The South “Rises Again” in the Republican Party

 

The revocation of segregation of Plessy v. Fergusen in 1896 with Brown v. Board of Education in 1954 signaled an ominous threat to social conservatives that fated year. Even more ominous, Civil Rights and the Voting Rights Act ten years later gave African-Americans finally equal voting status as citizens in the United States. Democratic President Lyndon Baines Johnson signed this act while also telling his aides that they just lost the South for a generation – ostensibly to the Republicans. It lasted for far more than a generation! For the next half-century and more, Republicans legislated consistently against FDR’s New Deal and essentially acted toward stopping the changing demographics that threatened their majority. These angry Southern Democrats saw no choice but to predictably side with Republican President Richard Millhouse Nixon when he made history for his party in 1968 with the success of the “Southern Strategy.” The traditional Southerner and American racist had taken many hits on their old socially-conservative White Supremacy and developed a vicious hatred for the Democratic Party – now seen as the “Negro Party.” Some Southerners hoped to arrest “Negro Rule” development by forming the Dixiecrat Party, but it was short-lived and ineffective. They soon recognized that their brand of conservatism – ideologically in line with fascist oligarchs who tried to overthrow FDR in 1933 – could best survive within the Republican Party. Nixon made it happen – the old Confederacy, still angry and unyielding, found great power once again. Almost overnight, socially conservative Southern Democrats – some, members of the Ku Klux Klan – had switched to the GOP. This led to an ominous future: as more and more Republicans took on the old Southern policies of religiously-focused, anti-government “states’-rights.” The South truly “Rose Again” and joined with Republican fascists, once exposed by the Business Plot of 1933! It’s hard to ignore when twenty-eight of the fifty-three current Republican senators (2019) are from traditionally Southern states of the old Confederacy and all others but one are from western rural states – ideologically in lock-step with Southern conservatives.

Republicans slowly morphed into an even more criminal party than they were already! Richard Nixon’s impeachment in 1974 was for actual crimes committed – violations of the U.S. Constitution – firing of investigators and attempting to cover up a break-in of the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate Hotel! Nixon was the first to invite Southern White Supremacists into his Republican Party; and, he was the first Republican president ever brought up on criminal charges and tried for impeachment. Coincidence? Probably not. It should be remembered that Southern conservatives have never respected anything about United States’ federalism, democracy, or laws. They especially despised the U.S. Constitution which restricted their ancestors’ brutal taste for slave-driven capitalism. Arguably, these West-Indian descendants preferred only one constitution – the Confederate States Constitution with “God” used in place of “creator.” This conclusion is derived from complex political machinations since 1968 and can only be treated properly in a book or volumes of books. Furthermore, any of the plethora of books written about the highly criminal Trump Administration of today would surely suffice!

Crimes of the Republican Party did not stop with Nixon’s impeachment – they got worse. Under the conservative “unitary executive theory,” the office of president controlled increasingly more power until it reached near dictatorship! Vice President Dick Cheney’s Halliburton during the Iraq War made over $39.5 billion, reflecting actions of the earlier rampant capitalist abuses of oligarchs of whom Gen. Smedley Butler wrote in War is a Racket; this was the “military-industrial complex” later warned about by Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower – in a betrayal of his Republican Party’s policies, by the way. Later, in a serious conflict of interest, it was revealed that Halliburton “gave [Cheney] a $34 million signing bonus to become vice president of the United States."[1] The Bush Administration then was found to have faked evidence of Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD) by Iraq’s leader, Saddam Hussein, to start a war with that country – again, making profit for Dick Cheney’s Halliburton and others. We nearly revisited this same “Wag the Dog” scenario with Iran when Donald J. Trump assassinated – without clear cause – their very important Major General Qasem Soleimani of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. Dick Cheney was also instrumental in pushing forward the policy of a “unitary executive” or making the president a virtual dictator! Brutal Southern ex-slavers made an ideal companion for fascist oligarchs – profit flowed like Spanish doubloons into their coffers and overflowed into their overseas bank accounts! War is, indeed, a racket, Gen. Butler – when conducted by these racist megacorporate criminals and politicians – land pirates extraordinaire!

Most of us generally regard piracy in the past as an undesirable thing. Still, why do we place eighteenth-century piracy in a “Golden Age;” why do we covet a time of greed and excess? Why do we still allow Wall Street the legal latitude, corporate taxpayer subsidies, the ability to outsource jobs, and store massive profits in offshore accounts to avoid taxation – especially while other countries are jailing bankers and other capitalists for similar abuses across the world? Why don’t the people recognize this as corruption? It’s because we grew up in it – our very culture is criminal!

