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LETTERS FROM AN AMERICAN

February 27, 2024

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

FEB 28, 2024

The House of Representatives will be back in session tomorrow after the February 19 Presidents Day holiday. It is facing a number of crucial issues, but the ongoing problem of the radicalism of the MAGA Republicans has ground—and, apparently, continues to grind—legislation to a halt.

The farm bill, which establishes the main agricultural and food policies of the government—agricultural subsidies and food benefits, among other things—and which needs to be reauthorized every five years, expired in September 2023. While Congress extended the 2018 bill as a stopgap until September 2024, the new bill should be passed.

The farm bill has more breathing room than the appropriations bills to fund the government in fiscal year 2024 (which started on October 1, 2023). Four of the continuing resolutions Congress passed to keep the government running will expire on March 1; the other eight will expire on March 8. Operating on a continuing resolution that maintains 2023 levels of spending means the government cannot shift to the new priorities Congress agreed to in the 2024 National Defense Authorization Act, and Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, along with leaders from the Pentagon and the Senate, warns that the lack of appropriations measures is compromising national defense.

On an even tighter timeline is the national security supplemental bill to aid Ukraine, Israel, the Indo-Pacific, and to provide humanitarian aid to Gaza. Ukraine is running out of ammunition, and its war effort is faltering. Every day that passes without the matériel only the U.S. can provide hurts the Ukrainians’ cause.

All of these measures are stalled because extremist MAGA Republicans in the House are insisting their demands be included in them. Negotiators have been trying to hash out the farm bill for months, and today Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI), chair of the Senate Agriculture Committee, said she would rather continue to extend the 2018 law than bow to the House Republicans’ demands for cuts to food assistance programs and funding for climate change.

Appropriations bills are generally passed “clean,” that is, without the inclusion of unrelated controversial elements. But House Republicans are insisting the appropriations bills include their own demands for much deeper cuts than House leadership agreed to, as well as riders about abortion; gun policy; diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives; LGBTQ+ rights; and so on. Those are nonstarters for Democrats.

As for the national security supplemental measure, lawmakers agree on a bipartisan basis that Ukraine’s successful defense against Russia’s invasion is crucial to U.S. national security. The Senate passed the bill on a strong bipartisan vote of 70 to 29, and if brought to the floor of the House, it would be expected to pass there, too.

But House speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) refuses to bring it to the floor. When President Joe Biden first asked for the aid in October, Republicans insisted they could not see their way to protecting our national security overseas without addressing it on the southern border. A bipartisan group of senators spent four months hashing out a border provision for the bill—House Republicans declined to participate—only to have House Republicans scuttle the measure when former president Trump told them to. The Senate promptly passed a bill that didn’t have the border component. Rather than take it up, the House recessed.

Today, President Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris met with congressional leaders and urged them to pass the appropriations bills and the national security supplemental. But Biden, Harris, Senate majority leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senate minority leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY), and House minority leader Hakeem Jeffries (D-NY) all agree on the need to pass these measures immediately. The holdout is House speaker Johnson.

After the meeting, Schumer said the meeting on Ukraine was “one of the most intense” scenes he had ever seen in the Oval Office. "We said to the speaker, 'Get it done.' I told him this is one of the moments—I said I've been around here a long time. It's maybe four or five times that history is looking over your shoulder, and if you don't do the right thing, whatever the immediate politics are, you will regret it. I told him two years from now and every year after that, because really, it's in his hands."

For his part, Johnson said that “the House is actively pursuing and investigating all the various options” on the supplemental bill, “but again, the first priority of the country is our border and making sure it’s secure.”

Johnson appears to be working for Trump, who is strongly opposed to aid for Ukraine and likely intends to use immigration as a campaign issue.

But Trump is a poor choice to give control over United States security. Yesterday, Special Counsel Jack Smith responded to Trump’s motion to dismiss the charges against him associated with his stealing and hiding classified documents on the grounds that he was being treated differently than President Biden, who had also had classified documents in his possession but was not criminally charged.

