If you say stuff like this, you might be a redneck.
“Somebody needs to say a good word for slavery. Where in the world are the Negroes better off today than in America?” — Jack Kershaw, League of the South board member, 1998.
If you have served as the League of the South’s western Arkansas chapter chairman, you might be a newly elected member of the state House of Representatives.
…there are Republicans and there is Republican Loy Mauch, elected to represent House District 26 near Hot Springs. A former head of the Sons of the Confederate Veterans post in Hot Springs, Mauch calls the Confederate flag “a symbol of Jesus Christ,” and is a current member of The League of the South, a group which works toward the formation of an independent Southern nation.
Founded in 1994 in Killen, Ala., The League of the South advocates for “the secession and subsequent independence of the southern states from this forced union and the formation of a southern republic,” according to the “Introduction” page on its website.
I particularly like this part:
When asked what the Confederate flag symbolizes, Mauch said: “It’s a symbol of constitutional government. It’s a symbol of Jesus Christ above all else. It’s a symbol of Biblical government.”
Give this guy a few years and he’ll probably be the governor, or a member of the U.S. Senate.
This is what we’re dealing with, people.
Can we start sending them boxes, so they can pack? Seriously, I’m willing to let them go. We’ll airlift the sane people out and bring them north.
One more example of the frighteningly idiotic reality that is Republican World. Liberals are traitors by nature while those openly advocating treason get elected to Congress. Makes sense to me!
These people would be sadly hilarious / hilariously sad if they didn’t have so much influence. But you kind of have to laugh at them anyway just to stay sane.
In large swaths of the US one is relegated to the status of The Enemy. There is no reasoning with them. You’d have better luck conversing with a zombie.
(shrug) Until white folks care about being racist, it will continue and grow. Just like it has been for years, due to the wonderful cover-up job done by white folks.
Dude, do you see the slightest bit of irony in your comments?
Then why fly the wrong flag?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flags_of_the_Confederate_States_of_America
They say this BS and then fly the one that is the most provocative.
nalbar
You do provocative things if your intention is to provoke….
The Bible says plainly that a borrower is a slave to the lender. Slavery is thus back with vengeance in the US, and in the world.
Yeah, anybody know who has all Ireland’s money? It ain’t me.
they truly are who we thought they were. any person who defends the Confederate flag on any grounds, I know who they are.
my enemy
Thanks for the post, BooMan. Horrifying. And truly stranger than fiction. You can’t make this up.
This is what happens when you neglect a geographical part of the country because “it’s not cost-effective to campaign there.” And these jokers don’t go away if you let the South secede, they just have more power plus their own Army, Navy, and Air Force–and one hell of a lot of Marines. Remember, we’ve been down that road.
The South’s institutional segregation was broken by direct action within the South and support from outside the South, plus a President who could not tolerate the disruption and a Vice-President who believed in change and had the misfortune to become President when the President was assassinated.
So regaining momentum for reform in the South is necessary to sending these guys back into the woodwork, while the South works itself out of its cultural and political cul-de-sac.
Having some legal action to determine the legal status of segregation academies would seem to be a first step. They are nothing more than a subversion of the Civil Rights laws through hiding behind private incorporation and the cloak of religion. And there should also be legal action to disqualify private school parents from sitting on public school boards; that is a conflict of interest.
Most states have constitutional provisions (mostly ignored) requiring adequate state funding of education. That could be another legal point of pressure.
And folks outside the South should have the guts this time to see the process through instead of abandoning it the first time a Louise Day Hicks appears.