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Your Racist Friend
By Jeff Fecke | August 22, 2008
Dave “Mudcat” Saunders styles himself as the voice of the Southern Democrat, who have been abandoned by the arugula-chomping limousine liberal set, who do nothing but stereotype all the live-long day. Of course, that Saunders is…uh…stereotyping when he says this goes unmentioned, because we all know how those liberals aren’t “real” Americans.
Anyhow, Oliver Willis has a good catch about a new profile of Mudcat. Really, it’s not so much Mudcat’s regurgitated pablum, which is in full effect, but quite simply, this picture:
That’s Mudcat’s bed. Nice, colorful comforter-slash-symbol of slavery and the greatest treason ever perpetrated against the United States of America.
The Confederate Flag is a 20th century combination of the Confederate Navy Jack and the Confederate Battle Flag. Both were flown in battle by the Confederacy during their traitorous attempt to secede from the Union, so they could continue to hold slaves. The flag itself was revived in support of the right of the South to continue with Jim Crow, and support the American Apartheid system that kept African Americans mired in poverty and penury. Far from being a neutral symbol of Southern pride, it is a racist symbol, pure and simple, a symbol of white pride.
That Saunders tucks himself in at night under a racist symbol is, to put it mildly, horrific. He shouldn’t be involved in American politics, and he damn sure shouldn’t be allowed to be a voice in the Democratic Party, any more than a man who tucked himself in under a Nazi flag or a Ku Klux Klan flag. And quite frankly, if Mudcat doesn’t want himself and his ilk to be viewed as “a bunch of hillbilly heathens who go out and burn crosses and do crazy bullshit,” he might not want to be a hillbilly heathen who goes to sleep under a rebel flag.
Topics: National Democrats, Race | 1 Comment »
March 18th, 2009 at 10:41 am
I understand your view point completely. However I must strongly disagree with you. I am a Californian, and come from an mixed racial family. My mother is caucasian and my father is Aferican American/Argentienian, I have been
Yes at one time this symbol was a sign of racism. But in this day and age it is no longer ONLY stand for that.. If it did why is it that in so many Southern states you can see Aferican Americans flying this same flag? How are they racist, what against themselves? Truth is the southern standpoint in the civil was is in no way supported by me. However it is a part of the history of America! Yes the South was wrong but fact is they lost and good was done. It was a very long time ago and I think that by now our society has proven that racism in not tollerated. The man standing President shows that more than ever! Besides one of the biggest problems today is that folks are so judgemental. I mean honestly is there really that much different than calling someone an Aferican American, arn’t we all Americans as long as we are legal citizens. My step father always hated that he was Argentienian also but did they ever call him a Argentienian American.. No it was always black or Aferican American.. So if you wanna make a judgement on a person make sure it is done to their actions and words and not due to some peice of cloth.