Confederate flag at a tea party rally? Perfect
Dick Polman
... That took real genius, to wave that noxious symbol of racial oppression at a building occupied by the nation's most prominent black family. Yeah I know, it was only one flag -- but how noteworthy it was that nobody in the crowd demanded that the guy furl it and remove it. Nope, the flag stayed front and center. And what better way to remind mainstream Americans that the Republican base has become a last-ditch refuge for angry white people? ...
As one tea party tweeter insisted (and his view was echoed by many), "The truth is, the Civil War was not about slavery," and neither was the flag. Really? Hundreds of thousands of Confederates didn't fight under that flag, and kill fellow Americans, for the cause of keeping human beings in chains? I have always thought that was the truth - especially after reading actual Confederate documents.
For instance, Article I of the Confederate constitution - codified a month before the war began - declaring that no law shall ever be enacted "impairing the right of property in negro slaves." For instance, the prewar speech by Confederate vice president Alexander Stephens, who declared that the rebel government's "foundations are laid, its corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery - subordination to the superior race - is his natural and normal condition." For instance, President Jefferson Davis' 1863 response to the Emancipation Proclamation, where Davis insists that "the day is not distant when the old Union will be restored with slavery nationally declared to be the proper condition of all of African descent" ...
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