We are allowed to ignore our brutal piratical ancestry because, as one scholar put it, “Progressive Era reformers and twenty-first-century economists think about corruption in a way that is, in one critical dimension, 180 degrees removed from the concept  of  corruption  that  prevailed  until  the mid-nineteenth century.”[2] Still, venturing from the concept of venal (money focus or “treasure-seeking”) to systematic corruption (broader political focus), as economic historian John Joseph Wallis puts it, is when America gets to a point similar to that of eighteenth-century liberally-oppressive Stuart conservative status. In his view, “The survival of a systematically corrupt government depends on limiting access to markets and resources in order to create rents that bind the interests of the ruling coalition [or oligarchy] together.”[3] He explained:

 

In polities plagued with systematic corruption [like piratical hegemony], a group of politicians deliberately create rents by limiting entry into valuable economic activities, through grants of monopoly, restrictive corporate charters, tariffs, quotas, regulations, and the like. These rents bind the interests of the recipients to the politicians who create them. The purpose is to build a coalition that can dominate the government. Manipulating the economy for political ends is systematic corruption… In contrast, venal corruption [for example, manipulating Virginia’s politics for Alexander Spotswood’s own private interests against Blackbeard or Donald J. Trump’s extortion of Ukraine for his campaign needs] denotes the pursuit of private economic interests through the political process.[4]

 

The best example today of systemic v. venal corruption would be the piratical rise of the highly corrupt Republican Party (systemic) to extreme levels – that of the greedy, immoral, and dishonest Donald J. Trump (venal) and the use of his office to enrich himself and his sycophants. Trump exposed the criminality of the Republican Party simply because he turned corruption back into a personal (venal) political tool. Still, the systemic corruption of the modern Republican Party, taking Russian campaign money and from other dictatorial regimes, allowed for Trump’s own rise to “unitarian” power, threatening the “separation of powers” of the U.S. Constitution and our very Democracy itself!

Republicans today behave as if they’re pirating our national ship to later cut us loose in a torn and crippled vessel! Then again, they see little choice, for the changing demographics are forcing the dominant white male from politics! As a result, they completely ignore any semblance of patriotic duty or traditional mores – even siding with and taking money from America’s greatest enemy of the Cold War – Russia! White House Chief of Staff John Kelly, by way of an openly venal example, promoted radical and draconian immigration policies on the Southern border. With seeming little concern for consequence, he later leaves his public office and joins the board of a corporation that benefits from that same policy![5] It appears that Republican government is now so openly diseased that politicians simply grab what spoils they can before America finally succumbs to the contagion or Russian control.

In 2015, former Democratic President Jimmy Carter reflected upon the rising systemic corruption of the GOP (although he tactfully did not point fingers) and that America had become an “oligarchy, with unlimited political bribery.”[6] He made reference to the results of white-supremacist conservative resurgence following the Civil Rights Act of 1964. As far as today’s racist GOP sees it, a nation that allowed “Negro Rule” – as with Barack Obama from 2009-2016 – deserves to die anyway. Southern-infected Republican politicians are giving up on their nation because of the ancient diseases of racism and greed – and, if you remember the founding Routledges of South Carolina, Southerners have never been that committed to it from the start!

Since Civil Rights, America had been dominated by racially-tinged Republican anti-liberal policy. Their customary adherence to Constitutionality only when it suited their politically corrupt agenda is clearly telling. The usual oath of office means little when securing corrupt control over the federal government. Essentially, the era of FDR’s New Deal that followed the Great Depression of 1929 was a short progressive blip on America’s overwhelmingly conservative and greedy political radar – the results of being founded originally as a “Commonwealth of Pyrates!” Even FDR’s solitary progressive itinerary was nearly arrested by a fascist attempt of corporate leaders to overthrow democracy in 1933 in the “Business Plot” – yes, by the ancestors of President Carter’s reputed modern corporate oligarchs![1] America’s wealthy have never truly respected the all-encompassing and immigrant-welcoming notion of our original “E Pluribus Unum” or “from the many, one” – essentially, a perfect definition of democracy. “Negro Rule” again reared its ugly head in 1898, again in 1964, and again in 2016. America quickly returned to its formerly oligarchic conservative – but, also white-supremacist – control. The final leg of that racist trend, President Barack Obama’s terms from 2009-2016 initiated yet another wholly corrupt Republican coup over “E Pluribus Unum.” Perhaps some reflection may be warranted upon the 1950s replacement of “In God We Trust” over the more democratic original motto. Thanks to Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, Civil Rights of 1964, and their “Southern Strategy” of 1968, Republicans have fully embraced the “god of the slavemaster” and gave up completely on the secular “E Pluribus Unum,” as endowed by their ethereal “Creator.”

Do American elections – when trusted – still provide a choice between “lesser of two evils” or is this merely the impression politically provided by Republican anti-liberal – especially in the Trump Era: anti-socialist – rhetoric? Quite ironically, it almost always seems that liberals are rhetoricized as “radicals,” “socialists” (here conservatives actually imply “communists”), or the enemies of the American people even though FDR gave us the most popular social program ever and saved America from the ravages of the conservatives who actually started the problem by crashing the economy! This is essentially the same fascist method employed in Adolf Hitler’s propaganda in 1930s Germany, or Donald Trump’s usual rhetoric in hour-long diatribes before the cameras, or that of the Family’s Samuel A’Court Ashe against Blackbeard or pirates in general – to accuse your enemies of exactly that which you yourself are guilty! Google “Joseph Goebbels.”  

