Republicans Making Racism Godly
Okay, South Carolina, you’re keeping up your end of the craziness stick.
Rep. Chris Corley, who over the summer was staunchly opposed to the state taking the Confederate flag down from public property following the Charleston massacre, sent out cards showing the South Carolina Statehouse with the flag flying next to it and his family’s name inscribed underneath.
And do you want to know what was inscribed inside? Of course you don’t but I’m gonna tell you anyway.
“May your Christmas be filled with memories of a happier time when South Carolina’s leaders possessed morals, convictions and the principles to stand for what is right,” the back of the card read. “May you have a blessed Christmas, and may you take this joyous time as an opportunity to ask for forgiveness of all your sins such as betrayal.”
Once the card became a matter of public horror, Corley pretended it was “a joke.” It should be noted, however, that he pre-filed a bill for the next legislative session asking for a referendum to put the confederate flag back on the state grounds. Maybe he did that as “a joke,” too.
If you are offended by this, it’s your own damn fault. As Corley points out —
“If somebody’s feelings are legitimately hurt about that Christmas card, I think that might speak more to their conscience than the content of the card,” Corley said.
Yeah well, that knuckle dragging meathead festering pile of hate filled slime is right about that. But not in the way I think he meant.
Thanks to Rhea for the heads up.
Chris Corley, unlike you, I have regard for the feelings of others and respect for my mother. So, to you, I say: “I’m tired of your succotash.”
1The Confederate flag? The Alamo? Ted Cruz?
How come the WingNuts keep celebrating losers?
2I don’t think they’re so much making racism godly as they are defining a version of God made in their own image–and that means racist.
3Happier times, when singing darkies filled the fields, when the house slaves brought mint juleps to us on the porch of an evening, after which the men strolled down to the slave cabins for a bit of sport.
But you have betrayed that South, sir. BETRAYED, I say. In happier times, I could have had you hoss-whipped for that.
4The really scary part of all these Republican racist pig-lovin’, yahoos is that I know people who agree with them.
5“May your Christmas be filled with memories of a happier time when South Carolina’s leaders possessed morals, convictions and the principles to stand for what is right,”
Go back in time a little more, when South Carolina’s leaders also possessed other human beings. Now that’s what you really miss Rep. Corely, isn’t it?
“Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land!”
6I’d look away too, with embarrassment.
Um, whatcha want to include a piece of history that doesn’t include a whole lot a of racist baggage on your list for, LynnN? Are we playing one-of-these-things-is-not-like-the-other? Put Fat Tony “post racism America” Scaliia in there instead! Plenty of people who aren’t wing nuts and don’t want to secede still admire the last stand at the Alamo. It’s a Texas Independence thing, not a Civil War thing. And for the record, given the mayhem the drug cartels are causing in Mexico, I’m damn glad to be an American, even if we’ve got big problems to solve! Of course, if the NRA keeps up the pressure, we may wind up with a murder rate like Mexicos, minus the kidnappings.
7Send that good ole boy some of your own Christmas cheer!
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I would say anyone that “betrays” a symbol of treason and treachery deserves to be called a patriot and should be proud of it.
9As for feelings, if some inbred, racist, ignorant, cracker piece of s#!t is offended by taking down his symbol of hate. It might be a matter of not having a conscience instead of not being able to deal with the truth.
Oh! that smug picture! Back in the day, my mother and father would have sent someone with a cheesy grin like that packing.
10@ Don A. And chances are they are packing. Now that’s scary.
11@Aggieland… The problem with the Mexican drug cartels is this, we created them. No one produces a product that no one buys. The people doing drugs in the United States have a lot to answer for when it comes to Mexico’s drug cartel problems. It is like blaming prostitutes for selling sex. They wouldn’t be selling if there wasn’t a buyer.
12Corley, grow the hell up. I know it’s not easy but you’ve got to do it sometime and deathbed evolution just doesn’t cut it.
13Does Corley “Own” that card and is he Sicilian?
14That flag doesn’t represent racism, it represents southern culture and heritage.” So say the good ole boys like Corley.
15Unfortunately, it’s exactly that racist southern culture and heritage that we’d like to correct, for once and all. It was morally WRONG! Move on, Corley, you’re on the wrong side of history and the wrong side of the baby born on Christmas.
The line to slap the $hit out of Corley formed to the left and already snakes around two good sized city blocks. What a schmuck, in the Yiddish translation.
@EPO
16As I understand the definition of “Sicilian”, he is not.
