The Secesh category archive

Via C&L.

Don’t look away, look away.

Look back.

Will Bunch captures the ultimate betrayal embodied in the massacre in Charleston. Here’s the bit the matters; follow the link for the rest:

The fact that these people were killed by a man who pretended to pray alongside them for nearly an hour, . . . .

Until white America confronts and deals with its racists and their racism, disavows the Gone with the Wind and the land of gracious living myths for the lies that they are, repudiates the genteel racism of those who clutch their pearls, express their horror at the deed, while continuing to perpetuate racism by their own deeds, racist terrorism will continue. As Gunnar Myrdal said in the language of another era (roughly paraphrased),

The Negro problem in America is a white problem.

In the larger picture of American history, Charleston was just another lynching. There may not have been a rope, but it was a lynching nonetheless. Until and unless white folks deal with the problem of whiteness, lynchings will continue.

It’s the American way.

This should surprise no one.

. . . and anyone who doesn’t realize that the hysterical wingnut myth of Obama martial law is rooted in racism–in the Secesh’s subconscious dread of another Nat Turner seeking revenge upon the oppressor and the wannabe oppressor–is a damn fool.

Via The Bob and Chez Show Blog.

Invasive specious:

It can be hard to miss at first: a Confederate flag flying from the top of a scrawny tree rising up from the swampy waters just north of the Carolina-Virginia line.

(snip)

Smith said the (Virginia’s Department of Conservation and Recreation–ed.) department, which has just 13 people to oversee 55,000 acres, doesn’t allow the building of structures or postings by citizens on its preservation areas.

The hanging of the flag is “not something that we would condone,” he added.

Follow the link to see the reporter try to put a good face on sedition.

Via Job’s Anger.

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Via The Bob and Chez Show Blog.

George Smith chronicles the latest updates from the Secesh.

Call upon name of the Lord:

Nullify! Nullify!

. . . because nullification worked so well the last time.

Leonard Pitts, Jr., considers the resilience of the Secesh. A snippet–read the rest.

Twice now — at gunpoint in the 1860s, by force of law a century later — the rest of the country has imposed change on the South, made it do what it did not want to do, i.e., extend basic human rights to those it had systematically brutalized and oppressed. No other part of the country has ever experienced that, has ever seen itself so harshly chastised by the rest.

Both times, the act was moral and necessary. But who can deny, or be surprised, that in forcing the South to do the right thing, the rest of the country fostered an abiding resentment, an enduring “apartness,” made the South a region defined by resistance. Name the issue — immigration, race, abortion, education, criminal justice — and law and custom in Dixie have long stood stubbornly apart from the rest of the country.

Reg Henry finds the Sons of Confederate Veterans’ suit to compel Texas to allow them to display the flag of the secesh on their Texas license plates to be less than salutary.

To be fair, those who see the Confederate battle flag as merely a historic artifact of Southern culture cannot be collectively condemned as racists. But those who are offended have their reasons, too. Through the filter of nostalgia, the Confederate cause may seem to be about honor and duty in the service of states’ rights but there’s no getting around the fact that the war to preserve that way of life was at base about preserving bondage based on skin color.

Do follow the link and read the rest.

The South may have lost the war, but it is still fighting to win the peace.