“We the People” do not resist merely to allow control by another wealthy or corporate “Great Man” (most certainly white male) like those of old historical and traditional narrative. Like Edward Moseley or Maurice Moore, they achieved their greatness and immense wealth by any method necessary, no matter how corrupt – even if they must murder a business associate like Edward Thache. Compare this with almost any of Donald Trump’s policies – directly with the assassination of Iran’s Soleimani. More especially contrast this with Trump’s taking of children from their mothers and put in cages, only to be sold and farmed out to rich slave owners. Compare this to allowing an American journalist to be killed and chopped up by Saudi Arabians, Trump’s favoritism of Russian president Vladimir Putin, his betrayal of Kurd allies in Syria, or encouraging his followers to seek and destroy the whistleblowers exposing these crimes! This is the epitome of fascism and corruption!

Still, these criminals impress our conservatives – perhaps like Al Capone, Vlad the Impaler, or Genghis Khan. We grew up hearing of past Republicans’ great exploits and endeavors since the Civil War, their trials and tribulations, their successes and their many bankruptcies – destroying our economy with their greed, inevitably resulting in yet another frequent economic recession. They spew rhetoric from two sides of their mouths, Janus-faced - they are our “Heroick and Active Spirits,” our worshiped champions of industry – these oligarchs – these pirates – they are our modern Drakes! Some of us still dream of being like them one day. We have been weaned on capitalistic dreams of fishing treasure from the water, taking it away from other entrepreneurs, and picking them clean to leave them destitute and in fear of their lives in the gutters. “Nothing personal – it’s just business!”

Again, this is unnatural. It is not human nature. It is merely criminal and it must stop!

Today, progressives fight against great odds – against such piratical forces of corporate oligarchy and privatization who would continue to pick us clean – without “trickling-down” of riches to the people. You may have heard that pirates tend not to share. They prey upon not only other merchants and those of darker skin: ex-slaves, and Native Americans, but against everyone – the poor or lower-middle class mainstream – the 97% or so of citizens who only recently received the franchise without having to purchase property for the right to vote. They resent that all of the 97% now have the vote. Remember Jamaicans in the early eighteenth century who ousted their governor – the “landed” gentlemen who once preyed upon the “landless,” unpropertied, or poor common people?

In this corporate-dominated corrupt environment, justice – even democracy itself – become merely commodities to be traded or sold at market – like slaves – in exchange for more dominance and political control. Money can buy almost anything and corporate capitalists prefer systemically-corrupt oligarchy – a government truly of their own – not to live under constraint of democratic rules and regulations. They prefer to call the shots alone – like Donald Trump’s making unilateral dictatorial decisions without consult – without the consent of the people. But, then, Republicans wished to lord over the people as in Carnegie’s seemingly beneficent and parental Gospel of Wealth or “Trickle-down” ideology, as if they might better care for the people than their own democratically-elected government! Edward Thache, however, was a different man from these Republicans of today. He most certainly would not have made the same decisions as Donald Trump. He would not have assassinated anyone or bribed someone for political advantage. He would not have withdrawn troops formerly aiding American-allied Kurdish rebels; a monstrous decision that led to Turkish and Russian forces driving them to their slaughter and taking their land. Even Blackbeard would have seen this as simply another betrayal. The man Republicans favor most was Stede Bonnet – the man Edward “Blackbeard” Thache rejected!

The wealthy have always misunderstood human nature – because they behaved so not like humans. Carnegie’s Gospel of Wealth abused the people personally by wrongly accusing them of being completely self-interested – innately selfish – a “pirate” from birth. Capitalists wrongly assure the people that in order to keep everyone from being abused by their neighbors that we should all be as greedy and selfish as them; but, this is not a scientific fact – rather a capitalist myth – humans are not inherently greedy. As the lords of wealth prophesize, money provides and it can taketh away! Our American lords assure us that they need fewer rules or regulations in order to grab the wealth. But, deregulation engenders systemic corruption, abuse, inequality, and trade monopolies. De-regulation – when government is seen as the “problem” rather than the solution – when individual self-interest is elevated above the good of society as a whole – when political favors are exchanged for money and power – when “absolute freedom” of that ruling class becomes the freedom of absolute rulers and dictators, like Saddam Hussein, Moamar Gaddafi, and now, Donald Trump – selfishly maximizing profit and profit alone without care for the people.

