An interesting take. I hate how politicizing terms and phrases mean something they aren't.. like states rights. I'm all for smaller, local governance since it's easy to see that people in Washington might be somewhat removed from people in Louisiana. So states rights to govern themselves as much as possible sounds pretty damn good to me.
It's a package deal, Matt. Some people certainly do use "States Rights" to mask their desire for Jim Crow legislation; others just believe in decentralized government (within limits; no state has a right to step on its citizens' rights). But by lumping ALL such people together and implying the ONLY reason to support "States Rights," someone manages the neat trick of discrediting everyone who believes in decentralized government.
By deferring a lot of governance to state and local governments, the Founding Fathers were wise. Like anything else, it can be abused. Or used in ways not everyone will agree with.
@Unseen, I'm specifically hacked off about this issue because people who take one side of it are presumptively being judged to be doing so for racist motives. Just as many people who oppose Obama are accused of doing so simply because of racism, when their real disagreement is with his policies.
This writeup seems to be implying that the only reason to oppose recent policies pushed by the Democratic party--or to be a Republican, in the South is...a desire to bash blacks. That is hideous stereotyping no one on the left would tolerate if it were being done TO any member of certain groups.
Postings on this site are cumbersome to update, because to the delayed moderation. On my personal blog I tend to tweak it a few times. For instance I added this caveat: "This is an over-simplified assessment of course because the parties are each an amalgamation of movements and interests. But I’m purposely focusing on the cultivation of institutional racism."
I'm not sure why blog comments require moderator approval but forum comments don't. Perhaps God knows, or perhaps it's built into the software. If there's a switch to turn this feature off, my opinion would be to switch it off.
Point noted, I will check this out for you.
As far as States Rights are concerned, some laws need to be limited to the state, while others must be Federal.......I think Gun Control is a great example of a State being in control , since guns are a way of life for the South and West....Whereas the Northeast and MidAtlantic states are more metropolitan and may prefer strict gun laws.....Marriage laws though need to be federal, since people in the US are quite transient, and could cause a problem for some ,as in Same Sex marriage.....Abortion laws need to be Federal as well for the same reason.....This is just my opinion...
The emerging industrial North finally replaces it's slaves with cheap immigrant labor (after a century of slavery) and endeavors to destroy the rural South's economy with the stroke of a pen. Then the North abandons the post war reconstruction and drops the ball early as many poor black sharecroppers head North to escape the extreme poverty all throughout the South....where they are hated by the very offspring of the immigrant laborers.
"I also don't believe in drugs. I don't want it near schools - I don't want it sold to children! That's an infamia. In my city, we would keep the traffic in the dark people - the colored. They're animals anyway, so let them lose their souls." The Godfather..
Archie Bunker is alive and well and is shooting black kids in the street..
"Like any historical story, you can always take another step backward to see how the previous generation set it up."
No, sorry you can't take a step backward and always land in the same footstep. The North institutionalized racism in it's powerful corporations, unions, divided neighborhoods...and the South in it's lame local governments. Either way it's racism and painting an entire region is just.....well very racist.
No, sorry you can't take a step backward and always land in the same footstep.
The past is a corpse, the passive victim of anyone with an ideology they can project on it.
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