When will the DUmp's obsession with the Confederacy end?

[BannedFromDU]

damnedifIknow (2,720 posts)

The Confederacy was the Islamic State of Its Time

If ever a cause was unworthy, that cause was the US Confederacy. If ever a cause was righteously defeated, it was the cause of the US Confederacy. And if ever a flag was and is an insult to human decency and dignity, it is the US Confederate flag.

The mere fact this is still being debated in the United States, the fact there are those who continue to accord a nobility, valor, and romanticism to the Confederacy – regarded wistfully as the ‘Lost Cause’ by its adherhents – this is evidence of the deep polarization that divides a society yet to fully come to terms with its legacy of slavery, racial oppression, and barbarism."

*Racial oppression, whether delivered from the gun of a mass murderer in a South Carolinian church, or the gun of a police officer, has yet to be expunged in the land of the free, even though 150 years have passed since the Confederacy was defeated in battle.

*The end of Reconstruction in 1877, and the withdrawal of federal troops from states such as South Carolina, resulted in the plight of blacks in said states suffering a sharp reverse. The Klu Klux Klan’s influence and power as America’s first terrorist organization instantly made its presence felt, measured in the rise and entrenchment of white supremacy as a state and culture of segregation returned across the South. Blacks were lynched, murdered, and tortured with impunity from then on, and their status as second-class citizens entrenched.

This mindset remains a fact of life not just across the South but also across the United States, carried in the hearts and minds of right wing Republicans and a reactionary media that on a daily and nightly basis whips up divisions and spews prejudice and racial stereotypes with blithe disregard for common decency.

By far the most compelling evidence of this culture of racial prejudice, however, has been the treatment of the nation’s first black president, Barack Obama, since he entered the White House in 2009. Never has a US President been subjected to such a sustained campaign of demonization and hate as he has.

*There was nothing noble or romantic about the Confederacy, and its defeat marked a victory for human progress."

http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/06/30/the-confederacy-was-the-islamic-state-of-its-time/

Really? Then when are you Yankees going to take up arms against ISIS?


Seriously - this Roof kid has touched off feelings dormant in the DUmmies since 1865, I imagine. Whereas the rest of us are living our lives, DUmmies are still bitter over something they don't understand that happened 150 years ago.  Jesus. Can't we bring back the gender wars again?

[Chris_]

damnedifIknow (2,720 posts)

The Confederacy was the Islamic State of Its Time

And it was controlled by the Democratic Party.

[JohnnyReb]

And it was controlled by the Democratic Party.

Right up until 1964 and later in a good portion of it.....didn't call it the solid south for nothing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-CkIGvO0qbw

[BlueStateSaint]

And it was controlled by the Democratic Party.

One minor change, Chris.

Also, the gender wars will heat up as soon as Hillary wins the Democrat(ick) nomination.

[hillneck]

It just gives those miserable F**ks at DUmmieland something to bitch about.  You could ban the battle flag and wipe out anything about American history during that time period and they would just find something else to complain about.  Case in point is the revisionist history they already try to push around about the Confederacy and it's symbols.

Never has a US President been subjected to such a sustained campaign of demonization and hate as he has.

Really!  I'm sure we could find some of the evil, nasty BS you idiots said and still say about Presidents Reagan and Bush.