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    heynckelpottJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 11:29pm

    The Mississippi Shuffle: Two steps forward, three steps back

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      Sqarrheynckelpott
      4/03/16 11:32pm

      What steps forward?

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      qdanielsSqarr
      4/03/16 11:34pm

      As a MS person, I must agree. Still waiting for the steps forward; but not holding my breath.

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    99Telep☺dpr☹blemsJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 11:57pm

    “Like the proclamation says, gaining insight from our mistakes and successes will help us move forward.”

    I would say a crucial insight into your mistakes would be in realizing Confederate History Month is one.

    There is no way around the fact that the Confederate Constitution was enshrining white supremacy into law and that the horrors and bitter human toll of slavery cannot be drown in sweet tea and platitudes.

    We set aside months like this as a way to honor people. There is nothing honorable in the way the Confederacy treated African slaves. Those soldiers went to war for the fucking right to own other human beings as chattel.

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      qdaniels99Telep☺dpr☹blems
      4/04/16 12:15am

      This was our official State Song of MS from the 1945-50 “Blue Book.” “Progress” = the fact that by 1952 the highly fucking unfortunate term “darkies” in verse three had been changed to “folks.” The current state song (which nobody knows) is called “Go, Mississippi!” Now that’s progress!

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      99Telep☺dpr☹blemsqdaniels
      4/04/16 12:29am

      This song is a great example of the mythology Southerners created to maintain cultural dignity in the face of their horrible human rights abuses. This reflects the myth of benevolent slavery, where the “darkies” were happy being slaves and that a harmonious and beneficial relationship between master and slave was the height of civility.

      It’s sick. It reminds me of the sexual predators who kidnap women and imprison them in their homes as sex slaves. When caught, you will often see them create a delusional narrative that the enslavement was beneficial to the victim in some way.

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    Ed SpockJeff Ihaza
    4/04/16 7:59am

    For what it’s worth the State of Michigan is doing it’s absolute best to be the northern counterpart to Mississippi.

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      ElisabethOliverfieldsEd Spock
      4/04/16 12:36pm

      The mooses and the eagle don’t seem happy with that.

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      Ed SpockElisabethOliverfields
      4/04/16 12:55pm

      They all have relatives in Flint.

      The one on the left is a deer BTW.

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    TitusAndronicusJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 11:29pm

    Fine. You want to commemorate the Confederacy so badly? Then be honest and open about what the Confederacy actually was, and what it stood for.

    Don’t pick and choose and bend over backwards to paint a picture that isn’t reflective of what actually happened.

    Which reminds me, can we do a similar thing with Columbus Day already?

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      fudgesicleuighyrTitusAndronicus
      4/03/16 11:41pm

      At least Columbus united the Americas with the rest of the world for the first time. The world was bigger after what he did. He was also a genocidal scumbag, but that’s who writes history.

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      TitusAndronicusfudgesicleuighyr
      4/03/16 11:47pm

      My point is that we should not erase the bad aspects of historical events/people/groups while selectively praising the good aspects.

      By all means recognize that Columbus changed the world, he did. But we shouldn’t use that as an excuse to downplay all the shitty, shitty things he also did.

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    gaytalityJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 11:28pm

    Flying the Confederate flag: It’s like wearing your High School letterman’s jacket, but like, your team lost all the big games.

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      Krugerrantgaytality
      4/03/16 11:40pm

      And also your team lynched people from the bleachers during halftime.

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      gaytalityKrugerrant
      4/03/16 11:46pm

      Also, like, owned people. Or something.

      My analogy doesn’t work if you get all real on me.

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    Kenny and the LlamasJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 11:43pm

    Is it time to break this out again already?

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      Hank ScorpioKenny and the Llamas
      4/04/16 12:02am

      I really want to put this on my car, but I’m worried I won’t survive my commute if I do.

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      IvrinielKenny and the Llamas
      4/04/16 7:17am

      Why do you even put it away?

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    medrawtJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 11:44pm

    The Confederate Heritage of Mississippi is as follows:

    Following the election of Abraham Lincoln, but prior to his taking office, Mississippi became the second American state (after South Carolina) to secede from the Union and form the Confederacy. It did so because, as Mississippi’s leaders affirmed in the second paragraph of “A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union”:

    “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery— the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization. That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.”

    Confederate record keeping is markedly poorer than Union record keeping, so developing an accurate estimate of casualties for the Southern states is difficult. However, after the Civil War the US Provost Marshal-General attempted to tabulate deaths as well as he could, and he arrived at a total of at least 8,458 sons of Mississippi who died in service of this worthless cause.

    Here endeth the consideration of Mississippi’s Confederate heritage.

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      tommyservo7medrawt
      4/04/16 12:02am

      I don’t know what’s scarier: that just 150 years ago, people actually thought this way, or that just, like, *today* people felt like this was something that should be celebrated.

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      ThunderousGeniusmedrawt
      4/04/16 3:32am

      I love how the crux of thier argument boils down to this:

      “The world economy needs tobacco and cotton, and we can’t pick it ourselves because holy shit have you seen how fucking hot it gets?”

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    Fred Garvin Male ProstituteJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 11:26pm

    “Confederate Heritage” Month

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      qdanielsFred Garvin Male Prostitute
      4/03/16 11:41pm
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      BabyGroundhogEyesFred Garvin Male Prostitute
      4/03/16 11:44pm

      I KNEW it was gonna be this redneck shit ! NO STARS FOR THIS RACIST SHIT !!!!!

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    Ed SpockJeff Ihaza
    4/04/16 8:08am

    It really is amazing how the southern states brazenly flaunt their racism and history of slavery.

    I mean, regardless of what the citizens may think privately, at least Germany has the decency to not proclaim “The Third Reich” heritage month and drive around in 1969 Dodge Chargers named the “Corporal Hitler.” With a big Swastika flag painted on the roof.

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      Flying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)Ed Spock
      4/04/16 8:37am

      To be fair, that’s because it’s against the law to do so and that law was (sensibly, I admit) pushed upon Germany by the Allies after they invaded at the end of the war.

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      Ed SpockFlying Squid (I hate me more than you do.)
      4/04/16 8:51am

      I agree and understand they’re legal ramifications in Germany that don’t apply in the US.

      Still I don’t see the Reichstag ever repealing those laws and making some kind of effort to incorporate that time period into their history under the bullshit guise of “Honoring out heritage. The good and the bad.”

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    Mok, the Magic ManJeff Ihaza
    4/03/16 11:36pm

    Can people in Mississippi even spell “Heritage”?

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      Travistech22Mok, the Magic Man
      4/03/16 11:45pm

      No STOP. We also don’t have computers STOP. I’m sending this to you via telegram STOP. We don’t have shoes either STOP. We still own negroes STOP. Yee-haw STOP. Regards, Mississippi STOP.

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      GeorgeGeoffersonLivesMok, the Magic Man
      4/04/16 12:59am

      Can people in Mississippi even spell Mississippi?

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