In the discussion thread: They are getting close to silencing 1StrongBlackMan [View all]
Response to Number23 (Reply #356)
Wed Jul 8, 2015, 10:30 PM
Starry Messenger (32,330 posts)
358. What a great picture, ha!
A person has to be sailing over life to think that civil rights were "just" some warm up act, or side task, or not central. Look at South Carolina--debating over that Confederate flag. We might just end the Civil War, finally, after 150 years.
I love this Ta-Nehisi Coates article, I posted it a couple of places on DU I think: http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2015/06/what-this-cruel-war-was-over/396482/ In praising the Klan’s terrorism, Confederate veterans and their descendants displayed a remarkable consistency. White domination was the point. Slavery failed. Domination prevailed nonetheless. This was the basic argument of Florida Democratic Senator Duncan Fletcher. “The Cause Was Not Entirely Lost,” he argued in a 1931 speech before the United Daughters of the Confederacy: The South fought to preserve race integrity. Did we lose that? We fought to maintain free white dominion. Did we lose that? The States are in control of the people. Local self-government, democratic government, obtains. That was not lost. The rights of the sovereign States, under the Constitution, are recognized. We did not lose that. I submit that what is called “The Lost Cause” was not so much “lost” as is sometimes supposed. Indeed it was not. For a century after the Civil War, White Supremacy ruled the South. Toward the end of that century, as activists began to effectively challenge white supremacy, its upholders reached for a familiar symbol. {the CSA flag} MLK was incredibly brave to face down people who were (are) perfectly happy to let Black people know that they preferred the slave system and Jim Crow, thank you very much. How many Black churches burned down last month in the wake of the Charleston 9? Racist terror is still very much alive in this country--these events aren't aberrations. Treating them as distractions from the main event of economic reform, or "just" some holdover from the bad old days that can be fixed overnight is divorced from reality. |
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