Memo to Neo-Confederates: Kiss My White, Southern Ass

Originally posted at Too Sense:

I am a Southern White Male. Granted, the whole "white" thing is a bullshit notion in and of itself, but that's a different fight for a different day.

I'm Southern. My entire family is Southern, going back to the first poor bastard unlucky enough to get kicked off of a boat in South Carolina, through the various ancestors who made their way across Georgia (keep moving, damn it), Alabama (farther, please), Arkansas (anywhere but here!) and eventually Louisiana (still fucked up, but at least we have New Orleans). Half of my mother's people still live in south Alabama. You can't really look at my Cajun or Spanish relatives in North-South terms, but needless to say the Cajuns in the family have been in the South since the Brits exiled them from Nova Scotia.

This ain't comin' from a Yankee, folks.

I have a message for the Neo-Confederates out there: Y'all can all kiss my white, Southern ass. You don't speak for Southerners as a whole, you don't speak for Southern white men, and you don't speak for me. The only folks you speak for are knuckle-draggin', no-history-readin', wannabe-slave-ownin' losers.

Haystack over at Red Bait, er, Red State writes the following:

The Confederate flag might be an outstanding mechanism for folks to look towards in reminding the younger generations of a time and place in American history where dumb redneck hicks from the South considered themselves God-like, or above the natural laws of things, but what you never hear from these Democrat demagogues is what the Confederacy brought to America that has LONG since been lost in the short list of things that matter when it comes to being an American.

Like, say...slavery...and the hypocritical ability to talk about "all men are created equal" while holding other men in permanent bondage...and the creation of a poisonous racial regime that continues to pollute our culture...and the intentional practice of destroying families (selling off slave family members to different plantations), destroying culture (forbidding the use of any African languages, forbidding anyone from educating slaves), and destroying lives (beating, torturing and/or murdering uncooperative or escaped slaves)...and the perversion of the Christian faith ("cursed be Canaan" my ass)...just for starters.

Yeah, thanks for that...motherfuckers.

Our man Haystack continues:

As a down-line Confederate, I know of a reverence for God, a deep-rooted respect for my elders, a conviction that a Government is only as good as the independent and strong-willed people who fight FOR her, and a belief that the Federal Government is BEST that governs States the LEAST - this being emblematic of a Republic that was founded with the intention of ensuring as much for her citizens.

Meaning, of course, her white citizens. As Confederate Vice-President Alexander Stephens said: "(Jefferson's) ideas . . . were fundamentally wrong. They rested upon the assumption of the equality of races. This was an error. ... Our new government is founded upon exactly the opposite idea; its 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." Of all of the skull-fuckingly-stupid arguments that the Neo-Confederates make, the notion that the South seceded over anything other than slavery is the worst.

Back to Haystack:

What I ALSO know, is that anyone that believes such things today are considered racist, or worse. Look, I am derived from Confederates who often-times found themselves indentured servants, so it's not like there's any anti black mentality in my blood-we had as much to lose as anyone else...but we DID appreciate the meaning and value of fighting for what what we believed in-black, white, green, yellow or anything in between...the difference here is
that the Democrats want you to believe any who might question such platitudes now must therefore be deemed rednecks. My ancestors, and yours, are rolling in their graves.

Yeah, because we all know that indentured servitude, with its limited time period and its lack of racial stigma, was entirely the same thing as slavery. And we all know that having been poor and white in the Confederacy means that you just loved black people. Why, those black codes that eviscerated the rights of even free blacks, they had nothing to do with preserving some small sliver of superior status for the Poor White Trash.

The Confederate flag might have flown over some dark days of this republic, but that's not to suggest that the ideals of the Confederacy, beyond the darkness of slavery, should be lost in the translation.

There were no ideals of the Confederacy other than slavery. Period.

That flag flew to represent an America that stood up for a people and a belief that a Federal Government had no place in deciding the business of the States' right to
determine their futures. Millions of dead later, the ideals are unchanged - do
with that what you will.

The states' rights to do....what? Oh, I know! Own slaves! And, yes, for a lot of people, the ideals that coincide with slave ownership are very much alive and well.

As a Southern White Male, I have one further message for my fellow Southerners: The South was wrong. The South started the war, the South lost the war, the South deserved to lose the war. The Lost Cause is dead and gone, so get the fuck over it already.

Glad we could clear that up.

PS: I notice that over at Too Sense a fellow by the name of "USMCRebel" made the following comment regarding this post:

You are an absolute moron and a disgrace to your country!

Why, thank you sir! Coming from someone patently stupid enough to try to combine the United States Marine Corps with the Rebels, that's a real compliment. Just which color do you think the USMC would have been wearing during your beloved War of Northern Aggression? BTW, I made that post back on February 19, and your comment was added on May 13. Took you that long to read the post, eh?