Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Evidence of Republican Racism
Here is an instructive posting by David Neiwert at the lefty site Crooks and Liars, which predates the racist voices in Maureen Dowd's head.
The bulk of support for David Neiwert's calling Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) a racist is that he is a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans and wanted to keep flying the Confederate Battle Flag near the capitol in Columbia, SC. That's pretty much it. Let's look closer at both those.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (no possibility of bias there) the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has been hijacked from a traditional roll of restoring Confederate graves and re-enacting battles into a neo-secessionist group. The Traditionalists are still predominant, but they are called Grannies by the hijackers, the Lunatics, who are well self named and number about 2000. Any guess as to which group inside the SCV Joe Wilson belongs? There's no mention of his specific affiliation in the Crooks and Liars report. The author perhaps hears voices in his head telling him that Joe Wilson is a Lunatic SCV member.
Then there's the flag. I have long concluded that the Confederate Battle Flag has become a racist symbol. A lot of people continue to think it is a symbol of the battle prowess of the southern troops during the Civil War, but the constant use of the flag by the KKK over the past hundred and forty years has morphed it into a symbol of racial intolerance. And who did that to the flag? Why, it was Democrats, who were the nearly exclusive members of the KKK during all the time it was an active political force, rather than the tiny, backwater, hateful detritus it is now.
So why did Joe Wilson want South Carolina to continue to fly the flag at the Confederate Soldier's monument? Was he in support of memoralizing the fighting spirit and skill of the Confederate soldiers? Or was he in support of the Democratic KKK agenda? David Neiwert at Crooks and Liars doesn't care and doesn't say. For most of the far left, merely being southern is enough to be branded a racist.
I prefer a little evidence to support such a charge.
The bulk of support for David Neiwert's calling Congressman Joe Wilson (R-SC) a racist is that he is a member of Sons of Confederate Veterans and wanted to keep flying the Confederate Battle Flag near the capitol in Columbia, SC. That's pretty much it. Let's look closer at both those.
According to the Southern Poverty Law Center (no possibility of bias there) the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has been hijacked from a traditional roll of restoring Confederate graves and re-enacting battles into a neo-secessionist group. The Traditionalists are still predominant, but they are called Grannies by the hijackers, the Lunatics, who are well self named and number about 2000. Any guess as to which group inside the SCV Joe Wilson belongs? There's no mention of his specific affiliation in the Crooks and Liars report. The author perhaps hears voices in his head telling him that Joe Wilson is a Lunatic SCV member.
Then there's the flag. I have long concluded that the Confederate Battle Flag has become a racist symbol. A lot of people continue to think it is a symbol of the battle prowess of the southern troops during the Civil War, but the constant use of the flag by the KKK over the past hundred and forty years has morphed it into a symbol of racial intolerance. And who did that to the flag? Why, it was Democrats, who were the nearly exclusive members of the KKK during all the time it was an active political force, rather than the tiny, backwater, hateful detritus it is now.
So why did Joe Wilson want South Carolina to continue to fly the flag at the Confederate Soldier's monument? Was he in support of memoralizing the fighting spirit and skill of the Confederate soldiers? Or was he in support of the Democratic KKK agenda? David Neiwert at Crooks and Liars doesn't care and doesn't say. For most of the far left, merely being southern is enough to be branded a racist.
I prefer a little evidence to support such a charge.
Labels: Representative Joe Wilson; Lefty Charges of Racism
