TYT: Is The Governor of Virginia Racist? (Bonus: Cenk Debates The Issue On MSNBC)

[ihavenobias]

Run time: 02:46 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwQfiDdYMRU   Posted on YouTube: April 10, 2010 By YouTube Member: TheYoungTurks Views on YouTube: 3854   Posted on DU: April 12, 2010 By DU Member: ihavenobias Views on DU: 1127

 
Summary: Cenk talks about VA Governor Bob McDonnell's push to celebrate Confederate History Month while ignoring the issue of slavery. At the end of the video there is a direct link to Cenk debating a conservative on MSNBC.

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[MedfordTim]

1. My guess?

Um.....yes?

[activa8tr]

2. Ditto!

[Capitalocracy]

3. K&R

I don't know if it's racism or a naked appeal to racist constituents... could just as easily be both

[WhoIsNumberNone]

4. Based on McDonnell's reasoning

The next logical step would be for Germany to have Nazi History Month. They could do it in April too (Hitler's birthday is the 20th) and if (similar to what our revisionists and Confederate apologists do here) you were to remove any reference to the Holocaust, the ghettos, or Kristalnacht and just focus on all the positive thing the Nazis brought to Germany (the Autobahn, the Volkswagen, restoring the National Unity and National Pride, getting the German economy going again, etc) and then portray the war as a crusade against communism, which the german soldiers fought very bravely and tenaciously- even after after it became clear that they couldn't win in early 1943- it doesn't sound so bad, does it?

[AlbertCat]

7. The next logical step would be for Germany to have Nazi History Month.

Germany succeeded from.....what exactly?


I don't understand your logic.

Anyway... that fake flag didn't exist in the real confederacy so the flag actually equals RACISM.

[Bitwit1234]

5. He may be,,,but he also

wants to push the issue more so to prove he is a good old boy conservative republican, who supports the tea bag kkk'ers.

[20score]

6. K&R

[TankLV]

8. Anybody who DOESN'T is a racist along with that fucking governor...

The brownshirts/repukes/teabaggers are so emboldened, that they don't even try to hide it any longer - there is no fear of being ridiculed...

[florida08]

9. The confederate flag

stands for segregation:

As someone who grew up around Confederate flags and the white folks who love them (Southern by the grace of God, as they say), I can attest to this: most of these kids (and their parents) are scarcely aware of their history. They have romanticized their Confederate ancestors as noble defenders of independence, and while that’s in some sense understandable (no one likes to think poorly of their ancestors), it does ignore the fact that the Confederacy was explicitly founded on a theology of divinely-ordained white supremacy.

What’s more, even the “heritage” defense betrays a deep ignorance of history; although the Confederate flag (in various incarnations) was flown throughout Reconstruction and into the 20th century, the Confederate flag as we recognize it (the “stars and bars) didn’t come into popular use until the 1950s and the beginning of federally-mandated desegregation, where it was used primarily to signal opposition to desegregation. Insofar that it was supposed to represent Southern “heritage,” it was a sign that the flyer respected the long-standing Southern tradition of apartheid and racial violence. As historian John Hoski explains in his book on the subject, this was a pretty explicit sentiment:
http://is.gd/bqRsZ

Roy V. Harris, the recently retired speaker of the Georgia House of Representatives and editor of the Augusta Courier, minced no words in linking the threat to his embrace of the Confederate flag in 1951. ”The Confederate flag is coming to mean something to everybody now. It means the southern cause. It means the heart throbs of the people of the South. It is becoming to be the symbol of the white race and the cause of white people. The Confederate flag means segregation.”