Never Again
DeSantis and Pence pander to the worst of white Southern Republicans
I suspect Mike Pence and Ron DeSantis, two men trying to dethrone Donald Trump as the Republican Party’s standard bearer, don’t want a rerun of the 1898 Wilmington Massacre, when a mob of white supremacists violently overthrew a democratically-elected government. But boy are they OK evoking that legacy if it might help them secure the GOP’s 2024 presidential nomination.
That mob of white supremacists murdered at least 60 people in that coastal North Carolina city for the sin of having a thriving African-American community, integrated government, and an outspoken black journalist, Alex Manly, who dared write that lynching was wrong. Long before Jan. 6, 2021, when thousands of Trump supporters stormed the U.S. Capitol Building trying to overturn the results of an election they didn’t like, Confederacy-longing white supremacists had pulled off the only coup d’état in U.S. history.
Pence and DeSantis didn’t come to North Carolina to celebrate 1898. But in an effort to win votes, they harkened back to one of the country’s darkest eras, when a group of white supremacists took up arms against the U.S. in an effort to establish a new country built on the idea that black people forever be enslaved by white people – the idea that motivated white supremacists in Wilmington in 1898.
Pence and DeSantis each came to North Carolina and said they would re-honor Confederate Gen. Braxton Bragg, a man who enslaved at least 110 black people. They would turn Fort Liberty back into Fort Bragg, the name one of the most important military installations in the country had since President Woodrow Wilson decided to honor dishonorable men like Bragg.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/desantis-...110913245.html
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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Never Again
When Pence and DeSantis suggested re-honoring Bragg, participants at the North Carolina GOP convention didn’t boo them off stage, didn’t tell them to stick that racist crap where the sun doesn’t shine. Instead, they cheered. And that was the real revelation.
“If we have to have a choice between being dead and pitied, and being alive with a bad image, we’d rather be alive and have the bad image.”
— Golda Meir
Zionism is the movement for the self-determination and statehood for the Jewish people in their ancestral homeland, the land of Israel.
“If Hamas put down their weapons, there would be no more violence. If the Jews put down their weapons, there would be no Israel."
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3. Nationalism based on a dominant “superior” race and historic bloodlines.
“Tremendous infectious disease is pouring across the border.” (Trump, 2015)
“Jewish people that vote for a Democrat [show] great disloyalty.” (Trump, 2019)
“Getting critical race theory out of our schools is … a matter of national survival.” (Trump, 2022)
Fascists worry about disloyalty and sabotage from groups within the nation that don’t share the same race or bloodlines. These “others” are scapegoated, excluded or expelled, sometimes even killed. Fascists believe schools and universities must teach values that extol the dominant race, religion and bloodline.
https://www.theguardian.com/commenti...-party-fascism
ButterMilk Man
JPP Contributor
Southern being a slur in WOKE....re Southern Culture.....which has been systematically murdered.
I choose my own words like the Americans of olden times........before this dystopia arrived.
DARK AGES SUCK!
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