Comments on: And it’s a hard reign a-gonna fall… https://habitablezone.com/2020/06/10/and-its-a-hard-reign-a-gonna-fall/ Mon, 06 Apr 2026 12:03:37 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2020/06/10/and-its-a-hard-reign-a-gonna-fall/#comment-44812 hank Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:54:42 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=82380#comment-44812 Hell, I'm a huge Ted Nugent fan. Well, at least his first album. <img src="https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/e/ef/Ted_nugent_album_cover.jpg" alt="." /> Hell, I’m a huge Ted Nugent fan. Well, at least his first album.

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]]> By: VelociraptorBlade https://habitablezone.com/2020/06/10/and-its-a-hard-reign-a-gonna-fall/#comment-44808 VelociraptorBlade Thu, 11 Jun 2020 23:37:10 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=82380#comment-44808 I'm curious where Lynard Skynard falls into this. They've espoused a "southern identity", and used to display the confederate flag during thier concerts. What do you think their take on what it means to be sourthern is? I’m curious where Lynard Skynard falls into this. They’ve espoused a “southern identity”, and used to display the confederate flag during thier concerts. What do you think their take on what it means to be sourthern is?

]]> By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2020/06/10/and-its-a-hard-reign-a-gonna-fall/#comment-44804 hank Thu, 11 Jun 2020 13:47:14 +0000 https://habitablezone.com/?p=82380#comment-44804 And take my word for it, all that crap about “History”, “Tradition” “Southern Culture” and “State’s Rights” is pious, sanctimonious humbug. Underneath it all is the bitter humiliation and unalloyed hatred of a vengeful, defeated people who know perfectly well they deserved to be humiliated and defeated. Its all about a way for them to mutter cravenly under their breath, just loud enough so only they can hear it; “Fuck you Yankee, we have a God-given right, a racial entitlement, to hate niggers and nigger-lovers and there ain’t a God-damn thing you can do about it.” Oh yeah, I know, not everyone in the South still believes that, and the sentiment has since spread to other parts of the country, distant from the Confederacy in both space and time, but that is its source and origin, in both history and geography. This iconography of flags, statues, symbols and the civic worship of Confederate heroes and holidays, are all part of the hypocritical rewriting of history that I witnessed in the public schools of the rural south in the 1950s and 60s; which began in earnest in parallel with the rise of the KKK about the turn of the century, long after the Civil War. But the Civil War wasn't about economics, or culture, industry or trade (although those factors play a role in all conflict). It was about slavery. If you have any doubt about that read the Declaration of Secession of South Carolina, the Cradle of the Confederacy, where the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter. https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp Slavery, and the need to preserve and extend it, are mentioned more often than any other issue. That's what the Confederacy was all about, the need to enslave other human beings, primarily for financial gain, and we must never forget that. The South enslaved others because the Crackers were too lazy to pick their own cotton and too cheap to pay their own countrymen a living wage to do it. It was a crime comparable to what the Nazis did in Europe and it deserves the exact same condemnation. Its been a long time since Slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Segregation, Civil Rights and all the rest, but finally the time has come when there IS a God-damn thing we can do about it. It needs to be done, now. Immediately. And take my word for it, all that crap about “History”, “Tradition” “Southern Culture” and “State’s Rights” is pious, sanctimonious humbug. Underneath it all is the bitter humiliation and unalloyed hatred of a vengeful, defeated people who know perfectly well they deserved to be humiliated and defeated. Its all about a way for them to mutter cravenly under their breath, just loud enough so only they can hear it; “Fuck you Yankee, we have a God-given right, a racial entitlement, to hate niggers and nigger-lovers and there ain’t a God-damn thing you can do about it.” Oh yeah, I know, not everyone in the South still believes that, and the sentiment has since spread to other parts of the country, distant from the Confederacy in both space and time, but that is its source and origin, in both history and geography.

This iconography of flags, statues, symbols and the civic worship of Confederate heroes and holidays, are all part of the hypocritical rewriting of history that I witnessed in the public schools of the rural south in the 1950s and 60s; which began in earnest in parallel with the rise of the KKK about the turn of the century, long after the Civil War. But the Civil War wasn’t about economics, or culture, industry or trade (although those factors play a role in all conflict). It was about slavery.

If you have any doubt about that read the Declaration of Secession of South Carolina, the Cradle of the Confederacy, where the first shots were fired at Fort Sumter.

https://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/csa_scarsec.asp

Slavery, and the need to preserve and extend it, are mentioned more often than any other issue. That’s what the Confederacy was all about, the need to enslave other human beings, primarily for financial gain, and we must never forget that. The South enslaved others because the Crackers were too lazy to pick their own cotton and too cheap to pay their own countrymen a living wage to do it. It was a crime comparable to what the Nazis did in Europe and it deserves the exact same condemnation.

Its been a long time since Slavery, the Civil War, Reconstruction, Jim Crow, Segregation, Civil Rights and all the rest, but finally the time has come when there IS a God-damn thing we can do about it. It needs to be done, now. Immediately.

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