Where the Confederacy Is Rising Again

[moonshaz]

In east Texas, a group of true believers is helping build the largest Confederate monument in a century. Is the state itself helping keep the memory alive?

In July 2015, with national controversy over displays of the Confederate flag at a ferocious peak, five Texas Democratic lawmakers sent a letter to the state's top elected officials arguing

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[eveofrevolution]

[ladycyndra]

To anyone here from Texas, you have my heartfelt condolences. :-(

Thank you. I'm like WTF TEXAS WHY ARE YOU DOING THIS??? I hate my state sometimes.

[ladycyndra]

Also

“You’ve been listening to Northerners who have moved down here and are raising Cain about Texas being racist,” Toungate said. "Confederate men were good Christians, and they don’t deserve to be treated like dirt.”

Fuck off with this. No they weren't. They were AND STILL ARE racist, homophobic and xenophobic pieces of foul smelling rotten bird shit. They sure as hell have it coming to be treated like dirt because THATS WHAT THEY DID TO EVERYONE ELSE WHO WEREN'T STRAIGHT, WHITE, CIS CHRISTIAN MEN! Yes my state is full of fucking racist dickbags. Deal with it.

Have I mentioned how much I HATE my state sometimes??

[jenk]

Of course they were "good Christians". American Christianity grew with slavery as a fact of life. Most white Christians used the Bible to justify slavery. Churches saw slavery as good and right, so the Confederacy saw itself as good Christians. (More info, if you want, is at http://www.patheos.com/blogs/slacktivist/2014/08/21/the-hole-in-noll-the-whiteness-of-white-americas-god/ )

And the history of the US is primarily written by whites.

[ponyboy]

as a black southern woman, this is of no surprise to me.

[mhfromnh]

Once completed, their monument will stand at the intersection of Intestate 10 and Martin Luther King Jr Drive.

for fucks sake

[ladycyndra]

Its disgusting.