A monument to Alexander Stephens fronts his home in Crawfordville, Ga. Via Wikipedia.
By Ashley Herndon
OCEANSIDE, Calif. | If our citizenry does not think “Plantation Capitalism” is being pushed upon us again, we need to review U.S. History, not the conflated opinions of Tea Partiers, Neo-Cons, Qanons, Proud Boys, Trumpsters/Neo-Fascists, et al.
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We can begin with an easily available reference. Look at pre-Civil War history, then tie-in similar organizations growing in our country. There were downright stupid ideas flourishing which led up to our Civil War. Not only our country, but many others were experiencing violence and hate.
In pre-Civil War days. Georgia’s Alexander Stephens, soon to became vice president of the Confederacy, delivered on March 21, 1861, the infamous Cornerstone Speech. Growing up in Georgia schools, both public and private, my classmates and I were not exposed to that diatribe. However, we were taught to sing full throatedly ‘Dixie,’ paying homage to the losers.
You don’t have to read between the lines. Stephens’ speech in Savannah was filled with sickness. That “Sickness,’ though proven wrong, still exists, permeating what was a Grand Old Party (GOP), splintering it into several “Us vs. Them” pretenders, preaching “My way or the highway?”
Stephens introduced the word “cornerstone,” his “great truth” of “White Supremacy and Black Subordination” upon which secession and the Confederacy were based. States Rights was the bluff to elicit evil. Jim Crow went live after Reconstruction. Like it or not, some of our States are passing similar legislation as we breathe.
Propaganda by politicos, talking heads, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the National Rifle Association, and purveyors of the so-called Biblical theology, are trying to take over secular institutions.
Do you ever wonder why there was a religious Reformation? It was to discontinue a theological dictatorship. Authoritarians beware! As we go about our daily tasks, more and more people are tired of abusive laws and verbiage.
Stephens preached on the foundation of “Supremacy,” based squarely on the evil myth that “the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery—(subordination to the superior race)—is his natural condition.”)
Geeeeez. He lost, but never recognized nor acknowledged the evil myth he was preaching. .
Today’s remnants of the once-reputable GOP may not realize that they want a government based on Confederate doctrines. They are trying their hardest to reestablish oligarchy. Texas, Mississippi, Florida, Arkansas, South Dakota, and others have already passed laws telling women which parts of their bodies belong to the state and which are theirs to control. Wow! “Hell, hath no fury like…”
All this was an attempt to persuade listeners that divine laws consigned African Americans to chattel slavery. (Today that would include all people of color, Asians, and non-elite whites, to financial slavery.)
Supposedly we are ‘Free and Independent People’ making our own decisions. But Neo-Fascist-Authoritarian legislation throws that out. The terms “Laws of nature” and “All men are created equal” will be placed in the ‘”Burn Bags” at the Supreme Court of our nation.
Freedom (of thought and education) is being put on hold. Plantation capitalism is being pushed on us again.
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