This Juneteenth, Remember the GOP Is the Neo-Confederate Party

sixteenth day not only celebrates the end of nearly 250 years of black slavery—a brutal institution of forced labor, sexual abuse and exploitation, and indiscriminate violence.

This day also celebrates defeat of the Alliancea treacherous entity founded on a foundational belief in white supremacy and the perpetual subjugation of blacks, as famous statement by Union Vice President Alexander Stephens.

For that reason, amid the jubilation of the occasion, it is important to acknowledge that although the Confederacy may be long dead, Confederate ideology is alive and well. -especially among the followers of the Republic.

America as a whole has a problem of white supremacy, but perhaps nowhere is it more obvious than the problem of political rights, where reverent, authoritarian, and public anti-democratic powers testified that they were motivated by resentment and vengeance of the white race. In short, the GOP is the neo-Coalition party.

This is not hysteria or exaggeration—the GOP New Alliance agenda is often open and clear. With the exception of Virginia, the so-called “Legacy Laws” that have long prevented the removal or alteration of Confederate monuments in seven states were not introduced by Republican legislatures until 2000s (when they noticed growing opposition to the statues), and they are still struggling to keep them on the books.

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Florida tried to draft a similar law this year, and although it died on committee, GOP lawmakers promised to try again during the meeting. legislative session in 2024. This year in Mississippi, the blackest state in the country, Republican Governor Tate Reeves once again declare April Union Month. (Ten southern states left Confederate Day celebration; Alabama and Mississippi actually celebrate Martin Luther King Day on the same day they commemorate Robert E. Lee.)

April is also declared Republican History Month by Tennessee’s congressional republican partyTheir celebration seems to have included expel two black legislators elected—an expression of white power’s utter disdain and contempt for democracy.

At the national level, GOP Sens. Tom Cotton and Josh Hawley both voted against a proposal to rename bases named after Confederate troops that led attacks against the country’s military forces.

Just a few days ago, during their respective speeches at the Republican convention in North Carolina, former Vice President Mike Pence And Florida Governor Ron DeSantis campaigned for president promising to change the new base named Fort Liberty Army back to the old name Fort Bragg. It doesn’t matter that General Braxton Bragg is the biggest traitor loser in the entire rebel nation rife with traitorous losers. (Bragg is perhaps considered the most incompetent and ineffective general of the Confederacy, whom one of his men has noted.not a soldier in the whole army was loved and respected.”)

In 2023, restoring the South should not be on presidential candidates’ original speech priority lists. But both DeSantis and Pence realized that Confederate newcomers made up most of their base.

That’s why GOP is currently being consumed by the creation of the Lost Cause legend, this scholar Mary Anne Franks wrote the request “to shed light on the role of slavery in American history; selective support for the rights of states; and promote racial, gender, and religious supremacy. Like The Alliance’s Daughter Flower ban teaching authentic history and ban books that challenge historicism Lost Cause, white conservatives across the country are now leading censorship campaigns against historical accuracy , with the same goal of preserving the national memory of white supremacy.

From January 2021 to December 2022, one UCLA School of Law Research shows that legislators at all levels of authority have proposed 560 measures against what the right has mislabeled as “critical racial theory,” about 240 of which have passed. . Like their predecessors, the conservatives campaign to ban and remove books are willing to use white terror, harassment and violence, including threaten teachers, administrators and librarians, and do not often join forces with far-right groups like the Proud Boys.

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When Governor DeSantis’s administration announced the Advanced African American high school course “significantly lacks educational value,” he reassured his concerned advocates that white man’s power is still strong and he is willing to bend the same thing. He’s also showing sympathy for the likes of the Alabama mom, who recently tell a local store that there are was taught “too much Negro history”.

There is also the GOP’s wide-ranging opposition to black empowerment.

The conservative effort to prevent black voting, one of the basic rights of American citizens, has a long history, ranging from deadly violence against blacks at the ballot box during the colonial era. period of Reconstruction, to the terrorist campaigns of whites against blacks trying to vote in the Jim Crow era.

The new Coalition GOP undermined black voting rights through repressive legislation—voter ID laws, early voting restrictions, and closure of 1,700 polling places in non-white neighborhoods. An even Arizona Republican proposed tests to voters, although he stopped proposing a poll tax.

It is no coincidence that allegations of invalid ballots in the 2020 election focus on votes in the black majority cities of Atlanta, Detroit, Milwaukee and Philadelphia. It was particular anger at black political power that prompted white conservatives, brandishing their weapons, to appear outside vote counting centers. New Coalition Politicians has called for an increase in “poll followers” ​​and extremists have represent yourself and bet polling places.

It was intense anger at the votes of blacks and other non-whites that caused violent mobs of white extremists to scale walls, break windows. and smeared various bodily fluids all over the United States Capitol. Under the guise of preventing voter fraud, Confederate newcomers are using the same tactics as always.

And speaking of the Capitol uprising, the right has openly supported the vigilance of white supremacists, as evidenced by not only the fact that the terrorists on the Capitol are branded “” patriots,” but also a celebration and fundraiser for killer figures from Kyle Rittenhouse to Daniel Penny, whose only claim to fame is that they are willing to kill black people and anyone deemed alliance with them. Neo-Unionists have always used law and order rhetoric as a sign of racial order, where white lawlessness is justified and black protest. Black is criminalized.

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And once again we witness the invocation of the “right of the state” on matters from marriage equality ARRIVE immigration ARRIVE abortion. Perhaps the least discussed case (currently the most inconsequential before the Supreme Court is Moore sues Harperwould essentially give unchecked power to the super-partisan, ill-intentioned red state legislatures, that is, the majority, to override the election results until the presidential vote. These are the very real extremes we are facing with the new Alliances racing to turn back time.

This is a scary one, with potential consequences that can intensify like those seen after the Retooling process toppled.

Christopher Rufo, right-wing propagandist, who proudly admit it to cynically misinterpret serious racism to incite the outrage of white conservatives and Matt Walsh, a right-wing commentator with a transphobia begging for forgiveness therapeutic interventions, not only are very online guys driving misinformation about CRT and anti-transgender paranoia, they are active actors in a movement that seeks to erase black people from history , transgender people from public existence and women from any field outside the family.

Congressman Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) could be seen as a lunatic repeatedly pushed for secession sentimental, but so-called “reasonable” Republicans, including former UN Ambassador Nikki Haley did so.

The New Alliance GOP Parade is so real — and players from DeSantis to Green, Rufo to Walsh — with a call for “tradition” that really means maintaining racial and gender order — Probably not always a step-by-step formation, but they do have their eyes on the same regression endpoint.

The sixteenth day – which we should never forget is labeled “divisive” and vice versa racist by many elected Republicans—a reminder that the liberation struggle never ends. Especially when the GOP, a neo-Coalitionist party, is, by name, hoping to free so many of us.