Posted on 07/25/2015 6:54:46 PM PDT by MeshugeMikey
“The Civil War never ended”: Jesse Jackson on the racist agenda that must come down with the Confederate flag"..Full Headline
Since the homicidal evil named Dylann Roof claimed the lives of nine black worshipers in Charleston, South Carolina, the country has commissioned a conversation about racial harmony and diversity. The audible defeat in President Obama’s voice when he made yet another call for gun control to millions of deaf ears was an early signal of legislative dysfunction, and the political system’s inability to react meaningfully to crisis.
Politics under the noxious regime of slavery and under the nominal promise of democracy is about access to wealth and resources. Despite obvious progress, the flag agenda persists in ways less violent and more subtle, because the beneficiaries of inequality still must protect their plunder and loot.
(Excerpt) Read more at salon.com ...
History is written by the winners in war; Check.
Hundreds of newspapers existed during the Civil War era, and records exist to this day; Check.
The U.S. Congressional record for that period still exists; Check.
Thousands of scholarly and popular historical books have been written about the Civil War period, both pro and con both sides; Check.
Now the response must ask the obvious question.
WHO AM I GOING TO TAKE SERIOUSLY...
JESSE JACKASS OR WRITTEN HISTORY?
(Not even written in cursive!)
Let me think.
This is a toughie.
I am NOT an American-African, a certain number of logic genes may be missing.
I just cant decide!
I'll just have to get back to y'all!
Revrunt Jacksome...is a doddering pathetic shadow of his former self....
his career may be over soon...
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