tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-921293226506503314.post560119288919849974..comments2023-10-22T02:03:11.535-07:00Comments on Fiona Bernard: Go Home, Johnny Reb. The War Is Over. You Lost.Fiona Bernardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05907366833096699328noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-921293226506503314.post-83480090836293675782010-05-23T20:33:04.446-07:002010-05-23T20:33:04.446-07:00This part of the country has managed to stay in a ...This part of the country has managed to stay in a backward state long enough to see the principles of the old Confederacy become all too common.<br /> They did lose that war, didn't they?<br /> When I was a child, lynchings were still common enough down there that they were seldom mentioned by the press,excepting the progressive press, which only Reds and traitors paid any mind.<br /> Racism is still good politics here in the redwhiteandblue,good business, too, insofar as the lower orders might be kept from organising or demanding decent public services.<br /> Like much injustice, this is not the acting out of some inevitable Greek Tragedy, rather, it is a carefully manipulated psych job, with money and power,(again), being the pay off.<br /> Don SmithAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com