TagsTagsLast month we reported that the Texas Department of Motor Vehicles was actually considering the approval of an objectively pro-slavery license plate, prominently featuring the Confederate flag. Today we're glad to announce that the Texas DMV board voted unanimously to reject the design, after two hours of public testimony in ...
Texas, Neo-Confederate, Civil War, Racism, Slavery, Sons of Confederate Veterans
As we noted Monday, the NAACP has called for Mississippi Governor Haley Barbour to denounce an outrageous proposal to commemorate General Nathan Bedford Forrest, the first Grand Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, with a state license plate. Yesterday Barbour refused to say anything negative about a license plate dedicated to ...
Haley Barbour, White Supremacists, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Ku Klux Klan, Racism, Neo-Confederates
Since the election of Barack Obama, the neo-Confederate crowd has been more active than ever, pushing hard to promote a revisionist version of US history that sweeps slavery under the rug and lionizes Southern slavemasters. But the latest initiative from these throwbacks is almost unbelievable: the Sons of Confederate Veterans ...
Haley Barbour, White Supremacists, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Ku Klux Klan, Racism, Neo-Confederates
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Jon Stewart, Comedy, Satire, Civil War, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Revisionism, Slavery
As the 150th anniversary of the Civil War rolls around, Southern neo-Confederate groups are pushing harder than ever to rewrite American history, making it all about an unjust invasion and states' rights -- and sweeping that bothersome slavery stuff under the rug. ... As the 150th anniversary of the four-year ...
Civil War, Slavery, Neo-Confederates, Racism, Sons of Confederate Veterans, League of the South
This midterm election will go down in history as the Year the Wingnuts Came Out of the Woodwork and Took Office. Case in point: Republican Loy Mauch, newly elected state representative from Arkansas House District 26, an overt neo-Confederate who once hosted a conference with a keynote address titled, "Homage ...
Arkansas, Right Wing, Neo-Confederate, Sons of Confederate Veterans, League of the South, Racism, Theocracy, Bad Craziness
It's bad enough that creationists are constantly trying to get their nonsense published in school textbooks; but now we have neo-Confederates doing it too: Virginia 4th-grade textbook criticized over claims on black Confederate soldiers. And once again, behind this latest revisionist outrage we find the sleazy white supremacist hate group that ...
Virginia, Republican Party, Extremism, Neo-Confederate, Sons of Confederate Veterans, White Supremacists
The neo-Confederate wackos who call themselves the "Sons of Confederate Veterans" claim that they've bought a series of disgusting advertisements on the History Channel portraying the Confederacy as the good guys: Georgia Division - Sesquincentennial Celebration Video 1. Here's one of these sick ads: [Video] It seems hard to believe that the History ...
Neo-Confederate, Sons of Confederate Veterans, Revisionism, Civil War, Hate Speech, History Channel
Virginia Governor Bob McDonnell is changing the name of "Confederate History Month" to "Civil War in Virginia" month, after his pandering to neo-Confederate extremists was revealed: Va. governor: 'Confederate' month no more. NORFOLK - Virginia Gov. Robert F. McDonnell announced Friday that he will declare next April "Civil War in ...
Virginia, Republican Party, Extremism, Neo-Confederate, Bob McDonnell, Confederate History Month, Sons of Confederate Veterans
In neo-Confederate news, the SPLC’s Hatewatch blog takes a look at the Sam Davis Youth Camps sponsored by the Sons of Confederate Veterans, where Southern kids are taught that the Civil War had nothing to do with slavery, and Abraham Lincoln was a racist war criminal. The camps are heavily ...
Robert Stacy McCain, White supremacism, Racism, Neo-Nazis, Right Wing, Hate Speech, Neo-Confederate, Sons of Confederate Veterans