few minutes–or even a few hours–to vote is a small price to pay for preserving democracy.
Don’t exercise your right. Do your duty.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Thom shares the backstory of why the United States is the only major industrialized country that does offer universal health care.
America’s original sin of chattel slavery continues to exact its toll.
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Thom points out that Republicans’ efforts to gut out the vote are rooted in racism.
I’m a Southern Boy. I grew up under Jim Crow and went to segregated schools.
I was there when the first few black students (one the first year, eleven the next year) integrated my formally all-white high school. I was there when I found out that they were people just like me. I was there when one of my white (natch) teachers was horrified that my local paper had switched my name with that of one of my black classmates in a picture of the track team. (As an aside, I didn’t care a bit because he was a good guy. Plus I wasn’t very good at track, though track was good for me, but I was a great scorekeeper.)
I know racism when I see it.
Richard Nixon’s southern strategy has come full circle.
Today’s Republican Party is the party or racism.
It has no ideas.
Racism is all it’s got.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Sam and his crew dissect the falsehoods and delusions in Fox News’s Greg Gutfeld’s call for Civil War v. 2.0.
In a similar vein, Will Bunch highlights Donald Trump’s continuing calls for violence. Just go read it.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
At AL.com, Roy Johnson makes a compelling case that Alabama Senator Tommy Tuberville prefers to judge persons, not by the content of their character, but by the color of their skin.
Whitewashing History 0
At the Des Moines Register, Gerald Ott reacts to Republican attempts to pretend that America’s history wasn’t.
Still Rising Again after All These Years 0
Tommy Tuberville lets his Stars and Bars fly.
I’m a Southern boy.
I grew up under Jim Crow and went to segregated schools.
I know racism when I see it.
This is racism.
“When the Truth Hurts, Hurt the Truth” 0
Michael Paul Williams points out that those who complain most vociferously about “indoctrination” in schools are, in truth, the indoctrinators.
Follow the link for his reasoning.
