I love the kid who comes to guys defense and tell the educated young black guy that the south freed the slaves first…before the North.
This guy is what happens when you fall asleep in history class!
My not-so-good friend, Clint Lacy’s brother Rich, has been hard at work letting his true racism shine through on one of his many blogs…this time on his No Mo Reparations blog. Here is what he had to say after I commented on Clint’s brother’s childish letter to a SCV member who disagreed with the tactics of the SCV…
Now I’m calling you one for your cowardice!
I called you and you refused to answer your phone; after you insulted me on you blog. You had a chance to back up that big mouth of yours and you didn’t; so let it go and be a man about it, instead of a spineless victim!
I know what’s got you SUV jerks upset; the new breed of Southerner’s in the SCV. You know that your reign of terror is over with, within the SCV ranks. When true Southerners assume leadership of the SCV, you SUV members will be kicked out of the organization.
SO DO YOURSELVES A FAVOR AND LEAVE NOW; YOU ARE NOT WELCOME WITHIN OUR RANKS!
If we had real leadership, this would already have been done. However, McMichael is a granny; so what can you expect?
Yep, that is right, Clint Lacy called my house…well actually the house of my ex-wife and children at midnight to harass me. Problem for old Clint is that I don’t live there anymore. I am sure this post will also result in pointless calls to my ex, so here is my cell number 1-309-530-3307…give me a call if you dare. Just leave my children out of it.
Hat Tip to All Other Persons blog…
This is a great post and article on how some neo-confederates have distorted a picture of Black Union Soldiers with their white officer into a photo of “black confederates”.
Here we have the original photo…
A contemporary recruitment poster…
Here is the fake 1st Louisiana Native Guard photo…
And finally, the website that sells (or sold the photo…appears not to be for sale any longer) the photo…The Great War of the Confederacy’s Rebel Store.
If you want to read about how this photo and its fake were discovered head on over to Retouching History for the complete scoop.
Are we really supposed to take these guys seriously…don’t answer…it’s a rhetorical question. But really, how do they plan to secede with this clown at the forefront of the SCLoS? And for the other nutball…the little southern cultural get-to-gether sounds more like a real hoot of a good time….not!
Beck needs to go back and take American History all over again.
Hey Richard, maybe Glenn was taught too much American Exceptionalims in school!
A great deal has been written in the day following the “You Lie” outburst directed towards President Obama by South Carolina Rep. Addison Graves “Joe” Wilson (seen above in a lovely apology/fundraising video). Over at Civil War Memory, Kevin Levin rightly makes the following comment:
Others have tried to situate Wilson into a broader historical narrative that includes the likes of John Calhoun, Preston Brooks, and South Carolina’s own place in the story of secession, Civil War, and Massive Resistance. These narrative memes are so predictable, but ultimately tell us next to nothing about what motivated Joe Wilson’s outburst. Oh…I get it. Because Calhoun, Brooks, and Thurmond are so easily lumped together in some vague reactionary category we might as well throw good old Wilson in there.
But we know that nothing happens in a vacuum there is much more to good olde Joe Wilson than meets the eye. Over at Alternet.org there is an article about 14 things we should know about Joe, which include the following: He is a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, served as an aide to Segregationist Presidential candidate and Senator Strom Thurmond and…
When Thurmond’s bi-racial daughter, fathered out of wedlock with an African-American teenage girl, came forward in 2003 — after Thurmond’s death — Wilson castigated Thurmond’s daughter, saying he did not believe her story. Essie Mae Washington-Williams was conceived of a union Thurmond had with his family’s 16-year-old maid. Thurmond was 22 at the time. “It’s a smear on the image that [Thurmond] has as a person of high integrity who has been so loyal to the people of South Carolina,” Wilson said, according to TPM. Wilson later apologized to Washington-Williams.
Wilosn is also well known in South Carolina for being one of seven state senators who voted against taking down the confederate flag from the statehouse dome back in 2000.
Republican Steve King of Iowa says: “He is an officer and a gentleman and everyone who knows him knows that…being a son of the South puts you in a different position when it comes to the Confederate flag. It means something entirely different to the people who have ancestors who fought in the Civil War on the south side of the Mason-Dixon line. So I think Maureen Dowd is trying to whip this up and I also know she’s trying to put race into it. I didn’t know what race she was talking about when I first read her line on that.” Source
So, with friends like this who apparently don’t care how others in the south or in other parts of the country feel about the confederate flag, I am sure Joe Wilson will continue to raise more and more money for his 2010 campaign. But it is the parts that make up the whole and speak volumes to us about who Joe Wilson really is. And contrary to what Kevin Levin says we should lump Wilson in with others like Calhoun, Brooks and Thurmond. Wilson’s “racism” is not the racism that we are used to seeing, the blatant KKK, Nazi-Skinhead racism of the 1980’s or the anti-civil rights racism of the 1960’s. This new breed of racism is an altogether new beast.
