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Please note: Assuming I've read both documents correctly, it seems clear the primary difference between the Union and the Confederacy constitutions is the Confederate effort to fulfill its desire to codify the right NOT to provide equality for all of The People in the context of the United States, i.e. the right to constitutionally own slaves in their own states -- which is not a constitutional American value/principle and no one should be able to pretend it is in the public square. Dismantling monuments to this shameful legacy is the right thing to do. End of story.
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"Trump Joins and Then
Re-Joins the Neo-Confederacy
by Ed Kilgore
by Ed Kilgore
... There is a sinister
congruence between the president’s reaction to the
white-supremacist riot in Charlottesville yesterday and the object
the rioters assembled to defend: the city’s doomed Robert E. Lee
statue. Both are manifestations of Neo-Confederacy, the fierce,
century-long effort of the Southern ruling class to normalize white
racism so long as it did not degenerate into extralegal violence.
Like most of its
counterparts across and beyond the South, Charlottesville’s Lee
statue was not erected during the Civil War or in the period when
ex-Confederates might be expected to remember the famed military
leader of the planter’s rebellion. It was commissioned in 1917 and
erected in 1924 as a monument, not to the Confederacy, but to the
rebellion’s posthumous victory over Reconstruction and the Civil
War amendments to the Constitution.
The Neo-Confederates and
their many Yankee sympathizers viewed Jim Crow as a peaceable
compromise between slavery and racial equality. In that regime’s
latter days, whole generations of white Southern politicians posed as
civil upholders of law and order equally opposed both to civil-rights
“agitators” and to the white-trash hoodlums of the Ku Klux Klan,
who were successors to the white terrorists that the “better
element” of Southerners strongly supported during and immediately
after Reconstruction. These politicians often condemned, as Donald
Trump did yesterday, the “egregious display of hatred, bigotry and
violence, on many sides,” that threatened the quiet tyranny of Jim
Crow. They preferred a “civil” resistance to equality in Congress
and the courts, and in the genteel Citizens’ Councils that, as one
sociologist aptly put it, “pursued the agenda of the Klan with the
demeanor of the Rotary Club.”
The Neo-Confederates lost
the battle against civil rights, but maintained a cultural rearguard
for many years. You heard at least a faint echo of their words every
time a conservative Southern politician hailed “law and order,”
or attacked “the welfare,” or demanded maximum incarceration of
African-American “predators.” This sort of politics maintained an
unmistakable connection to nostalgia for the Old South, an imagined
tranquil place of good manners and interracial understanding.
But until Donald Trump’s
election, it seemed Neo-Confederacy had finally about run its course.
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You can read more here
Neo-Confederacy defined
as:
“The term
neo-Confederacy is used to describe twentieth and twenty-first
century revivals of pro-Confederate sentiment in the United States.
Strongly nativist and advocating measures to end immigration,
neo-Confederacy claims to pursue Christianity and heritage and other
supposedly fundamental values that modern Americans are seen to have
abandoned. Neo-Confederacy also
incorporates advocacy of traditional gender roles, is hostile towards
democracy, strongly opposes homosexuality, and exhibits an
understanding of race that favors segregation and suggests white
supremacy. In many cases, neo-Confederates are openly secessionist. …
“
You
can read more here
( Also, you can read the Constitution of the
Confederacy; March 11, 1861 here )
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