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Southern White Working-Class Men Need to Check Themselves

Mitch Landrieu’s speech is the sort of conversation that more Southern White working class men need to have with each other, especially if they’re descendants of Confederate soldiers.

They need to question who this war benefitted, because it wasn’t their farmer ancestors who gained anything beyond death, destruction and deprivation. What class did the framers of the Confederate government come from? Why did these aristocrats prize their way of life as the “Southern” way of life, and not that of the majority of White men who didn’t own slaves?

Why did so many working class White men go along to war and not resist the Confederate draft? Why didn’t more men desert the ranks like Newton Knight did?

The severe class divide between the Dixie aristocracy and the soldiers sent to die in Gettysburg and Antietam is embarrassing. White men who are descended from those soldiers should ask themselves and each other if the fight was worth it or if they got played like an Appalachian fiddle.

Good afternoon. This is a day to remember all those poor White Christian men who were lied and drafted into an unsuccessful war by rich White Christian men to keep enslaved Black people from being as free as themselves.

As per N Michel Ivey, this is also a day to remember the 12mil+ victims of White Christian people who bought so many lies about their own inverted superiority over Jews, Poles, LGBT, neurodiverse and other ethnic, religious minorities in their midst that they attempted to exterminate them from the face of the earth.

Two grandiose, bloody, traumatic experiments in human stupidity whose intended victims (and their descendants) suffer generational, cultural trauma to this day. No honor in any of this, just anger and injustice.

#YomHaShoah #ConfederateStupidity

The story of another direct action to remove the Confederate flag from South Carolina’s statehouse grounds back in 2002:

“Assuming the guise of his nom de guerre, the Reverend E. Slave, [Emmett Rufus] Eddy donned a black Santa suit, carried a ladder bearing the names [of] black rights organizers to the South Carolina State House, set it up next to the flagpole, climbed to the top of the flagpole, cut down the Confederate flag, shouted ‘this is for the children,’ and lit it on fire, as state police heckled him from below and tried to douse him with pepper spray.”