Yeah, But Their Heads Are Shaved Under This White Hoods
You know you are both drunk and lost in East Texas when there’s dueling racist wars. And both are going to burn somedamnthing.
The Klan and the Neo Nazis are both having a rally in East Texas today. Bud Kennedy talks about it.
The Michigan-based, neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement promises a “show of force” against illegal immigration, starting on the Rockwall courthouse steps (where city officials are choosing not to enforce permit rules), and then moving to a private ranch for a swastika-lighting.
The Texas Knights of the Ku Klux Klan, based in neighboring Hunt County, are promoting a noon rally in Nacogdoches against all legal and illegal “mass” immigration, ending with a cross burning.
I do not know what a Swastika-lighting is but I doubt it involves little twinkling lights. I could be wrong. They may have some fairy dust or something that they will toss around while humming Ode to Joy.
The two groups are not friends. That is a fact that I did not know.
The Neo-Nazis say of the Klan’s rally, as recorded by Bud Kennedy —
Schoep’s reply: “Hmph! Well, they’re not anything like us. We’re both pro-white, but our politics are very different.”
Really?
“Our policy is that religion is something for home and church,” he said. “We’re a political movement. We don’t have anything to do with religion.”
Well, there you have it: The Jesus factor.
Honey, when you have so many racists that they have to have franchises, you just might be living in Louie Gohmert country.
Thanks to RM for the heads up.
“Do not do unto others as you would not have them do unto you” is easier for me to follow than “Do unto others as you would want them to do unto you” one is easy, it’s the ten commandants, it’s vetoing negative actions, not projecting my self onto someone else. (The second one and sexual activity difficulties immediately come to mind)
1I would say these guys fail both tests, and definitely miss out on the Dali Lama’s, “My religion is kindness.”
My personal politics include charity towards all, and that brings up a struggle when I see activities like these. It’s triggering the same difficulties that I am beginning to have with all Republicans and other undereducated types. Hate always hurts the hater, so all I can do when I see things like this is pray for us all.
As a departed friend once said, “I’m going to stop calling them neo-Nazis. There’s nothing new about them.”
2As someone who once lived in MI for a good while, allow me to apologize for the knuckle-draggers who use the state as their HQ. They are just another reason why I will not go back there to live.
3Just wow. Imagine that, a novel reenactment of the war between the north and south with new players, the racist st00pid of the north versus the racist st00pid of the south, complete with costumes and a new battle cry, “your hate ain’t pure enough.”
Short version: argument between idiots and imbeciles as to is most st00pid. They picked the perfect district. Loopy Louie should be more than qualified to answer that question.
4A racist is a racist, with or without a hood.
5Let’s see the guys from Greenvile dress in white hoodies, set a symbol ablaze while raising their right arms at a 45 degree angle, mumbling something unintelligible from their hoodies.
Meanwhile the guys from Michigan (Michiganders.. I just love that) dress in black and tan, set a symbol ablaze while raising their right arms at a 45 degree angle, mumbling something unintelligent, frequently about an Austrian who morted hisownself 69+ years ago.
Yep I DO see the differences. Tea-hadists pure and simple.
6Come on down and march with the Bungler Kings in east Texas. You’ll get your racism on a white bread sesame seed bun, but everything else, you can…
“Have it your way”
7The hoods are flat; the heads are pointed.
8They may think they’re different, but except for the color they’re wearing, they look the same to everybody else.
Reminds me of a song a Wiccan wrote comparing the deadly persecution of witches, real or just accused, with the Nazi holocaust: “Do the murderers wear uniforms or sit smugly in church pews? I smell the victims burning– are they witches or are they Jews?”
9Okay, to lighten that last one a bit, the Nazis and the Klan arguing that they’re not anything like each other reminds me of the “Life of Brian” scene about the People’s Front of Judea– the only thing they hate worse than the Romans is being mistaken for the Judean People’s Front… or was it vice versa?
Video clip not entirely safe for Mama:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS-0Az7dgRY
10Oh my goodness. And I just finished reading my last good novel. Guess I’ll have to spend the evening on crossword puzzles. This whole thing is creepy.
11Wow, dumb is in different flavors now?
12Oh, holy cow, this hits home. I went to college and taught school in Hunt County. Lived in Delta, right next door and so fifty years ago. Here’s a film made in Commerce by a fellow English grad student. I contributed the music, solo electric bass noodling of various sorts.
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1788460/?ref_=fn_al_tt_4
Something I’m proud of is that while a sub in Greenville, I had class discussions whenever appropriate (Hey, this is Social Studies, isn’t it?) with my students. Often I asked them how many years until they could vote. Occasionally with older kids, like maybe fifth grade and up, we’d talk about what they DID NOT like about their town, and these children were old enough to complain about the police and Driving While Black/Brown. Very typical that this should be local policy, you know, old cotton broker town, lots of wealth apparent in the best old neighborhoods, and a sundown town as well. Commerce, as you can see in the film, worked in pretty much the same way but the brokers were 20 miles away in Greenville. Commerce was a small market-and-cotton-gin kind of place, railroads and such and a small college. The descendants of both slaves and landowners still populate Northeast Texas. My now-ex-husband is one of those, living 50 miles from his birthplace in a sharecropper cabin. In Antebellum times the family had been slaveowners with a cotton farm. Black folks with the same last name are still there.
Okay, so y’all got the basic idea of the area, right? Doesn’t this place seem logical for the white supremacist belief system to still hold on in some folks’ hearts? You bet. And for brevity’s sake, we can use the initials B.S. for that. Belief System, yeah, It’s a deeply-held opinion.
So I, as a sub, was privileged to have influenced hundreds of potential voters in Greenville, Texas, pretty much all low income and evenly divided white/ black/ Latino. They all realize that the way to change the po-po is to change the Mayor. That is going to start happening soon. I also got my kids to get the stories from their grandparents about the way things used to be and why they can never be that way again.
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