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October 23rd, 2016 - 1:44 am § in Misc.

The Glory of the Rebel Flag

Watch more : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M7iHJlGDL64[...]

October 21st, 2016 - 4:18 am § in Misc.

AFTER TRUMP: A Century and a half after the Civil War, South Carolina remains true to its colors.

  Living in a state where college presidents dress up as Confederate generals and where there is an annual holiday to celebrate the romance of the confederacy, how is this a surprise? The sad thing is the self serving and self satisfied folks who move there, living a fantasy, celebrating when it to[...]

September 27th, 2016 - 1:16 am § in America

Radical Republicans: How The Repugnant Party Started

Lee Atwater Schooled Repubs on How to Win With Ignorant Southern Racists Where did today’s off-their rockers Republicans get their start?  How did the party of Taft, Hoover, Dewey and Eisenhower become obsessed with race and communism?   Former Republican campaign consultant Lee Atwater exp[...]

September 12th, 2016 - 1:13 pm § in America

REAGAN: A New State of the New Confederacy

New Country Name ‘Reagan’ Douglas MacKinnon is a conservative columnist and former Reagan administration aide and he has written with a new book calling for Southern states to secede. In an interview with Janet Mefferd about his book, “The Secessionist States of America: The Blueprint for Crea[...]

July 8th, 2016 - 7:00 am § in Misc.

140th Anniversary of The End of Reconstruction

BLACK THEN: HAMBURG MASSACRE OF 1876: ALL-BLACK COMMUNITY RACE RIOT AGAINST WHITE TOWNSPEOPLE 1 POSTED BY JAE JONES – APRIL 7, 2016 – LATEST POSTS, RECONSTRUCTION The Hamburg Massacre of 1876 was a race riot between community’s Black militia and white residents from the surrounding rur[...]

May 29th, 2016 - 12:18 pm § in Misc.

Honoring the Constitution on the Anniversary of its final ratification: Keep the skeer on them!

“That billboard was put there with positive intent to ask people who come to Selma to explore and enjoy our 19th century history. Does it say anything in the Constitution where a certain faction of people cannot be offended? I’m offended by all these people walking around with their pants hangin[...]

May 22nd, 2016 - 9:45 am § in America

SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Christianity Has its Own Boy Scouts

Trail Life USA: Purity Scouts. This was no small decision. Four generations of Orr men had been Eagles, including Ron and Andrew’s older brother. Andrew had spent years working toward Scouting’s highest rank, and was just months from reaching it. After the  Boy Scouts had decided to adm[...]

May 15th, 2016 - 11:06 am § in Misc.

100th Anniversary of a Lynching,

Lynching of Jesse Washington:17 yr. old burned alive and mutilated Jesse Washington, a teenage African-American farmhand, was lynched in Waco, Texas, on May 15, 1916, in what became a well-known example of racially…[...]

May 11th, 2016 - 1:36 am § in Misc.

An Update on The Racist Bridge in South Carolina.

So, now the racist flag no longer lies over South Carolina’s capital.  Sadly, the damned flag still flies proudly 116 miles to the south in Charleston where my sister and her husband live. Then there is a bridge.  Removing that damned flag took the deaths of nine good people  during a pray[...]

April 20th, 2016 - 11:24 pm § in Misc.

Ben Carson Feels Andrew Jackson Has Been Wronged

Poor Ms. Taubman will be carrying Andrew on her back! Ben Carson is complaining that Obama did an injustice to Andrew Jackson by putting Harriet Taubman on the face of the $20 bill.  So sad.  I realize that an Oreo like Ben has trouble.  How can he expect to understand  how those of us who [&hel[...]