America’s first president, George Washington believed that party politics or divisions might serve immediate ends, but they inevitably lead to corruption. He could easily envision systemic corruption or oligarchy that plagues America today because of British monarchial corruption of his day – he saw it personally. Abuse leads to more abuse. Unchecked venal builds to systemic corruption. Piracy leads to crony capitalism. The past progresses to the present and the present can degrade back into the past – history can indeed repeat itself, echo, burp – whatever you’d like to call it. Despite our narrative of progress, the excessive greed of today’s politics, systemic corruption in government, is certainly much worse than the venal – or the simple stealing of resources for your own or for your associates’ use – like piracy of the Golden Age. The actions of anti-immigrant Donald J. Trump today reflect the actions of wealthy gentleman pirate and Barbadian sugar plantation owner, Major Stede Bonnet – not so much Royal Navy veteran Edward Thache of St. Jago de la Vega, Jamaica. Still, Thache generally left enough food and water for his victims to return home – even the hated Catholics of France and Spain – Qasam Soleimani wasn’t so lucky!

The Republican Party of today that clearly supports President Trump’s corruption without hesitation – and Trump has given them significant reason to hesitate – is best understood as a body engaged in a broader, systemic corruption to pirate American government. Fox News as the state media mouthpiece for Trump’s MAGA or “Make America Great Again” rhetoric is the same as the Raleigh News and Observer newspaper serving as the mouthpiece for the racist conservative retrenchment in North Carolina of 1898. Fox News merely needed the “Fairness Doctrine” eliminated to begin the temporal regression backwards. MAGA with its dependence on “alternate facts” and rejection of the so-called “fake news” mainstream media is so little different than “Capt. Charles Johnson” or Nathaniel Mist’s counterfactual literary invention in A General History of 1724! They both rely on lies and misdirection portrayed as reality. Thache may even have liked Trump – for a short while – but he would have soon taught the pedantic Trump a lesson in manners! After all, Thache had done the same to the privileged and pedantic Stede Bonnet!

The lessons we have learned from history are enormously valuable – if we pay attention to them. These lessons of the past, from the Lords Proprietors of Carolina, are meaningful today; they show us that the old Stuart ways are way overdue for cancellation – there is little social unity without democratic government. It is meaningless to even propose a “union” without unity. Channeling George Washington, Thomas Jefferson also warned us of the greediness that threatened our nascent union – largely unrealized today. Jefferson wrote in 1825 to William Branch Giles of a "vast accession of strength from their younger recruits, who having nothing in them of the feelings or principles of ’76 now look to a single and splendid government of an Aristocracy, founded on banking institutions and monied in corporations under the guise and cloak of their favored branches of manufactures commerce and navigation, riding and ruling over the plundered ploughman and beggared yeomanry."[2] Our democracy was shanghaied by these monied corporations nearly from the start. And, they’re still attempting to hold control over the nation!

The only difference between a rebellion and a revolution is who wins in the end. “History is written by the winners.” And yet another comparison may be that the difference between a privateer and a pirate is who profits from the theft and how. In America, “beyond the line,” profit transcended national loyalty, making capitalism into an issue of personal freedom – at most, the piracies of Edward Thache and even Donald J. Trump were the “venal” lesser of the systemic corruption of the Republican Party since 1964. At least Edward Thache expressed some loyalty to his “country” of Jamaica – similar to Jefferson’s love of his country – Virginia!

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[1] Jules Archer, The Plot to Seize the White House (New York: Skyhorse Publishing, 1973).

[2] Thomas Jefferson to William Branch Giles, December 26, 1825.

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[1][1] Louis Jacobson, “Chris Matthews says Cheney got $34 million payday from Halliburton” (May 24, 2010), Politifact.

[2] John Joseph Wallis, “The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American History,” Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's

Economic History (University of Chicago Press, 2006), 24.

[3]Ibid.

[4]Ibid., 25.

[5] "John Kelly Cashes in on Child Separation Policy He Pushed," Crew (9 May 2019).

[6] Jon Schwarz, “Jimmy Carter: The U.S. Is an “Oligarchy With Unlimited Political Bribery,”The Intercept, 30 Jul 2015, https://theintercept.com/2015/07/30/jimmy-carter-u-s-oligarchy-unlimited-political-bribery/ (accessed 28 Feb 2017).

Deep South “Piracy”

 

Most shockingly, but unsurprisingly, paired with the new practice of capitalist “piracy” or crime was the continuation of West Indian slavery, plantation production, and its accompanying Herrenvolk, or master race ideology. Southern agricultural capitalists and their “god of the slavemaster” disdained even the thinnest veil of morality in favor of personal profit. Edward Kimber’s accounts appeared in the pages of the London Magazine in the 1740s. He toured through and commented upon the rough American colonies and their crude methods. He pictured slavery in the form of an African "under the Torture of the Whip, inflicted by the Hands, the remorseless Hands of an American Planter.”^[1] The report of Brown University’s Steering Committee on “Slavery and Justice” found that “Of the ten million or so people who crossed the Atlantic before 1800, about eight and a half million – roughly six of every seven people – were enslaved Africans.”^[2] The transfer of African peoples and culture grew immense. Sugar, slaves, piracy, and American capitalism evolved in an even deeper sea of bloody, fundamentalist religious, slavery-supporting rhetoric designed to salve the soul - to justify the self-inflicted horrors that kept them up at night. They created the white-supremacist “god of the slavemaster.”

