He doesn’t look like a lyncher, look at that nice smile !
And I’m sure he meant it in the nicest way.
Republican. Who would’ve every guessed?
But he’s sorry a) if he was misunderstood or b) that he spoke inelegantly or c) that anyone may have been offended.
Fixed.
Well, Mississippi IS the home of some of the nation’s “nicest” biggots.
man, this takes the sting off of everything. thanks, mr. oliver!
These people are the worst of the worst. They say shit like this so that their “base” knows what’s in their hearts and then ask for forgiveness so that it doesn’t cost them with the “Christians” and others who might be uncomfortable with his overt racism. They get to have it both ways.
Some people are just looking for an excuse to be offended.
“passion for preserving all historical monuments”
… and the time-honored practice of lynching /snark
Trying to remember Mississippi’s state motto. “50th in”? No, that can’t be right.
I try to remind myself they gave us Faulkner, Presley and the Delta Blues–but it’s difficult.
Cuck
The guy has no control? He just spouts off at the mouth without thinking? Mississippi–you sure you want him representing you?
so that it doesn’t cost them with the “Christians” and others who might be uncomfortable with his overt racism.
White Southern Christians uncomfortable with overt racism? Don’t hold your breath.
And either that’s a terrible haircut, a bad dye job, or an awful toupée.
Next he’ll be on TV crying like Jimmy Swaggart, "I have sinned before the Lord!!!"
It’s worth looking at the artistic message carried by the Robert. E. Lee monument that provoked Rep Oliver’s lynching call:
The pedestal remained, but the statuary atop it was removed.
That piece of crap toupee makes him look bald any way! What an absolute fraud liar and pathetic excuse for a human being. He has been talking like this his entire life no doubt…so he figured who would pay attention to him and his little cadre of “Southern Ameircans” who long for the “Good Old Days” of 1950’s “Southern America”!
In case anyone’s interested, here’s the official statement by the state of Mississippi in 1861 announcing its intent to secede:
"A Declaration of the Immediate Causes which Induce and Justify the
Secession of the State of Mississippi from the Federal Union.
In the momentous step which our State has taken of dissolving its
connection with the government of which we so long formed a part, it
is but just that we should declare the prominent reasons which have
induced our course.
Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of
slavery-- the greatest material interest of the world. Its labor
supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most
important portions of commerce of the earth. These products are
peculiar to the climate verging on the tropical regions, and by an
imperious law of nature, none but the black race can bear exposure to
the tropical sun. These products have become necessities of the
world, and a blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization.
That blow has been long aimed at the institution, and was at the point
of reaching its consummation. There was no choice left us but
submission to the mandates of abolition, or a dissolution of the
Union, whose principles had been subverted to work out our ruin.
That we do not overstate the dangers to our institution, a reference
to a few facts will sufficiently prove.
It has grown until it denies the right of property in slaves, and
refuses protection to that right on the high seas, in the Territories,
and wherever the government of the United States had jurisdiction.
It refuses the admission of new slave States into the Union, and seeks
to extinguish it by confining it within its present limits, denying
the power of expansion.
It tramples the original equality of the South under foot.
It has nullified the Fugitive Slave Law in almost every free State in
the Union, and has utterly broken the compact which our fathers
pledged their faith to maintain.
It advocates negro equality, socially and politically, and promotes
insurrection and incendiarism in our midst.
It has enlisted its press, its pulpit and its schools against us,
until the whole popular mind of the North is excited and inflamed with
prejudice.
It has made combinations and formed associations to carry out its
schemes of emancipation in the States and wherever else slavery
exists.
It seeks not to elevate or to support the slave, but to destroy his
present condition without providing a better.
It has invaded a State, and invested with the honors of martyrdom the
wretch whose purpose was to apply flames to our dwellings, and the
weapons of destruction to our lives.
It has broken every compact into which it has entered for our
security.
It has given indubitable evidence of its design to ruin our
agriculture, to prostrate our industrial pursuits and to destroy our
social system.
It knows no relenting or hesitation in its purposes; it stops not in
its march of aggression, and leaves us no room to hope for cessation
or for pause.
It has recently obtained control of the Government, by the prosecution
of its unhallowed schemes, and destroyed the last expectation of
living together in friendship and brotherhood.
Utter subjugation awaits us in the Union, if we should consent longer
to remain in it. It is not a matter of choice, but of necessity. We
must either submit to degradation, and to the loss of property [editor’s note:
“property” means slaves] worth four billions of money, or we must secede
from the Union framed by our fathers, to secure this as well as every
other species of property. For far less cause than this, our fathers separated
from the Crown of England.
Our decision is made. We follow their footsteps. We embrace the
alternative of separation; and for the reasons here stated, we resolve
to maintain our rights with the full consciousness of the justice of
our course, and the undoubting belief of our ability to maintain it."
(from “Journal of the State Convention”, (Jackson, MS: E. Barksdale, State Printer, 1861), pp.86-88]
http://www.ucs.louisiana.edu/~ras2777/amgov/secession.html
