The following is from a National Federation of Republican Women’s meeting in Charleston, South Carolina. I believe the guy in the middle is one of the heirs of MLK’s mission, reclaiming the mantle of the civil rights movement on behalf of real Americans.
Also, a hopeless nostalgic:
Ah, the good ol’ days.
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September 14, 2010 at 3:41 pm
Old times dar am not forgotten. Look away, look away, look away, Dixie Land!
September 14, 2010 at 3:52 pm
Holy Shit, how fucking retarded.
September 14, 2010 at 4:33 pm
I am trying to come up with some scenario where this might have been a good idea. I got nothin’.
September 14, 2010 at 4:37 pm
I suspect this is the event – from the published agenda.”
September 14, 2010 at 6:51 pm
The horror.
September 15, 2010 at 6:29 am
The FUCK, today.
A.
September 15, 2010 at 7:40 am
I shouldn’t be shocked anymore at GOP shit, especially from SC, but I am. Horrible.
September 15, 2010 at 7:41 am
Yeah, well, they had actual black people [performing] at the event, so all y’all are the real racists. Or something.
September 15, 2010 at 8:37 am
Oh, the sun shines bright
On my old Kentucky home,
The darkies are happy and gay…
September 15, 2010 at 8:39 am
Let us raise a Dixie Cup to the Republicans and their public relations prowess.
September 15, 2010 at 9:55 am
Waittafriggin’ minute. The person on the left in the top photo looks like a dude, i.e. the person on the right in the bottom, yes?
So they had a ‘happy darkie’ in DRAG at this event? And wait more, isn’t the guy in the middle wearing a Union uniform? So the two black *dudes* are actually having a secret joke on the whiteys?
September 17, 2010 at 4:22 pm
it’s a south carolina cavalry uniform
September 15, 2010 at 9:56 am
right left whatever. From their own perspective, opposite the viewers’ perspective.
September 15, 2010 at 8:03 pm
Interesting point. That slave mammy’s gender is ambiguous at best.
September 15, 2010 at 3:53 pm
Guys, you’re reaching. An interest in historical reenactment doesn’t make a person anything other than a history buff. I may be wrong but isn’t that a Union uniform in the first pic? (The Confederate guy is in the rear.) That pic could just as easily show two happy EX-slaves posing with the Republican Yankee officer who freed them. Or just a few guys who enjoy a little cosplay now and then. As long as they keep out the Ganguro freaks, I’m fine with it.
Their policies when they take off the costumes, yeah, bitch about those. But for playing dress up? Nah.
September 15, 2010 at 4:33 pm
Ummm, no.
September 15, 2010 at 6:58 pm
Just the obvious yearning for the era is pretty much a don’t-go-there zone for sentient southerners.
Perhaps the entire Republican party is afflicted with Asperger’s and truly does not understand polite social interaction.
Or, more likely, they’re a bunch of fucking bigots who do this kind of stuff because 1)they think it’s cute and funny, 2)they are as proud of their churlishness as the average 2-year-old is of a poopy in the potty and so just can’t resist pointing it out to the rest of us, or 3)a combination of 1 & 2.
September 15, 2010 at 7:02 pm
I’d love to agree, but I’m just too tired of fools pretending that slavery and the Civil War were just a slight misunderstanding or some shit.
September 15, 2010 at 11:26 pm
Umm, a couple of corrections and amplifications are required to rebut this attempt at defending the indefensible.
First, the guy in the middle is a well-known SC politician, whose name is Glenn McConnell, the current SC Senate president pro tem. He has a very long history of dressing up as various Confederate generals. Second, his uniform at this event is, despite the coloration, that of some Confederate generals, who, early in the war, often dressed up in non-regulation colors other than Confederate gray.
Finally, in the context of a SC Republican soiree, I would think that any recreation of the antebellum South portraying happy Negroes just a’singin’ and playin’ all de live-long day would clearly indicate an expression of favoritism for those times, as well as a near-stereotypical pathological denial of the truths regarding slavery.
Nice try, though.
September 16, 2010 at 5:35 am
Thanks for the clarification. On the surface that top photo looked to me like it might be another lame attempt by today’s republicans to equate themselves with the repubs of Lincoln’s day. (“our party freed the slaves, which proves that libs are the real racists”) That would make them either ignorant fools or lying bastards, but not necessarily racist.
September 15, 2010 at 7:38 pm
They think because they found some blacks that don’t object to being treated that way, it isn’t racist behavior.
So not only are they racist, they’re fucking idiots.
Makes you wonder how they don’t drown in their fucking cornflakes.
September 15, 2010 at 8:09 pm
Ur (whixy) still a racist.
Dag nab it
September 15, 2010 at 8:11 pm
What hap’nd to the ‘blog roll?
September 15, 2010 at 9:29 pm
Oh, I see the ‘blog roll now, it is behisnd the ‘archive’ that I really want to raed, but is it so boring that I don’t?
I don’t know, curvy, perhaps you should ask the Editorez for their opine? Don’t gnau… know… care… all just four letter words… lose…
September 15, 2010 at 9:30 pm
Foul mouth! Banned!
September 15, 2010 at 9:37 pm
Actually I see your symbology. You have a couple of old school blues players in front of the Boston bridge… ol’ negros playing ol’ negro muzak for you Bostonians… god bless the freedom that you fought for under A. Lincoln the first n***ar loving President we ever had… Dang ole Jack-Ass party (to this day a bunch of Jack-Asses) fought what papa L did. Live with the shame don’t deny that you are a bunch of Jack-Asses (d0nkeys or sumthn…)
Heh.
Glory, gory heh.., yeuh steal it…
September 16, 2010 at 4:00 am
Shut the fuck up, idiot.
September 19, 2010 at 8:30 am
You understand what him said, K?
September 16, 2010 at 9:05 am
This just in: Blacks, Latinos, Asians are OK. It’s now the Ay-rabs who are the problem, because they immigrate illegally in large numbers, probably through Mexico. Or something.
– frank
September 17, 2010 at 6:55 pm
That mama is playin a crescent shaped muslim tambourine. Hope she survived the evening.
September 19, 2010 at 8:25 am
Omigod: McConnel could definitely pass for one of my Southrun uncles on my daddy’s side. They’re all tarheels, though.
Hell, he could almost pas for my dear old Daddy.
“We were trying to revamp The Music Man into a Civil war setting. The epaulets, BTW, cost $100K. The tie, only $2k: 41 for the black rag, $1999 to run it through mah brown sugar historical reenactment concucbine’s pussy lips.”
September 19, 2010 at 8:29 am
I don’t think there’s a thing wrong with the pictures, and I echo Doc Amazing’s summation.
Of course, to some audiences, this stuff sells like slavery porn.
September 20, 2010 at 2:22 pm
I like to imagine that the black folks they hired for the reenactment were chuckling – “sure, take a picture! It’s OK.” Knowing the whole time that there’d be a little bit of blowback. heh.
September 24, 2010 at 1:48 pm
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September 26, 2010 at 12:03 pm
We should focus on the content of a man’s character, not the color of his sheet.