This new breed of racism is much more mainstream and much harder to detect. It is not, nor has it really ever been, only in the south but it has much origins in common with the south. It is deeply rooted in the “honoring” of the old confederacy and the old south. The racism is hidden from plain site and even infiltrates groups without their knowing. The SCV is the most obvious example of this new type of racism. Not everyone in the SCV or who flies the confederate flag is a racist, but racism has found a convenient hiding place. You know the old addage…where better to hide a tree than in a forest.
WASHINGTON- The normally nonchalant Barack Obama looked nonplussed, as Nancy Pelosi glowered behind. Surrounded by middle-aged white guys — a sepia snapshot of the days when such pols ran Washington like their own men’s club — Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at a president who didn’t. But, fair or not, what I heard was an unspoken word in the air: You lie, boy!
The outburst was unexpected from a milquetoast Republican backbencher from South Carolina who had attracted little media attention. Now it has made him an overnight right-wing hero, inspiring “You lie!” bumper stickers and T-shirts. The congressman, we learned, belonged to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, led a 2000 campaign to keep the Confederate flag waving above South Carolina’s state Capitol and denounced as a “smear” the true claim of a black woman that she was the daughter of Strom Thurmond, the ’48 segregationist candidate for president.
Wilson clearly did not like being lectured and even rebuked by the brainy black president presiding over the majestic chamber. I’ve been loath to admit that the shrieking lunacy of the summer — the frantic efforts to paint our first black president as the Other, a foreigner, socialist, fascist, Marxist, racist, Commie, Nazi; a cad who would snuff old people; a snake who would indoctrinate kids — had much to do with race. I tended to agree with some Obama advisers that Democratic presidents typically have provoked a frothing response from paranoids — from Father Coughlin against F.D.R. to Joe McCarthy against Truman to the John Birchers against J.F.K. and the vast right-wing conspiracy against Bill Clinton.
But Wilson’s shocking disrespect for the office of the president — no Democrat ever shouted “liar” at W. when he was hawking a fake case for war in Iraq — convinced me: Some people just can’t believe a black man is president and will never accept it. “A lot of these outbursts have to do with delegitimizing him as a president,” said Congressman Jim Clyburn, a senior member of the South Carolina delegation. Clyburn, the man who called out Bill Clinton on his racially tinged attacks on Obama in the primary, pushed Pelosi to pursue a formal resolution chastising Wilson. “In South Carolina politics, I learned that the olive branch works very seldom,” he said. “You have to come at these things from a position of strength. My father used to say, ‘Son, always remember that silence gives consent.’ ”
Barry Obama of the post-’60s Hawaiian ’hood did not live through the major racial struggles in American history. Maybe he had a problem relating to his white basketball coach or catching a cab in New York, but he never got beaten up for being black. Now he’s at the center of a period of racial turbulence sparked by his ascension. Even if he and the coterie of white male advisers around him don’t choose to openly acknowledge it, this president is the ultimate civil rights figure — a black man whose legitimacy is constantly challenged by a loco fringe.
For two centuries, the South has feared a takeover by blacks or the feds. In Obama, they have both. The state that fired the first shot of the Civil War has now given us this: Senator Jim DeMint exhorted conservatives to “break” the president by upending his health care plan. Rusty DePass, a G.O.P. activist, said that a gorilla that escaped from a zoo was “just one of Michelle’s ancestors.” Lovelorn Mark Sanford tried to refuse the president’s stimulus money. And now Joe Wilson. “A good many people in South Carolina really reject the notion that we’re part of the union,” said Don Fowler, the former Democratic Party chief who teaches politics at the University of South Carolina. He observed that when slavery was destroyed by outside forces and segregation was undone by civil rights leaders and Congress, it bred xenophobia.
“We have a lot of people who really think that the world’s against us,” Fowler said, “so when things don’t happen the way we like them to, we blame outsiders.” He said a state legislator not long ago tried to pass a bill to nullify any federal legislation with which South Carolinians didn’t agree. Shades of John C. Calhoun!
