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As a reminder, this meme sub is about the American Civil War. We're not here to insult southerners or the American South, but rather to have a laugh at the failed Confederate insurrection and those that chose to represent it.
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When someone argues "States rights" you just respond "State's rights to do what?" Rights are specific things, not some general term. It isn't unreasonable to ask for specificity.
— Malcom X 1965
— John Ehrlichman, to Dan Baum for Harper's Magazine in 1994, about President Richard Nixon's war on drugs, declared in 1971
What Runaway Slave Act, Sir?
That's part of the constitution
I think more photos like this should be widely disseminated. People nowadays seem to remember a sanitized version of the civil rights movement and act like it just politely asked to be treated better and then white people said yes and then it was over. I think the average person should see more moments like this and the determined way the segregationists fought to keep things the way they were.
People will point to MLK and talk about his nonviolence and peaceful protests. And yes the man himself was about that. But the people who he was protesting against did not prescribe to that philosophy.
A states right to beat up black people I guess
It was about STATES rights. Not black folk right.
That's got to be the cringest party name I ever heard about
Bobby Lee was a fucking traitor BTW. Dr King is someone worth listening to. But fuck Bobby Lee.
What about his rights?
sCarolina articles of Secession specifically whined about states rights. More specifically northern states actually having a say in what happens in their states re: slavery.
That must have been a sticking point. Basically their Constitution was a copy/pasta of the Union one, but the removal of a states Right. You had to allow slavery, and enforce it.