This is what we're up against...

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

The following is an actual letter published in my local newspaper in the "Letters to the Editor" section. It is completely unaltered. I've only withheld the name of the author.


We hear the expression KKK today when someone wants to relate to something terrible. Yet, the KKK, like many other good intentioned organizations have lost their original purpose through time or pretended followers. The original Klu Klux Klan was headed by a Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest, and was founded in 1865. The first founders had strict rules for membership, men of chivalry, patriotic, respect for the Constitution and law. They sought to protect all races of men from the plunder, tyranny, voter fraud and oppression suffered during the 12 years of Southern Reconstruction, which ended in 1877.
We must understand, at this time, the South was living under a black dominated society, enforced sternly, by federal authorities, “The Union League” and “Carpet Bagger government” appealing for black Republican votes.
The original KKK arose in opposition to these groups, especially the Union League, which at times beat blacks into submission, pushing their goal for one political party in the nation. The KKK helped rout out these groups and end Reconstruction. And, when Reconstruction ended, and the last of the Union troops went North, the freed blacks had no choice but to remain in the South to face the ones they had taken up arms against. Thus, laws had to be passed to separate the races, because of the racism created by the Carpet Bagger government during Reconstruction.

This is the type of reactionary misinformation we are up against. This person just gave us a completely false narrative of a world that never happened, informed by the large amount of revisionist history that has infected this country. People are even agreeing with him.

This neo-confederate bullshit is on the rise here in the South, and we need to be ready to confront it head-on.

[BIXX]

What the FUCK did I just read? Holy shit, this makes my blood boil.

[Popular Front of Judea]

Damn that puts the revisionism of 'Mississippi Burning' to shame. I have to wonder who is pushing that out there. I doubt Dwight came up with that all on his lonesome.

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Damn that puts the revisionism of 'Mississippi Burning' to shame. I have to wonder who is pushing that out there. I doubt Dwight came up with that all on his lonesome.

Well, if you go to a Barnes & Noble here in America, and go to the civil war section, you'll find that its become saturated with neo-confederate, anti-Lincoln bullshit (like this little nugget right here (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lincolns-marxists-al-benson-jr/1100165332?ean=9781589809055) ,or this thing here (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/red-republicans-and-lincolns-marxists-walter-d-kennedy/1009157707?ean=9780595446988)) There's also such magazines like Southern Partisan and organizations like The League of the South and The Sons of Confederate Veterans (which up until a few years ago was a strictly civil war-focused historical society).

[Popular Front of Judea]

There are ample historical records that disprove the myths espoused by the neo-Confederates, who insist the Civil War was not about slavery but states’ rights and the protection of traditional Christianity. But these records are useless in puncturing their self-delusion, just as documentary evidence does nothing to blunt the self-delusion of Holocaust deniers. Those who retreat into fantasy cannot be engaged in rational discussion, for fantasy is all that is left of their tattered self-esteem. When their myths are attacked as untrue it triggers not a discussion of facts and evidence but a ferocious emotional backlash. The challenge of the myth threatens what is left of hope. And as the economy unravels, as the future looks bleaker and bleaker, this terrifying myth gains potency.

The Confederacy Making a Comeback in the South? KKK Grand Wizard Glorified, Civil Rights Heroes Ignored (Chris Hedges) (http://www.alternet.org/print/confederacy-making-comeback-south-kkk-grand-wizard-glorified-civil-rights-heroes-ignored)


Well, if you go to a Barnes & Noble here in America, and go to the civil war section, you'll find that its become saturated with neo-confederate, anti-Lincoln bullshit (like this little nugget right here (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/lincolns-marxists-al-benson-jr/1100165332?ean=9781589809055) ,or this thing here (http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/red-republicans-and-lincolns-marxists-walter-d-kennedy/1009157707?ean=9780595446988)) There's also such magazines like Southern Partisan and organizations like The League of the South and The Sons of Confederate Veterans (which up until a few years ago was a strictly civil war-focused historical society).

[Brandon's Impotent Rage]

Now, here's another wonderful chestnut from my local paper that was published today. Again, the name has been withheld.

*(Just a bit of side info for those outside the U.S., there was recently a string of incidents in DC involving the vandalism of various national monuments, specifically the Lincoln Memorial)


Recently, vandals splashed paint on the Lincoln statue prompting it’s temporary closure. This is as wrong as it gets among a civilized people.
We are not yet some Third World country where the damage of public property is all but sanctioned. However, this wanton defacement pales in comparison to what is repeatedly done to Confederate monuments and grave sites.
Our public education system teaches that Lincoln may have been the greatest president, ever. This indoctrination worked on me until I learned to read, then the deception was over.
I learned that since the 16th president refused to recognize the Confederacy that the war he waged on his own country was both unholy and unconstitutional.
He illegally blockaded Southern ports, suspended writs of habeas corpus, increased the army with no act of Congress, interfered with the freedom of the press and arbitrarily imprisoned private citizens.
Thus, Lincoln promoted a doctrine utterly subversive to the Constitution with actions that could not be lawfully exercised by the government, regardless of the emergency.
The Union became a centralized regime without any effective limitation upon its powers, as Lincoln rejected the notion of social equality of the races. Lincoln believed African Americans could not be assimilated into white society.
He resisted their Union army enlistments, opposed their habitation in the western territories and held to the view that they should be resettled abroad. Yes, I read a lot of facts about this president that my teachers omitted and when I learned to write better, I told others.

This guy has been reading a little too much Thomas DiLorenzo.