Only the most foolhardy, arrogant, and durable souls would brave disease, the sea, weather, and heat in such a rough and deadly business. Also, it was immensely more profitable than any venture yet tried. It proved the pecuniary value of ignoring morality which encouraged even further separation from England and English tradition – including the god they claimed to worship. This also encouraged a virtual separation from traditional Christian virtues, especially the hated Catholicism of old Europe.

Human nature devolved into something less than compassionate, natural and friendly. Instead, through demeaning rhetoric, it became seen as inherently greedy and self-serving. This delusion supported merchants’ needs for capitalization of these slaves and their work. Primarily Southerners believed “Inherently lazy, listless” people, especially slaves, deserved to be frightened into productivity.^[3] Social underlings must “pull themselves up by their bootstraps” to succeed or die trying. Indeed, wealthy American merchants became cynical of their own species by way of tautological and religious justification for their own convoluted immoral methods – the vengeful Old-Testament “god of the slavemaster” reigned supreme in the South. One might think that all of American society – both young and old – continuously warred with one another – fighting for profit! And, it would take many lives over the next century and a half!

The lines separating America from Britain grew into a wall with thorny vines growing densely upon it and filling the remaining holes – surrounded by Donald Trump’s alligator-filled moat and topped with spikes! Americans would fight to maintain their unique culture on their side of that wall – imperialistic and warlike – ideological royal domain of the Western Hemisphere established by the “Monroe Doctrine,” similar to the earlier Carolina charter of 1665. The isolationism, a war of radical liberal versus “godly” conservative ideology, Whig vesrsus Tory, progressive versus fixed, began at this point. And, as if warned by South Carolina’s John Routledge in 1789, the ideologically similar “War Between the States,” existed since the founding of Carolina and would never quite be decisive – a continuous war between Americans. The days of old Stuart or West Indian values, indeed the values that built early colonial America and continued in the Southern United States, fortified in the Confederate States of America of the 1860s, would remain until the present, converging with Republican Party conservative interests in 1968. America could neither quite be brought to heel by her mother, nor by themselves, always at each other’s throats like unruly spawn fighting over religion, slaves, and states’ rights. Roughly half of Americans found the old ways too severe. More northern colonies had the weakest connection to the brutal and feudal West Indies plantationists; thus, the old Stuart ideology was best exemplified and reified in the Deep South. Society there descended directly from the Stuart-born West Indian ideology of Barbados, “an oligarchy of acquisitive, ostentatious plantation owners” who modeled Carolina after Barbadian society.^[4] It proved a stubborn and persistent presence.

Inferring a West Indies connection to Carolina and Deep South culture, historian Richard Dunn said, “I believe that a social analysis of Barbados and Jamaica, circa 1670, does tell us something about the Goose Creek men and the thrust they imparted to South Carolina.”^[5] Furthermore, Lindley S. Butler ominously surmises that “The turbulent Carolina proprietary era covers the fascinating first century of North Carolina’s history, its formative years, and sets the course for the colony and state over the next three centuries.”^[6] Carolina, as the mother of the South, spread this same ideology throughout southern America. Slavery and piracy wove themselves indelibly into the fabric of our nation like a chronic violent disease.

The days of proprietary or private corruption lingered, continuing Stuart days of imperialism. Plantationist Confederate land barons embraced this same martial ideology in the Civil War and fired upon Fort Sumter to announce their decision to fight their “brothers” and “sisters” for it. They enjoyed smaller local control over larger federal control in a loose confederation of the early British colonies – at one time seen as separate “countries.” The South eschewed isolationism from the start – even before the Revolution. The Civil War saw resurgence of these martial independent ideals in the Confederacy, finally ending in their “Lost Cause” from which they claimed they would “rise again” against the hated Yankees of the North. Essentially, they attempted in that war to derail progressive radicalism in the form of abolitionism, establish a god-centered government, and protect their lucrative business of slavery. Compare these ideals to those of Jacobites of 1715 and the Republican Party since Richard Nixon’s “Southern Strategy” to bring in more Republican voters in 1968! Like their Jacobite ancestors who fought against a foreign “Dutch Dog” of a liberal king, the Confederacy literally betrayed the United States, commited true treason – as allowed by the U.S. Constitution – colluded with foreign governments, and killed 600,000 Americans. These people were sacrificed to preserve that immoral, yet highly profitable way of life – some say the figure was as high as 800,000! Make no mistake, despite the rhetoric of a god-centered Confederacy, the South attempted to maintain their immoral rights to enslave other human beings simply for profit! Moreover, wealthy Southern plantationists prosecuting the war were willing to kill more than half a million people to keep that right. They used their “god” to justify it all! This bit of capitalism was certainly not in its finest moment – if indeed it ever had one.