Smith noted that while there have been many government officials who have accidentally or willfully kept classified documents, and even some who briefly resisted attempts to recover them, Trump’s behavior was unique. “He intentionally took possession of a vast trove of some of the nation’s most sensitive documents…and stored them in unsecured locations at his heavily trafficked social club.” Then, when the government tried to recover the documents, Trump “delayed, obfuscated, and dissembled,” finally handing over only “a fraction” of those in his possession. No one, Smith wrote, “has engaged in a remotely similar suite of willful and deceitful criminal conduct and not been prosecuted.”

Perhaps to distract from Smith’s filing, House Committee on Oversight and Accountability chair James Comer (R-KY) and House Committee on the Judiciary chair Jim Jordan (R-OH) today subpoenaed information from Special Counsel Robert Hur’s investigation into Biden’s handling of documents. Hur’s report exonerated the president and showed such contrast between Trump's behavior and Biden's full cooperation with officials that Smith used material from it in his filing.

Comer and Jordan are likely also eager to find new material against Biden after the man who provided the key evidence in their impeachment attempt turned out to be working with Russian intelligence agents and was recently indicted for lying and creating a false record.

Since this year is a leap year, Congress has three days to pass the first four of the appropriations measures or to find another workaround before March 1, when parts of the government shut down. As Schumer said, those measures, along with the national security supplemental bill, are now in Speaker Johnson’s hands.

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HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

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This is an excellent commentary by Henry Louis Gates Jr. The link above is a gift link, so anyone can read the entire column, even if they don’t subscribe to The New York Times.

Gates argues convincingly that what far right politicians like Ron DeSantis are doing in trying to control the history that is taught in schools is very similar to what was done by the United Daughters of the Confederacy in their promotion of schools teaching the “Lost Cause” and a rewritten whitewashed history.

Gates also argues that there has always been rigorous debate within the Black community about many “ideological and theoretical framework[s]” regarding the Black experience in America. He believes these differences are discussed in African American Studies courses and raise important debates for the students who take those classes.

The one important thing Gates left out of this essay was that in the 1920s the KKK also promoted only teaching a history that praised the founders, much like the “patriotic” civics/history DeSantis and other GOP politicians are also pushing.

Below are some highlights from the column [all emphasis added]:

Lurking behind the concerns of Ron DeSantis, the governor of Florida, over the content of a proposed high school course in African American studies, is a long and complex series of debates about the role of slavery and race in American classrooms.

“We believe in teaching kids facts and how to think, but we don’t believe they should have an agenda imposed on them,” Governor DeSantis said. He also decried what he called “indoctrination.” [...] Even if we give the governor the benefit of the doubt about the motivations behind his recent statements about the content of the original version of the College Board’s A.P. curriculum in African American studies, his intervention falls squarely in line with a long tradition of bitter, politically suspect battles over the interpretation of three seminal periods in the history of American racial relations: the Civil War; the 12 years following the war, known as Reconstruction; and Reconstruction’s brutal rollback, characterized by its adherents as the former Confederacy’s “Redemption,” which saw the imposition of Jim Crow segregation, the reimposition of white supremacy and their justification through a masterfully executed propaganda effort.

Undertaken by apologists for the former Confederacy with an energy and alacrity that was astonishing in its vehemence and reach, in an era defined by print culture, politicians and amateur historians joined forces to police the historical profession. The so-called Lost Cause movement was, in effect, a take-no-prisoners social media war. And no single group or person was more pivotal to “the dissemination of the truths of Confederate history, earnestly and fully and officially,” than the historian general of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mildred Lewis Rutherford, of Athens, Ga. Rutherford was a descendant of a long line of slave owners.... Rutherford served as the principal of the Lucy Cobb Institute (a school for girls in Athens) and vice president of the Stone Mountain Memorial project, the former Confederacy’s version of Mount Rushmore.

