Posted on 04/18/2007 11:25:14 AM PDT by redstateone
One of the book's many bombshells comes from an interview McGlowan conducted with Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr., about the origins of the Confederate flag. On page 134 of Bamboozled, the son of Reverend Jesse Jackson confesses that the Confederate flag, long used as an electoral bludgeon against conservatives and Republicans, is actually a symbol of the Democratic Party:
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That quote from Rep. Jesse Jackson Jr., is devastating! It undermines liberals’ entire sham of history.
If I’m not mistaken, wasn’t Martin Luther King’s casket draped with the Georgia State Flag which incorporated the Confederate Flag?
Thought you would be interested.
I’m buying McGlowan’s book just based on the fact that she got Jackson to admit the truth for once!
Interesting. I didn’t know that.
The bigger point about the Confederate flag should be that there is nothing inherently wrong with it. To try and pass off the ‘blame’ to the Democrats is to surrender to the thorougly leftist position that says the ONLY proper view of the Confederate flag is as a symbol of racism and oppression.
There is no doubt that many black Americans are offended by it (though not as many as one might think in light of how about a third of blacks in Mississippi voted to keep their version of it), but for many white Southerners it is simply a symbol of heritage, and a homage to long-dead ancestors who fought what they saw as a Northern invasion. They do not intend for it to be a symbol of white supremacy, or whatever nonsense Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson are spewing.
The problem with the mindset that many have (especially conservatives) which on the one hand admits that not all those who fly/support it are racists, but on the other says that the sensibilities of those who are offended must take priority is that the same mindset can and will be turned on a whole host of other beliefs and traditions that runs afoul of some PC code of conduct and offends someone. Conservative views and values will always be the loser in such an environment, where not offending someone or some group is of utmost importance.
This great...but just because she wrote the book..doesn’t mean the people that NEED to read it..will.
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Thanks
Sad but true. But I’m buying my friends who fit that description copies anyhow! :)
No problem. Glad to pass it along. It’s just a shocking quote, really.
The Confederate flag is the stars and bars of which there were three versions over the course of the war. The southern cross which is the popular symbol of the Confederacy was actually the battle flag and was designed to be more visible and less likely to be confused with the stars and stripes. If I hoist up the stars and bars most folks think its the Betsy Ross flag and if I raise the Bonnie Blue they don’t know what that is at all and if I raise the Missouri Confederate flag with its latin cross in the canton I will get visits from Jehovah Witness people. Such is the ignorance of America.
This is JJ’s son. He is much different than JJ Sr. He still has liberal positions, but I have much more respect for him than his father.
I wonder if this quote will come up this Thanksgiving at the dinner table.
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I googled some pictures of the funeral, and it looked like it just had flowers on it. I didn’t see a picture with a flag on the coffin.
Here’s the full quote from Angela McGlowan’s book, “Bamboozled” :
“There is no doubt that the Democratic Party is the party of the Confederacy, historically, that the Democratic Party’s flag is the Confederate flag. It was our party’s flag. That Jefferson Davis was a Democrat; that Stonewall Jackson strongly identified with the Democratic Party; that secessionists in the South saw themselves as Democrats and were Democrats; that so much of the Democratic Party’s history, since it is our nation’s oldest political party, has its roots in slavery.”
In Bamboozled, author Angela McGlowan calls Jackson’s admission “stunningly candid” and “a statement both impressive in its historical accuracy and devastating in its implications.”
Since about 1950 this is accurate. While the GOP may have voted for the various civil rights laws, it is very difficult to say that they led any of the fights.
Prior to 1950, and especially prior to 1900, Democrats led the fight to erode the civil rights given to blacks by the GOP after the civil war.
Today's "minorities" not illogically pay more attention to post-1950 history than they do to earlier history.
BTW, the failure of the GOP and conservatives to aggressively champion civil rights in the 50s and 60s is our greatest failure and biggest handicap at present. There were plenty of perfectly good conservative reasons for fighting for civil rights, but for some reasons few conservatives were comfortable doing so.
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