Green Eagle

Just a few of today's atrocities: Well, Trump and his Republican colleagues have succeeded in one of the most corrupt, hateful act in the entire history of the United States- making a criminal, lying, racist, white supremacist the Attorney General of the United States.  Not much more to say about that, but I'd like to quote one of the money passages from the now-infamous Coretta Scott King letter, sent to the Senate when Reagan tried to make him a federal judge, and which Republicans managed to keep out of the Senate record until they took on a true hero, Elizabeth Warren: "I write to express my sincere opposition to the confirmation of Jefferson B. Sessions as a federal disctrict court judge for the Southern District of Alabama. My professional and personal roots in Alabama are deep and lasting. Anyone who has used the power of his office as United States Attorney to intimidate and chill the free exercise of the ballot by citizens should not be elevated to our courts....

Eric Cantor, in this case, the only Jewish Republican in the House of Representatives: "Cantor Suggests Anti-Semitism Is A Problem Within The House GOP Caucus...Calling it the “darker side,” Cantor responded to Politico’s Mike Allen’s question of whether there is anti-semitism in Congress by trying to avoid commenting. But eventually he let up: “I think that all of us know that in this country, we’ve not always gotten it right in terms of racial matters, religious matters, whatever. We continue to strive to provide equal treatment to everybody.”  Funny, they only seem to notice it when it is about them.  Otherwise, racism is just fine.  So Republican.

Continuing on from the post below,  which featured a minor instance of Ron Paul's unapologetic race hatred, I think I will provide some more evidence to disabuse the near-majority in this country who have licensed themselves to buy into the lie that the Civil War was about "States' rights" rather than about the right of those who are rich enough to own other people. What follows are a couple of excerpts from the famous "Cornerstone speech," delivered by Confederate Vice President Alexander Stephens, with the avowed purpose of setting forth the reasons for the secession: "The new constitution has put at rest, forever, all the agitating questions relating to our peculiar institution African slavery as it exists amongst us the proper status of the negro in our form of civilization. This was the immediate cause of the late rupture and present revolution. Our new government is founded upon...its foundations are laid, its corner- stone rests, upon the g...