After losing the American Civil War of the mid-nineteenth century, unrepentant ex-Confederates politically opposed Reconstruction or reform efforts, vowing to “rise again.” Of course, not all Southerners can be blamed for this crime – the 97% merely followed the lead of their “betters,” the 3% wealthy elite – they deserved most of the blame. Their vengeance centered primarily upon profit loss on their plantations and the loss of slaves – indeed, considered their property! After incurring this perceived injustice against their property rights and losing their economic dominance, neo-Confederates following the war resisted any change – often out of spite. This “Lost Cause” desire affected civil rights of ex-slaves and installed racial segregation with Plessy v. Ferguson in 1896. More directly and ominously, it initiated the resurgence of conservative rule in North Carolina of 1898, resulting in the only coup d’etat in United States’ history, led by a former U.S. Congressman! Wilmington’s Alfred Moore Waddell and his allies fought to prevent the horrifying enforcement of “Negro Rule,” as they saw it, heavily enforced upon a stubborn South, with their greatly wounded feudal pride. Plantationists sought a redress of grievances to cure its wounded elite socially conservative ideology – against another perceived invasion at the hands of federals and liberal abolitionists – England come again! The Herrenvolk or master-slave mentality had been too well established, first in the West Indies, and later in the plantation South for them to ever seriously entertain a moral alternative. Again, the wealthy plantationists perpetrated this crime – not the general populace.^[7]

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[1] Edward Kimber, Itinerant Observations in America, ed. Kevin J. Hayes (Newark, Del., 1998), 49.

[2] Brown University Steering Committee on Slavery and Justice, Slavery and Justice, 7.

[3] Ralph E. Luker, The Social Gospel in Black and White: American Racial Reform, 1885-1912 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1991), 120.

[4] Woodard, American Nations, 82.

[5] Richard Dunn, “The English Sugar Islands and the Founding of South Carolina,” South Carolina Historical Magazine, Vol. 101, No. 2 (April 2000), 143.

[6]Lindley S. Butler, “Proprietary North Carolina: Politics, Shipping, and Pirates,” Queen Anne’s Revenge Shipwreck Project: Research Report and Bulletin Series, QAR-R-07-03, August 2007 (Underwater Archaeology Branch, Office of State Archaeology, Department of Cultural Resources, State of North Carolina), 5.

[7] For more on this period of American history, see LeRae Umfleet, A Day of Blood: the 1898 Wilmington Race Riot (Raleigh: North Carolina Office of Archives and History, 2009).

First Ever Biography of North Carolina's Edward Moseley

 

Defining North Carolina

A Political Sketch & Biography of Surveyor-General Edward Moseley

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Introducing the Genesis of the Confederacy and of today's Maga:

In 1724, Charles Johnson referred to America as "A Commonwealth of Pyrates." Even three centuries later, we still endeavor to live up to that reputation. Edward Moseley, born in the civilized world of seventeenth-century London, set the standard for America's criminal behavior - even as he literally defined the state of North Carolina. 

Edward Moseley - not the typical immigrant to America - fell into Carolina’s corrupt “Family” political syndicate, most of whom came from the island of Barbados - a “bedeviled” Caribbean sugar factory where the inhabitants practiced the most brutal slavery. His South Carolina in-laws had been forged in that devilish island “beyond the lines of amity” - very much the antithesis of the civilized Europe Moseley knew in London. In that ancient European city, as the orphaned son of a wealthy but defeated Tory family suffering from political defeat in the Glorious Revolution, he attended the coveted Royal Mathematical Academy. Moseley learned mathematics of such learned men as Sir Isaac Newton and the first Astronomer Royal John Flamsteed. 

England - as Barbados - unfortunately lacked in the greatly-coveted commodity of real estate - the key to freeholdship, public office, and power! America, presumed an untouched wilderness, by contrast, possessed boundless acres of land, spreading for thousands of miles in every cardinal direction. That treasure had only to be cleansed of heathen natives who knew nothing of the Anglican God or land ownership. Vast American estates offered privileged gentlemen and educated mathematicians like Moseley the chance for real power - a restoration of their Stuart Tory glory! America would then beckon to them - a glowing treasure that downtrodden English freeholders like Edward Moseley craved! Conservative outcasts like Moseley abused the people, land, and the law! Educated in the use of the sextant and astrolabe, they engaging in crude criminal methods found unacceptable at home in England. While initially, America existed merely as a “breadbasket” for the slaving Barbadians of his adopted Carolina Family, it offered Edward Moseley so much more – a chance to realize immense real wealth and to restore his politically conservative English family's empire! We remember Moseley for his maps, but that was not all that he did! Edward Moseley dreamed of making conservatives great again in America and no laws would stop him!

Racism - the Door is Now WIDE Open

"My own Southern mother recently called me a 'full-fledged Democrat,' but the flying spit and venom made it feel like 'Damn Yankee!'.. a phrase I have heard come from her lips on many an occasion! Earlier, she called me a 'died-in-the-wool Democrat' which has a specifically Confederate meaning.. Rebel wool uniforms were grey because they couldn't afford the blue die that the Union could, thus... a died wool uniform was worn by a Yankee."

