They want to get back to the days when blacks had no voice, blacks didn't have to be treated as equals, blacks could be excluded from their schools, businesses, country clubs, swimming pools, restaurants, and country clubs. White Supremacy Mentality, with blacks simply not clean enough or smart enough to mingle with in public.
I recently listened to a podcast called Charismatic Revival Fury. I highly recommend it to anyone who is interested in how charismatic evangelicals came to ultimately support Donald Trump and encourage, and participate in, January 6. The podcast is hosted by Matthew Taylor, a scholar at the Institute for Islamic, Christian, & Jewish Studies in Baltimore. It was recommended to me by some family who have left the evangelical church for more liturgical, denominational pastures. The last episode focuses on Dutch Sheets, a prayer leader in the new apostolic reformation movement and influential figure in Trump-supporting charismatic Christianity. Sheets popularized the "Appeal to Heaven" flag as what the podcast host calls a "prophetic meme". It's basically an idea, imbued with evangelical and American symbolism, that also grants plausible deniability to anyone who wields as an explicitly Christian nationalist symbol. Just look at @Commodore 's posts; he agrees with it (Ron Swanson meme), can point to it as simply a piece of obscure Americana, and claim to be unaware that it's been adopted as an explicit symbol of charismatic Christian nationalism. The in-crowd gets the full message and loosely-affiliated allies get a flag that owns that libs. Best of all for them, their meme was flown outside the home of a Supreme Court justice and sits outside the Speaker of the House's office. It is at once an explicitly Christian nationalist symbol and another piece of gear for the Gravy Seals to slobber over.
It tells us everything we need to know about you when you classify: -Taking away women's freedoms -Reversing back to Jim Crow laws -Making the Presidency a King like ruler that is above the law -Etc. etc. as... "Bad for the Libs." How about ... Bad for... like... Freedom and Democracy?? So if something is bad for Freedom and Democracy and you point and laugh at that because you view it at an opposition position, then you are inevitably gloating that you are a fascist racist autocrat. Or would you like to clarify your position here?? Otherwise we are left to take your position at face value that you do not support Democracy, do not believe in freedoms for all, and support legislative racism.
yes cancun... President Biden appointed one of the supreme court justices whose wife was an active participant in attempting to overturn the election, and Biden appointed another supreme court justice flying flags indicating his support for the efforts to overturn the election. Oh wait, he didn't appoint either...
Its pretty wild that the two craziest justices were appointed by Bush 41 and 43. Somehow Trump's appointees haven't managed to match the consistent insanity of Alito and Thomas. I guess Gorsuch is pretty wild in his own way but he at least always gets it right on cases involving tribal/Native American issues. Thomas and Alito are just on an island of pure hackery that isn't matched by the other Conservatives.
Thomas is remarkably consistent in his views on Brown. I don't pretend to understand the legalese he uses, but he has been pretty adamant throughout his life that things like forced integration were misguided. It seems like a really odd view from somebody who benefited from it but, hey, that's modern conservatism. Even when Thomas was active in the black power movement at college he viewed intermingling as wrong because he thought whites would always be racist toward blacks and that black Americans would be better served staying within their own communities. I believe he's on record as saying that he especially disliked northern whites because, unlike southern whites, he viewed them as racists who hid their racism unlike overtly hateful southerners. A lot of this mindset was instilled in him by his grandfather who told him that any benefit extended to blacks couldn't be trusted because white Americans couldn't be trusted at all. Thomas' view seems to be that racism is deeply ingrained within society and people and therefore it is pointless to try to end it. He's a really interesting figure.
Too busy to get into it, but there were many differring voices fighting for Black rights throughout history with disagreements over issues that we'd find crazy today: going back to Africa, keeping separate, and living in an integrated world. Black leaders spanned the spectrum of beliefs.
Lincoln himself wanted black Americans to return to Africa and that attitude is why Liberia was founded.
Another interesting part of his his history was that he was part of desegregating some of the schools he went to including the Catholic schools where he was either the first or one of the first black students.
