{"id":4697,"date":"2008-08-22T14:54:42","date_gmt":"2008-08-22T22:14:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.amptoons.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/08\/22\/straight-up-racist-the-sucker-was-simple-and-plain\/"},"modified":"2008-08-22T14:54:42","modified_gmt":"2008-08-22T22:14:30","slug":"straight-up-racist-the-sucker-was-simple-and-plain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/?p=4697","title":{"rendered":"Straight Up Racist, the Sucker Was Simple and Plain"},"content":{"rendered":"

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<\/a> goes unmentioned, because we all know how those liberals aren’t “real” Americans.<\/p>\n

Anyhow, Oliver Willis has a good catch<\/a> 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:<\/p>\n

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That’s Mudcat’s bed. Nice, colorful comforter-slash-symbol of slavery and the greatest treason ever perpetrated against the United States of America.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n

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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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 … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[93],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-race-racism-and-related-issues"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/amptoons.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}