South Carolina GOP Party - Whites dress as Confederates/Blacks Dress as Slaves

[blogslut]

From http://www.fitsnews.com/2010/09/14/how-republicans-party/">fitsnews via http://www.oliverwillis.com/national/2010/09/14/south-carolina-republicans-dress-up-in-confederate-gear-blacks-in-slave-clothes/">Oliver Willis:

The National Federation of Republican Women (NFRW) held its annual fall Board of Directors meeting in Charleston, S.C. last weekend – a decision the organization is likely regretting after several controversial pictures from one of the meeting’s sponsored events began surfacing on the internet.

One of the pictures shows S.C. Senate President Glenn McConnell - who FITS readers will recall enjoys dressing up as a Confederate General – posing in his Rebel garb with a pair of African-Americans dressed in, um, “antebellum” attire.

The event in question – dubbed “The Southern Experience” – was held last Friday evening at the Country Club of Charleston. Hosted by the South Carolina Federation of Republican Women, it was included on the national conference’s official itinerary.

In addition to McConnell, S.C. Gov. Mark Sanford attended (and spoke at) the event – although it was not listed on his weekly public schedule. S.C. Republican Attorney General nominee Alan Wilson also attended....

(The set of photos are at the fitsnews link. Normally I would download an image and serve it myself but I just can't bring myself to do it this time.)

[KingFlorez]

1. They aren't racist

Really, they aren't.

[toddwv]

22. Well, we know that the Republicans want to take the country back.

This seems a bit too far back if you ask me.

[customerserviceguy]

2. Historical re-enactments are a part of teaching the past to future generations

And accuracy is important. Black people were slaves, whites were not, how would showing it any other way be true?

[blogslut]

4. You didn't read a word of this topic past the title

Did you?

[mitchum]

8. I've seen those well-fed crackers with their confederate army reenactments...

very few of them ever look as if they have been living on ground squirrel and tree bark. I guess their reverence for accuracy has a limit.

[customerserviceguy]

14. And that limit would be that the re-enactors on both sides

live in a modern society. I don't know anybody who lives exactly as people did 150 years ago, do you?

[mitchum]

23. Do the Union reenactors fetishize it like the crackers (who also seem to ...

think exactly like people did 150 years ago)?

[HubertHeaver]

12. The National Federation of Republican Women's Board

of Directors Meeting was not an historical re-enactment.

[izquierdista]

26. How can you be so sure?

Republicans seem to want the whole country to re-enact the Gilded Age.

[marmar]

18. And exactly what historical re-enactment was this?

nt

[mitchum]

24. The 1980 Republican Convention?

[MineralMan]

21. So you're saying these people have it all right, and that it's a good

think they're doing? Really? Did you even read the article? Feh!

[bluestateguy]

3. Kind of like those Old South balls they do in many Southern fraternities and sororities

A big circle jerk for them all to reminisce about the "old ways" that they crave to go back to.

[mitchum]

13. And most of them would have been staring at the ass end of a mule from sunup to sundown...

during those "good old days" Idiots with a re-imagined past.

[Botany]

5. Oh for the love of God .... “The Southern Experience”

Gov. Sanford himself :puke:

BTW how quick till we hear the "out of context" line?

[mitchum]

11. The southern experience? What is that? Having hookworm and pellgra?

[mitchum]

6. Glenn McConnell. The lifelong bachelor. Who owns an antique store. In Charleston.

[KamaAina]

10. Are you casting asparagus again?

:shrug:

[lunasun]

19. and likes dressing up in uniforms

[tanyev]

7. That link doesn't identify the happy slaves.

I've got to wonder if they are active local GOP members, or if they were actors brought in to provide an "authentic" experience.

[aquart]

15. They are identified as paid re-enactors who work the riverboats.

They're entertainers. Not volunteers.

[Blue_Tires]

28. i know everybody has to eat, but

no amount of money in this universe is enough to buy back your dignity and honor after THAT shit....

[craigmatic]

9. And they call Obama anti-American. These assholes want to go back to a time when blacks were

property.

[TK421]

16. I have an image to show them...actually, I have a few of them

It seems to me that some idiots need a constant reminder of who won the Civil War....and I'm sure it just burns them up inside....and that makes me happy.

Still, here we are, 2010 with the same fucking mindset, neanderthals, some...stuck in time, refusing to accept the fact that your side lost....GET THE FUCK OVER IT, YOU IGNORANT PRICKS!!!! No matter how much you wave your flag, you lost!!! YOU LOST!!!!!


I'll say it again....YOU LOST!!!!!!!!!

[Bigmack]

17. Next year they're going to do a re-enactment...

of the Fort Pillow Massacre...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Pillow

The South lost. 600,000 Americans died in that fucking war. Nostalgia and re-enactments are in the worst of taste.

[lunasun]

20. waxing for the 'good 'ol days' no doubt ugh

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[struggle4progress]

25. Sure got a warm spot in their lil ole heart for that Ownership Society, don't they?

[agentS]

27. Wow....why don't they just run a Hitler Appreciation Day while they're at it?

Or better yet, a "chase the runaway slave" event? Because they ain't far from it.