tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post2241587914988332774..comments2023-10-22T02:35:41.216-07:00Comments on Citizen K.: The Race Is On And It Looks Like HeartacheUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-43904199506863724642010-04-20T09:32:16.758-07:002010-04-20T09:32:16.758-07:00"Their own version of the new racial order.&q..."Their own version of the new racial order." Yes, their own version, so much at odds with the writer's version of the racial order, his old version being identical to his new version.Barry Knisterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03191575373788669991noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-52921409093546984552010-04-19T22:58:01.246-07:002010-04-19T22:58:01.246-07:00NM: Isn't that a great story? Read about the d...<b>NM:</b> Isn't that a great story? Read about the discovery of <i>The Passion of Joan of Arc</i> <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_Joan_of_Arc" rel="nofollow">here</a>. Steve Erickson wrote a fine fictional account of this in his fine novel <i><a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zeroville" rel="nofollow">Zeroville</a></i>.<br /><br /><b>tnlib:</b> I'm not prejudiced, but...<br /><br /><b>ZY:</b> So <i>that's</i> what the new racial order was all about! Imagine the nerve of not wanting to be lynched. Some people.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-38290715970503246302010-04-19T20:00:33.070-07:002010-04-19T20:00:33.070-07:00You mean The War of Northern Aggression, right? Th...You mean The War of Northern Aggression, right? The extreme right has its PC rules, too. In addition to the rule that mentioning that a white guy called a black man a n***** is race baiting there's the rule about what we call the Civil War. Used to be War Between the States was all right. Maybe because that is exactly a description of a civil war that's non-PC now. <br /><br />I imagine there was a certain amount of what you could call hate on the part of civil rights activists. Not everyone could be MLK, after all. Hate for the lynchings, hate for Jim Crow, hate for being forced to step into the street to make room on the sidewalk for any white that passed by and pretend to like it. There might have been some hate, but it would have been well justified.Patriciahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01044265862232128796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-83637353350107742802010-04-19T16:39:38.681-07:002010-04-19T16:39:38.681-07:00True Story:
Looking out my cousin's back wind...True Story:<br /><br />Looking out my cousin's back window at about 4:00 pm @ 110 degrees.<br /><br />My Cousin: "That damn Lestah. He's supposed ta be heah afore sunup. Why, you can see it a cummin' up over the hill thar afore he even sets foot on the fahm. Why, I giv 'em 15 minutes at noon to et and rest up sum afore goin' back to plowin'. Damn, he's tha laziest no good niggah I ever did see. Now, don't go takin' that as racism - I don't have a racist bone in my body.<br /><br />Well, I bettah be gettin' on. The Missus wants to get to the church a little early tonite. Sum visitin' preacher going to talk to us about brotherly love. Hmph. Sounds suspect to me."<br />South Georgia, Summer - 2008Leslie Parsleyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13743778482517634823noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-18817195892304108702010-04-19T15:23:10.349-07:002010-04-19T15:23:10.349-07:00How exciting to find a rare silent film in your at...How exciting to find a rare silent film in your attic. If I had an attic I'd be up there now searching for treasures toonursemyrahttp://nursemyra.wordpress.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-79100483865550897272010-04-19T13:40:30.350-07:002010-04-19T13:40:30.350-07:00Ren: One reason, not the only reason, for the fail...<b>Ren:</b> One reason, not the only reason, for the failure of Reconstruction was that as the war receded in the North's rear view mirror, it became more interested in industrialism and finance than in consolidating its victory. <br /><br />The gathering labor movement may even have caused northern industrialists to sympathize with a legal system that stripped workers of basic rights. (For example, freed men in the post-Reconstruction South, were not allowed to quit their jobs.)K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-60560070268978372302010-04-19T12:31:08.052-07:002010-04-19T12:31:08.052-07:00The Civil War was the second American revolution. ...The Civil War was the second American revolution. It was the victory of then progressive northern industrialism, over the feudal slave economy. Foxessa could point out that is not a perfect statement, but more true than not.<br /><br />Race exclusive slavery came with capitalism. Even in the US, before the Bacon Rebellion around 1680, slavery was based on being indentured, not race.<br /><br />If you support the Confederacy in any manner, you're for slavery. Nothing else matters.Frank Partisanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03536211653082893030noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-69131797715103999932010-04-19T08:47:44.074-07:002010-04-19T08:47:44.074-07:00LF: Thanks! I to hearing from him or her!
Roy: Ag...<b>LF:</b> Thanks! I to hearing from him or her!<br /><br /><b>Roy:</b> Agreed. I don't know how a group can claim primacy for states' rights and then turn around and say they aren't being racist.<br /><br /><b>Foxessa:</b> Yes they did recover from it it's all in the past it wasn't that bad anyway look at everything we've done for them if they didn't recover from it it's their own fault and look at everything we've done for them. This attitude began during Reconstruction, when the prevailing Northern attitude became "if they won't defend themselves, maybe they don't deserve freedom."<br /><br /><b>S:</b> I know what you mean. Half the time, I think these people actually mean it when they say they don't care about race. Which makes it all the more pathetic: In this country, it's <i>always</i> about race, whether you know it or not.K.https://www.blogger.com/profile/10222703055177237209noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-53047585854841953422010-04-19T08:25:55.918-07:002010-04-19T08:25:55.918-07:00Oh, don't even get me started on the subject o...Oh, don't even get me started on the subject or I'll be frothing at the mouth in no time! Needless to say I agree totally with you and what your other commenters have written. Derangement all around indeed!!! Have a great week, K!<br /><br />SylviaSylvia Khttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05484577678585907669noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-34132020524540877682010-04-19T07:11:34.721-07:002010-04-19T07:11:34.721-07:00Centuries of justification of slavery as culture a...Centuries of justification of slavery as culture and as economic engine, both as slave labor and human beings as sale product turned many of the former confederacy deranged. Their descendants never recovered from it.<br /><br />Among this sort it is religious dogma that 'the colored' are inferior, perhaps not human beings at all, for that matter, and this inferiority is decreed by god.<br /><br />Derangement all around.<br /><br />Love, C.Foxessahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06754083123669916994noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-86917174742689754162010-04-19T06:13:45.117-07:002010-04-19T06:13:45.117-07:00The rift in our national unity caused by the Confe...The rift in our national unity caused by the Confederacy never healed. For a while it went underground, but in the last 20 years it's been opening up again, and now the chasm gapes. These people still honestly believe that their ancestors did nothing wrong, and were in fact heroes on the scale of the national Founding Fathers. That's not myopia; that's willful blindness.Royhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01648670975466222140noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5077075252525438159.post-58539009322199722692010-04-19T05:52:37.049-07:002010-04-19T05:52:37.049-07:00I'm forwarding your blog link to a Democratic ...I'm forwarding your blog link to a Democratic friend who will enjoy your take on our political world.Cheryl Catohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13294358830518520566noreply@blogger.com