Key point for Trump's Confederate fans: Democrat = Yankee

This is what Trump has brought to full fruition! This is also what Civil War did to us the first time... not surprisingly over the same damned White Supremacist issues!

My mother and her family are from an area of North Carolina which I have researched for many years.. the Lower Cape Fear - an area that retained more of a South Carolina flavor than the rest of the state.

As I grew up, I had witnessed many clues to the white-supremacy of this region and have often felt the hatred and resentment of the old war had never died.

Understand that the Old South had never truly relinquished any significant amount of sovereign supremacy to the Union - the United States of America after 1865. You may have heard, as I have many times, that "The South Will Rise Again!" This is the cultural stubbornness that I witnessed on those many trips from my home in Fayetteville (a large city) to the rural Lower Cape Fear (LCF) to see my grandmother - we all have seen it in the plethora of Confederate statues at courthouses across the United States! Understand that this is virtual worship of a defeated traitorous nation.. on our current government soil! It would be merely uncomfortable anywhere else, but outrageous on government property!

Why did we allow this? I'll never quite understand that... 

Illustrating Southern intransigence, there comes another personal tale. I once lived about two years with my cousin in the LCF, and my cousin had an aunt on the paternal side - descended from the aristocratic Hollingsworths in the Duplin-Pender County area. She was visiting with us one day when a guy I worked with in Wilmington (a large city in the LCF) had stopped by to tell me something. This fellow - I'll call him "John" - had always seemed like anyone else, regardless of his color (he was of African American descent). He, too, was from the Pender County area where we then lived.

As soon as John walked through the front door and saw the aristocratic iconic Southern woman - like Scarlett O'Hara - in all her glorified Southern majesty -minus the mint julep - in the center of the room, he immediately began to behave differently. They had obviously known each other.

Remember, I worked with John for months and he behaved like everyone else, so his mutation into... this something truly archaic was unbelievable!

I looked at him like he was a different person... had John lost his mind??! He was genuflecting strongly, his voice had altered to something resembling that of a child, or at least something quite subservient, and he was repeating the phrase "Yes, Miss Pearl, why it's good to see you Miss Pearl." The oddest part.. he sounded like a 19th century slave on the plantation!!! My cousin (from Fort Lauderdale, Florida) and I were both shocked that his demeanor would have changed so drastically.

After John left, the aristocratic Pender County socialite woman announced to us all - in a surprisingly tender way - that John had "always been such a nice young nigger boy!"

My citified mind went: Wham!!! John was 60 years old!!! The LCF was a virtual time capsule! But, it wasn't just in the LCF...

This was the paternal sense of white supremacy that has always pervaded the South - ever since Carolina was founded in 1671 by crude slaving Barbadians. Southerners of that ideology absolutely cannot see any other way to be! For them, whites are designated by God himself to rule over Blacks, Hispanics, Indians, and anyone else of color - until the end of time - which they would gladly welcome over "Negro Rule!"

 

My mother and her family have marinated in this hateful ideology all their lives. And, the election of Barack Obama to two terms as president of the United States simply confirmed to them how USA has defied God and his divine order! It is no surprise that these vengeful white supremacists elected Donald Trump - a man more like their biblical version of the "Anti-Christ" or "Deceiver," or "Man of Sin" in Revelations. Compare this "White Jesus" or Satan with the Socialist Jesus of Matthew 14, who fed the hungry, housed the homeless, and healed the sick... all non-grate, for no pay whatsoever!

After caging brown children for fear's sake, Trump just identified as "un-American" (read: "anti-Trump") four Congresswomen (two of whom are of Islamic origin) - as if they were enemies!! He was quite un-presidential and un-American when he pointed these women out to his violent followers. He, the South's "Anti-Christ" has just - after a whole 2.5 years of semantic shell-game - finally revealed the racist violent truth of his presidency - and their Confederacy!

Trump and his followers also see that their minority of racist voters will always stay in the minority and that American democracy - or rule by majority - will always disfavor them, so they need democracy to end! To equally-violent-minded "Lost Cause" adherents of the Old South, it was high time for another Civil War or perhaps the End of the World! So, bring on the Anti-Christ Donald Trump, no matter he chooses to collude with!

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A reflection on my grandfather's life experience with racism at the turn of the 20th century is quite instructive: https://bcbrooks.blogspot.com/2019/05/my-grandpa-progressive-liberal-minister.html
#Racism #WhiteSupremacy

RED ALERT! Christian-GOP Dominionism and Donald Trump

This is a thread from "Mr. Spock" on twitter about one of the greatest threats our democracy has ever faced! These are America's Dark Ages!

You will note several similarities in the following thread that may sound familiar if you are used to studying history - particularly the Civil War. This is the racist "white man's" theology of the South's "god of the slavemaster".. now the dominant domain of Republican political ideology!

