re: #122 BeachDem

Heritage of Hate: Dylann Roof, White Supremacy and the Truth About the Confederacy

…they insist that the flag and more broadly the Confederacy itself was not about racism. Indeed, they insist the flag is about “heritage, not hate.” It’s an old canard and one that we who are southerners have heard all of our lives: The Confederacy was about state’s rights, they insist, or tariffs, or taxes, or an intrusive “central government.” That anyone could still believe such things is testament to the broken and utterly pathetic state of American education.

…But now, and let us be clear on this point: it is time for the rest of us to finish that war, once and for all. It is time to bury the Confederacy and everything for which it stood; to destroy for all time the white supremacist culture that Dylann Roof and his compatriots so cherish; and this time, completely and without pardon.

timwise.org

Chapter and verse of all the secession declarations. It’s long, but everything is there for anyone who wants to quote particular passages.

I’ve had some fights recently over what is racist and what isn’t, but this morning, after Charleston, my mom decided that it’s time to get rid of the Confederate flag. “I used to think it was about heritage, but it’s not.” Don’t know if something was said at her church or not, and I don’t care, but she’s changed on this.