A little-known lawsuit by New York's Letitia James against the notorious VDare Foundation reveals how a white supremacist movement expands without ever saying the words "white supremacy"
I can't wait to read your book. We were all reading her Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape when it came out. Not only did it radicalize a lot of us, but I had a co-worker who fended off a would-be rapist by going upside his head with her copy.
Really important to keep eyes on the small voting rights cases in the states and even the counties. The evil elves have been scoping out the nooks and crannies in the local laws and regulations. Trump will probably lose, but MAGAs will definitely try to steal.
That's such an interesting bit of history about Virginia Dare. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, who funded most of the Confederate statues around here in the 40s and 50s, still meet annually for the conference at the Marriott in Raleigh. They are a grim bunch, let me tell you! They sit in the bar wearing Confederate costumes and slowly get stinking drunk.
I like the image of them getting stinking drunk and would like to know the cause of their inebriation.
The end of slavery? Lee's defeat? Their statue of Johnny Reb coming down in Tupelo? Fort Benning being re-named? Not being able to meet potential husbands who both share their racial views and earn real incomes (not to mention doing something in their lives besides waging flame and real political wars). Their trust funds emptying out? Their secret black/Jewish/female lover? Having to put up with their dull husband who is obsessed with beer and bowling? Their kids who are voting Democrat?
Hi, Claire, This is from a couple of weeks ago, but this one about the Virginia Dare Society has stayed with me. Do you think the Pat Cleburne you mentioned knows that the Civil War General Cleburne proposed offering slaves freedom if they enlisted in the Confederate Army? He wrote a paper that outlined his thinking in 1864 and presented it to a group of officers. Of course, it was summarily dismissed by the top brass and Jefferson Davis. Peter
I am white. but would love for humans to take a page from dogs or cats and not use skin color as an excuse to bolster ourselves by putting others down.
Thank you! I have seen a white deer in Henlopen State Park in Delaware. Was aware of the surface story of Virginia Dare, but never knew how it became twisted up into white supremacist code. I am so over insecure white people quaking their boots about demographics changes.
Bill Bryson wrote in one of his books of traveling across the US about the mysterious "Melungeons," whom he described as an unusual group of white people living in Virginia in the 1600s and 1700s who were isolated from the rest of the world, said grace, and were likely the descendants of the Roanoke colony.
Now they have a web page, and they are likely indeed the descendants of those folks, having intermarried with Native Americans and African-Americans (freed or runaway slaves) and lived in varying degrees of "happily ever after."
So they are the diametric opposite of the VDare operation...Native Americans, Britons, and African-Americans, all mixed together.
Probably is the same one!
I can't wait to read your book. We were all reading her Against Our Will: Men, Women, and Rape when it came out. Not only did it radicalize a lot of us, but I had a co-worker who fended off a would-be rapist by going upside his head with her copy.
Now *that* is one awesome story.
Really important to keep eyes on the small voting rights cases in the states and even the counties. The evil elves have been scoping out the nooks and crannies in the local laws and regulations. Trump will probably lose, but MAGAs will definitely try to steal.
No question. And it is shocking that the reporting on them is so confined to niche state and local nonprofit newsletters.
That's such an interesting bit of history about Virginia Dare. The United Daughters of the Confederacy, who funded most of the Confederate statues around here in the 40s and 50s, still meet annually for the conference at the Marriott in Raleigh. They are a grim bunch, let me tell you! They sit in the bar wearing Confederate costumes and slowly get stinking drunk.
I would totally love to go to their meeting. When is the next one?
This year, it's October 19-20 in Washington, D.C.! Let's go! Their motto is "Entrusted with History's Future". (emoticon of exploding head here)
Maybe my friend Karen Cox would come too--she's the Confederate monuments historian.
I like the image of them getting stinking drunk and would like to know the cause of their inebriation.
The end of slavery? Lee's defeat? Their statue of Johnny Reb coming down in Tupelo? Fort Benning being re-named? Not being able to meet potential husbands who both share their racial views and earn real incomes (not to mention doing something in their lives besides waging flame and real political wars). Their trust funds emptying out? Their secret black/Jewish/female lover? Having to put up with their dull husband who is obsessed with beer and bowling? Their kids who are voting Democrat?
I think the gentleladies of the South have always been prone to tipple.
I'll drink to that....
Hi, Claire, This is from a couple of weeks ago, but this one about the Virginia Dare Society has stayed with me. Do you think the Pat Cleburne you mentioned knows that the Civil War General Cleburne proposed offering slaves freedom if they enlisted in the Confederate Army? He wrote a paper that outlined his thinking in 1864 and presented it to a group of officers. Of course, it was summarily dismissed by the top brass and Jefferson Davis. Peter
I am white. but would love for humans to take a page from dogs or cats and not use skin color as an excuse to bolster ourselves by putting others down.
Thank you! I have seen a white deer in Henlopen State Park in Delaware. Was aware of the surface story of Virginia Dare, but never knew how it became twisted up into white supremacist code. I am so over insecure white people quaking their boots about demographics changes.
Bill Bryson wrote in one of his books of traveling across the US about the mysterious "Melungeons," whom he described as an unusual group of white people living in Virginia in the 1600s and 1700s who were isolated from the rest of the world, said grace, and were likely the descendants of the Roanoke colony.
Now they have a web page, and they are likely indeed the descendants of those folks, having intermarried with Native Americans and African-Americans (freed or runaway slaves) and lived in varying degrees of "happily ever after."
So they are the diametric opposite of the VDare operation...Native Americans, Britons, and African-Americans, all mixed together.