1898 caption from the Raleigh News & Observer - annotated by the author

The continuous criminality of the South and the GOP: Over 100 Years of GOP Crime & Fascism: https://youtu.be/qBU3lBlecaI

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In Star Trek, one of the core story lines was the Dominion war. But it was mostly in Deep Space Nine. It was originally aired in the 1990s. But it was really speaking to America. Because America is truly at war with the Dominion, here and now. Dominion theology is Christian [in origin].

Political ideologies that seek to institute a nation governed by Christians based only on their personal understanding of Biblical law. Dominionism is a label that only applies to certain groups of Christians within the United States, nowhere else on Earth does this apply. [One particularly anti-American - and Southern neo-Confederate - one is "Church of God Evangelistic Association" operated by David J. Smith]

Dominionism is a radical movement, it cloaks itself in the mantle of Christian faith and American Patriotism, when what it is actually trying to do is dismantle democracy. These people put themselves on a pedestal and dictate the morals of a country based on their limited subjective views that they cherry pick from the Bible and ignore the parts that would effect them. So for example, they will press for oppression of LGBTQ, but not divorce or adultery. They are raping the faith of millions and calling themselves moral whilst acting amorally.

Dominionism has a belief in magic along with adoration of a leader - sound familiar? They believe in the supremacy of a master race, this master race is the bastardised version of American Christianity where Jesus is white and protects only America 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

But most importantly, the give away is not on what they say, but on how they act. The Dominion movement is a totalitarian movement, exploiting those of faith, but of people that don’t truly understand their faith. They will use religious and patriotic language, usually combined. For example, one cannot be truly a patriot American unless you are a Christian, but not true Christianity, it has to be the White bastardised version of Christianity. Everyone else is the enemy. Everyone else is evil and must be eradicated. One must do as they say..

It is the only way to be a Christian and American [according to Dominionism]. Adhere to all of their rhetoric. Find a leader to adore, no matter how unethical he is [GOP's Donald Trump in this case].

So what is their ultimate goal? A legal system based on “Christian Values.” Labor unions & Civil rights movements will be abolished. It will form the basis of the educational system. Women will be removed from the workforce to stay at home [if this reminds you of the "Handmaid's Tale" series on Hulu, you're not wrong!].

Seen these women protestors dressed in red robes? That's from "Handmaid's Tale"

The most important book for the Dominionist is the “Institute of Biblical Law,” which calls for a Christian society that is harsh, unforgiving and violent.

It calls for the death penalty of LGBTQ, blasphemy, astrology and incorrigible juvenile delinquency and women only to be chaste before marriage. The book calls for the Christian United States. There are 2000 radio stations feeding this in America and 6 TV channels. Right now!

So who are the poster boys of Dominionism? Well Pat Robertson for one and I’m sure that surprises no one.

Here’s an article from 2006 which speaks of the rise of Dominionism.

This is why WE HAVE TO STICK TOGETHER. We cannot ever allow this Draconian society to occur. This is why we must call out this fake version of Christianity which is all about white straight men having all of the power. We must say no. Never surrender.

The enemies of morality will not stop and will not back off. The Left cannot and will not change.

"If the Democrats in the Senate try again to usurp the President's constitutional authority by filibustering, there will be a battle of enormous proportions from sea to shining sea." —James Dobson

[more Civil War news & rhetoric by Robert Reich, Franklin Graham,

Politics is religion, and the right is getting ready for the end times

Pete Buttigieg: "Hypocrisy" of Evangelical Christians Supporting Trump

The Evangelical Civil War: An Interview With Russell Moore - Bloomberg ]

Can you understand why tRump is so important to them and their movement?

So the religious right now have 30 million active voters. They go out and vote no matter what. This is why we must ALWAYS VOTE.

None of my tweets I must add are attacking Christians. Real Christians. Not at all. Christians are needed to push back, to speak the truth, to say no to the cheapening of their daily spirituality. I think America needs true Christians now more than ever, to speak out more.

Why Christian nationalists love Trump

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My thanks to Mr. Spock for his ever logical and fascinating analysis!

I have written a quite a few blog entries myself on Southern conservatism combined with theology and originating from early American piracy and crime:

North Carolina: The Subtle Politics of Slavery Before and After the Civil War 

Progressive Liberal Minister Born in the Confederacy!  

"Quest for Blackbeard" and the "Counterfactual" Politics of the South 

Why do Poor White Voters Vote Against Themselves?

North Carolina's Political Pirate Nest

Really! Pirates and Tea Party Conservatism 

Carolana to Carolina: Imperialism, Science, and Early Huguenot Interest in Bath County

Pirates and Capitalists: Two Sides of the Same Coin 

The National Rifle Association in a Culture of Terrorism

A Proud North Carolina Tradition!

North Carolina: The Subtle Politics of Slavery Before and After the Civil War

Republicans were Liberal Before the Confederacy Took Them Over!

North Carolina's Most Amusing Governor and Wilmington Founder 

Political Agenda of "Redeemer Historians" in North Carolina

Responsibility in Business: Imperialism, Africans, and Rice in the South Carolina Trade