What else would one expect for a state congresscritter from the state that fired the first shots of the civil war? Of course he’s unapologetic the snacibupers are taking to heart the lessons of the tRUMP.
17Maybe someday the boy will be able to grow a real beard!
18Mr. Corley, you are a piece of sh*t. Just joking!
19After the flag came down, they must have bred the damn thing. Because here in north of South Cacalacky, you can’t go 2 blocks without seeing one attached to houses or trees. Plus trucks with the Gasden and Rebel flags flapping down the hwy.
20Aggieland Liz, this is why I included the Alamo: http://www.thealamo.org/history/the-1836-battle/slavery.html
21@LynnN
22Pretty soon slavery will be abolished in history as well.
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-et-jc-do-new-texas-textbooks-whitewash-slavery-segregation-20150707-story.html
Keep in mind that many other states use Texas’s textbook selections. Also know that the main person behind these decisions in the state department of “education” is a RWNJ that home-schooled her kids. Certainly someone who should be making public education decisions.
epo, that was kinda painful. Just sayin . . .
I think Corley ought to wear that flag as a scarf wrapped around his neck. Real tight. Real, real tight.
23Hi LynnN, I knew that slavery had some to do w Texas Independence, but was taught that it was a small issue, and was really more the doctrine of “manifest destiny” that was the driving ideology (an earlier brand of “American exceptional ism” if you ask me) behind the western expansion that included Texas War of Independence. You’ll be happy to know my spouse and I are having a shouting match all over the house about whether the Alamo has been coopted by the Tea Party – but if it has, it’s the first I’ve heard of it! AND it’s very damn recent, as well. If you are connecting the dots between the Tea Party and hating poor President Obama, I can get it- but the Alamo battle was more akin to promoting imperialism than it was to promoting the values of the Old South. The Rebel Rag and Ted Cruz’ dog whistles are certainly directly related to the Old South; I’m not accepting that the Alamo was, what ever the San Antonio Tea Party says (spouse hollering their drivel at me from across the room) and I know a fair amount about it. Full disclosure: a relative of mine died in that mess, so I have an attachment to it, but I am well aware that it is much like a discussion of Custer’s Last Stand and the Battle of the Little Bighorn, if you get my drift! For the record, I’m a Crazy Horse girl-and my Alamo relative was a free spirit himself!
24Aggieland Liz, like you I was raised to believe that the Alamo was a symbol of freedom. (Though I don’t have any personal link to it.)
But freedom fighters don’t get to own slaves. They just don’t.
I think the Texas War of Independence was complex–not all good and not all bad. The slavery part was bad; Mexico was the more enlightened combatant on that issue.
I don’t think the Alamo is as dark a symbol as the Confederate Flag, but I think it may be time to put it in perspective instead of celebrating it as an altogether noble celebration of freedom-loving Americans. As you noted, the battle at the Alamo was imperialistic. The defenders of the Alamo were fighting for land and power, including the power to own slaves. That needs to be part of the story. It needs to be understood in the context of the times, but not celebrated.
25I suppose I should go on record as having an attachment to the Alamo, but not marching around to a tinpot band waving flags about it, you know? From a military standpoint the battle was an idiotic decision, and not at all noble, mostly stupid. The best thing that came out of it (and Mission Goliad, too-it wasn’t only the Alamo!) was that a REAL general, statesman, and hero turned it to good account, rallying and encouraging his army and thus winning the war. Sam Houston was a splendid man, far more principled and dedicated than my erstwhile relation! And as I have already stated, I DO like living in Texas as part of these United States, I’d just like to correct some of the problems we face so more other people could like it too! I’m far more concerned about Antonin Scalia’s paternalistic/superior remarks and the racism we face here and now than about a 200 year old battle/war-if we can learn from it, great, otherwise? What’s the use? You are certainly correct about one thing: the Rethugs are addicted to romanticizing AND rewriting history to suit themselves; I think they have watched too many Disney movies…
26Disney didn’t usually let the mean, selfish, nasty person triumph. Still doesn’t, usually. GOP romanticizes itself with Ayn Rand, John Wayne movies, and recruiting posters.
27Bambi’s mom got killed 🙁 and if you have read the REAL Bambi, or Little Mermaid, or Snow White, then you know what I mean. Disney rewrote fairy tales to make the stories more palatable and sell movies; Rethugs rewrite history to make their platform more palatable and get votes. The real shame is that it works!
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