Re: Article
Kendall Clark <kclark-fVPt/[email protected]>
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On Wed, Jan 10, 2001 at 08:22:16PM -0600, Don Smith wrote: > Kendall: > > I'm confused. Here's the line I'm wondering about: > > Both are tributes to the those [4]neoconfederates and > their supporters -- in the Congress alone: Phil Gramm (R-TX), Trent > Lott (R-MS), Thad Cochran (R-MS), Jesse Helms (R-NC), Strom Thurmond > (R-SC), Dick Armey (R-TX), Lindsey Graham (R-SC); and [5]George W. > Bush's Attorney General nominee, John Ashcroft -- that propagandize > the antebellum South and advocate a return to (at least) the legal > segregation of the Jim Crow era. > > That these people propogandize the antebellum South is, I think, > indisputable. But to say they "advocate a return . . . to the legal > segregation of the Jim Crow era" leaves me wondering what kinds of > statements we're talking about. > > Can you give me some example? I'm not saying the politicians I named advocate that; but they do support those who do. As I said, I consider any white separatist to be, as a matter of logic (I think), a white segregationist. I may have overreached by saying 'legal' segregation, though I've heard Southern heritage groups on C-Span advocate for that, I haven't found much on the Web directly on point. It's hard to see groups and persons who advocate repeal of civil rights legislation and reinstatement of strong state's rights as anything but neo-segregationist; after all, what ended Jim Crow formally if not that civil rights legislation? As far as that goes, one of Rehnquist's chief contributions has been to re- invigorate states' rights supporters. I won't list all the reams of "crass" white power, white supremacist, white separatist sites and materials. They are legion of course. Some links: The Declaration of Southern Cultural Independence http://www.dixienet.org/ls-homepg/declaration.htm Segregation -- Protective Isolation and/or Non-violent Secession http://www.clrc.net/ Racial Partition for Racial Preservation (complete with colored partition map) http://www.racialcompact.com/partitionmap.html The Racial Compact http://www.racialcompact.com/ The South as its Own Nation http://www.dixienet.org/dn-gazette/csatoday.html League of the South Grand Strategy http://www.dixienet.org/ls-homepg/ls-grand-strategy.html The LS Approach to Southern Cultural Defence http://www.dixienet.org/ls-homepg/cul-def.htm Denny's victory may show the way for other companies http://www.cofcc.org/articles.htm The Root Cause of American Educational Decline http://www.cofcc.org/root.htm National Association for the Advancement of White People http://www.naawp.com/ American Renaissance http://www.amren.com/ The Return of States' Rights? http://www.speakout.com/Content/ICArticle/4663/ White Supremacy in the 1990s (Center for Democratic Renewal) http://www.nwcitizen.com/publicgood/reports/whitesup.htm Sensitivity Towards European Americans: Diversity Within Diversity http://www.resistdef.org/ American Heritage Party Platform http://www.americanheritageparty.org/platform.htm Constitution Party 2000 Platform (includes plank on state sovereignty) http://www.constitutionparty.com/ustp-99p1.html Kendall