As the historian David Blight notes, “Rutherford gave new meaning to the term ‘die-hard.’” Indeed, she “considered the Confederacy ‘acquitted as blameless’ at the bar of history, and sought its vindication with a political fervor that would rival the ministry of propaganda in any twentieth-century dictatorship.” And she felt that the crimes of Reconstruction “made the Ku Klux Klan a necessity.” As I pointed out in a PBS documentary on the rise and fall of Reconstruction, Rutherford intuitively understood the direct connection between history lessons taught in the classroom and the Lost Cause racial order being imposed outside it, and she sought to cement that relationship with zeal and efficacy. She understood that what is inscribed on the blackboard translates directly to social practices unfolding on the street.

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“Realizing that the textbooks in history and literature which the children of the South are now studying, and even the ones from which many of their parents studied before them,” she wrote in “A Measuring Rod to Test Text Books, and Reference Books in Schools, Colleges and Libraries,” “are in many respects unjust to the South and her institutions, and that a far greater injustice and danger is threatening the South today from the late histories which are being published, guilty not only of misrepresentations but of gross omissions, refusing to give the South credit for what she has accomplished, … I have prepared, as it were, a testing or measuring rod.” And Rutherford used that measuring rod to wage a systematic campaign to redefine the Civil War not as our nation’s war to end the evils of slavery, but as “the War Between the States,” since as she wrote elsewhere, “the negroes of the South were never called slaves.” And they were “well-fed, well-clothed and well-housed.”

Of the more than 25 books and pamphlets that Rutherford published, none was more important than “A Measuring Rod.” Published in 1920, her user-friendly pamphlet was meant to be the index “by which every textbook on history and literature in Southern schools should be tested by those desiring the truth.” The pamphlet was designed to make it easy for “all authorities charged with the selection of textbooks for colleges, schools and all scholastic institutions to measure all books offered for adoption by this ‘Measuring Rod,’ and adopt none which do not accord full justice to the South.” What’s more, her campaign was retroactive. As the historian Donald Yacovone tells us in his recent book, “Teaching White Supremacy,” Rutherford insisted that librarians “should scrawl ‘unjust to the South’ on the title pages” of any “unacceptable” books “already in their collections.”

On a page headed ominously by the word “Warning,” Rutherford provides a handy list of what a teacher or a librarian should “reject” or “not reject.”

“Reject a book that speaks of the Constitution other than a compact between Sovereign States.”

“Reject a textbook that does not give the principles for which the South fought in 1861, and does not clearly outline the interferences with the rights guaranteed to the South by the Constitution, and which caused secession.”

“Reject a book that calls the Confederate soldier a traitor or rebel, and the war a rebellion.”

“Reject a book that says the South fought to hold her slaves.”

“Reject a book that speaks of the slaveholder of the South as cruel and unjust to his slaves.”

And my absolute favorite, “Reject a textbook that glorified Abraham Lincoln and vilifies Jefferson Davis, unless,” she adds graciously, “a truthful cause can be found for such glorification and vilification before 1865.”

And what of slavery? “This was an education that taught the negro self-control, obedience and perseverance — yes, taught him to realize his weaknesses and how to grow stronger for the battle of life,” Rutherford writes in 1923 in “The South Must Have Her Rightful Place.” “The institution of slavery as it was in the South, far from degrading the negro, was fast elevating him above his nature and race.” For Rutherford, who lectured wearing antebellum hoop gowns, the war over the interpretation of the meaning of the recent past was all about establishing the racial order of the present: “The truth must be told, and you must read it, and be ready to answer it.” Unless this is done, “in a few years there will be no South about which to write history.”

In other words, Rutherford’s common core was the Lost Cause. And it will come as no surprise that this vigorous propaganda effort was accompanied by the construction of many of the Confederate monuments that have dotted the Southern landscape since.

While it’s safe to assume that most contemporary historians of the Civil War and Reconstruction are of similar minds about Rutherford and the Lost Cause, it’s also true that one of the most fascinating aspects of African American studies is the rich history of debate over issues like this, and especially over what it has meant — and continues to mean — to be “Black” in a nation with such a long and troubled history of human slavery at the core of its economic system for two-and-a-half centuries.

