Joe Wilson a big fan of commemorating treason in defense of slavery and lawlessness in defense of apartheid.
Tag: Treason in Defense of Slavery
…Ta Nehisi Coates. That is all.
What really bugs me is the monument to the Jefferson Davis highway in Washington state. If someone bought a monument to Hitler, would the state put that up too?
Mr. Trevino took issue with my claim that Texas has seceded from two different countries in order to protect the right of white people to own black people. Dr. Loomis takes issue with Mr. Trevino, and messes with Texas in the process.
Erik makes an important point; Texas has thus far seceded from two different countries in order to defend the right of white people to own black people. In that context, seceding in order to maintain
Via Think Progress, Alexandra Liddy Bourne of the Heartland Institute, speaking to the Heritage Foundation: So yet again, the South has to pay on its back the cost of using coal in this country to the
It’s always refreshing when a Republican candidate embraces neo-confederatism. Reaffirms my faith in the Party of Lincoln. Huck: “You don’t like people from outside the state coming in and telling you what to do with your flag,” Mr. Huckabee, a former governor of Arkansas, told supporters in Myrtle Beach, according to The Associated Press. “In […]
Via Matt comes this map, which is genuinely awesome. I initially thought that it was an overlay of density data on an old map, but apparently it was created by Francis Carpenter in 1861. It demonstrat
December 7, 1863. Via Alterdestiny.
I almost forgot to wish everyone a Happy Treason-in-Defense-of-Slavery Day. December 20 marks the anniversary of South Carolina’s 1860 decision to leave the Union, in whose newly elected Republican leaders the state’s propertied elites spied a grievous threat to the principle of perpetual black servitude. I’ve got a post on the secession ordinance itself over […]