It may be President Obama’s very air of elegance and erudition that raises hackles in some. “My father used to say to me, ‘Boy, don’t get above your raising,’ ” Fowler said. “Some people are prejudiced anyway, and then they look at his education and mannerisms and get more angry at him.” Clyburn had a warning for Obama advisers who want to forgive Wilson, ignore the ignorant outbursts and move on: “They’re going to have to develop ways in this White House to deal with things and not let them fester out there. Otherwise, they’ll see numbers moving in the wrong direction.”
(CNN) – Less than a day after Rep. Joe Wilson formally apologized to President Obama over his “you lie” outburst, a campaign aide confirms that the South Carolina Republican has raised “more than $200,000″ in the wake of the now-infamous moment.
News of that cash haul comes after Wilson directly asked in a Web video for campaign cash to fend off attacks from political opponents and said he’s standing by his opposition to Democratic efforts at health care reform.
“On these issues, I will not be muzzled, I will speak up and speak loudly against this risky plan,” Wilson said in a YouTube video released Thursday evening. “The supporters of the government takeover of health care and the liberals who want to give health care to illegals are using my opposition as an excuse to distract from the critical questions being raised about this poorly conceived plan.”
The congressman disbursed the video via Twitter and asked his followers to “please watch and pass on.”
“[Democrats] want to silence anyone who speaks out against it,” Wilson also says in the video. “They made it clear they want to defeat me and pass the plan. I need your help now. … Contribute to my effort to defeat the proponents of government-run health care.”
Wilson also sent a fundraising appeal via e-mail, saying he is confident that “my voice is serving as the voice for Americans across the country who are tired of irresponsible government programs that have only worsened our situation.”
The appeal for cash came as Wilson’s Democratic opponent in next year’s congressional race, Rob Miller, reported raking in $750,000 as a result of the outburst during President Obama’s address to a joint session of Congress.
Miller ran against Wilson last year, losing by 8 percentage points. It was Wilson’s smallest margin of victory in his five elections for Congress.
In an e-mail to supporters Thursday night, Miller said he is aiming to top over $1 million in the next 24 hours, a total that dwarfs the $67,000 he has took in during the entire first half of the year.
Alice Gallman has fought for what she believes her whole life. This 87- year- old Columbia woman’s great uncle, a former slave and Confederate soldier, John Alex Sarter, had that same fighting spirit.
Gallman contacted Lt. Commander for S.C.’s Sons of Confederate Veterans and also the founder of radiofreedixie.com Don Gordon and asked him to investigate her great uncle’s history. Gordon found Sarter fought for the Confederacy first as a slave and later as a free man. His owner, William Sarter was appointed Captain of S.C.’s 18th Infantry Regiment, Company B on August of 1862. Sarter died the following September from his war wounds. But Alex Sarter chose to enlist after William died.
Sarter was later captured by Union soldiers and forced to help dig a tunnel the army filled with explosives. The Union army used the explosion to divide Confederate forces during the Battle of the Crater at Petersburg, Virginia. The SCV gave an account of the battle in a DVD Gordon presented to Gallman on September 2, 2009. The footage chronicled a memorial service by the SCV at Sarter’s gravesite.
But Gallman remembers Sarter as her wise, old uncle. When she was a girl growing up in Union, the adults would sit around the fire in the winter and have what they called “fireside chats.” Gallman remembers sneaking up behind Sarter and eavesdropping on the adults’ conversations. She said she learned a lot from the older generations.
Gallman’s grandparents were sharecroppers. Gallman was her mother’s first bi- racial child. Her father was Jewish. She said her status made growing up difficult. “There were so many days I didn’t have a bite of bread,” she said. But humble up bringing didn’t stop Gallman from giving her time, energy, and skills to other people who needed help.
Gallman taught the poor to can vegetables, so they would have foodstuffs when times were lean. And when she was a teenager she taught people how to construct mattresses made of cotton instead of straw.
Gallman has fought for the poor and she was involved in helping African- American teachers receive adequate books instead of the damaged hand- me- downs used by white children.
Today, Gallman shares her stories and wisdom with younger generations. Gallman worked hard to send her daughter to Heathwood Hall Episcopal School. Her daughter later attended Yale University and went into the law profession. And her son worked at the Pentagon.
Alice Gallman, like her uncle, has been a fighter.
I did a quick search for William Sarter and then John Alex Sarter in the 18th South Carolina Infantry and only found William in the ranks. Not one mention of John Alex anywhere which seems to be par for the course when it comes to black confederates/confederate slaves. Maybe someone else how reads this post and has better access to SC archival material can do a search with more luck then I. But my guess is…I doubt it. This is more likely another tale similar to the one you can find over at Cenantua’s Blog.
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