Heated debates within the Black community, beginning as early as the first decades of the 19th century, have ranged from what names “the race” should publicly call itself (William Whipper vs. James McCune Smith) and whether or not enslaved men and women should rise in arms against their masters (Henry Highland Garnet vs. Frederick Douglass). Economic development vs. political rights? (Booker T. Washington vs. W.E.B. Du Bois). Should Black people return to Africa? (Marcus Garvey vs. W.E.B. Du Bois). Should we admit publicly the pivotal role of African elites in enslaving our ancestors? (Ali Mazrui vs. Wole Soyinka).

Add to these repeated arguments over sexism, socialism and capitalism, reparations, antisemitism and homophobia. It is often surprising to students to learn that there has never been one way to “be Black” among Black Americans, nor have Black politicians, activists and scholars ever spoken with one voice or embraced one ideological or theoretical framework. Black America, that “nation in a nation,” as the Black abolitionist Martin R. Delany put it, has always been as varied and diverse as the complexions of the people who have identified, or been identified, as its members. [...] As a consultant to the College Board as it developed its A.P. course in African American studies, I suggested the inclusion of a “pro and con” debate unit at the end of its curriculum because of the inherent scholarly importance of many of the contemporary hot-button issues that conservative politicians have been seeking to censor, but also as a way to help students understand the relation between the information they find in their textbooks and efforts by politicians to say what should and what should not be taught in the classroom.

Why shouldn’t students be introduced to these debates? Any good class in Black studies seeks to explore the widest range of thought voiced by Black and white thinkers on race and racism over the long course of our ancestors’ fight for their rights in this country. In fact, in my experience, teaching our field through these debates is a rich and nuanced pedagogical strategy, affording our students ways to create empathy across differences of opinion, to understand “diversity within difference,” and to reflect on complex topics from more than one angle. It forces them to critique stereotypes and canards about who “we are” as a people and what it means to be “authentically Black.” I am not sure which of these ideas has landed one of my own essays on the list of pieces the state of Florida found objectionable, but there it is.

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There is much more in this essay that is worth reading. As I said before, the gift link above will allow you to read the entire essay. I encourage you to do so.

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"He hates us... those who stand for AMERICA FIRST" - Mercedes Schlapp

So...

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Know your abbreviations: in TN, the NRA GOP has gone KKK.

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I think it's time for Superman to take out the GOP the same way he took down the KKK in the 60s

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Hey, we all make mistakes, especially creepy, subliminal, deeply racist ones in a South that still likely longs to rise again. So it's entirely understandable that a few weeks after a Georgia school district excitedly unveiled a new elementary school logo "to honor the history of our great school" that looks just like the Nazi eagle, an Alabama county GOP posted an image of their party's elephant with KKK hoods between its legs, thus "accidentally" saying the quiet, awful part out loud about a party increasingly indistinguishable from fascists and white nationalists. The Facebook post from the Lawrence County GOP aimed to thank a departing county chairman for his "diligent work (to) represent your conservative values." Once the sinister hoods were pointed out by some discerning observers, the image was removed and chairman Shannon Terry offered "a deep and sincere apology" for "hidden images that do not represent the views or beliefs of the Lawrence County Republican Party." Terry said the image was hurriedly taken from a Google search, adding, "I take full responsibility for the error...I regret the mistake that was made, and it was just that - an unintended mistake."

Because irony still hasn't quite died, it turns out the image came from a 2020 piece at Mother Jones titled, "The Republican Party is Racist and Soulless," in which longtime GOP consultant Stuart Stevens blasts the modern GOP as a "cartel" that exists "for the pursuit of power for no purpose." It also turns out the image was created by illustrator Woody Harrington, who noted "the Hate Elephant has been given new life (without permission or credit, of course.") In response to the elephant's reappearance, the Lawrence County NAACP on Friday called for Terry's resignation from the school board; they argued the notion the county GOP "has Ku Klux Klan embedded within their grassroots" cannot be ignored, and Terry's credibility as a school board member has been "tainted." Still, Terry declined to resign. In a statement, he reiterated he did not "properly review a cut and paste image," insisted he does "not support or agree with any hate group agenda," and claimed he was "being incorrectly portrayed by some over this unfortunate issue." And besides, adds Crooks and Liars, in these unforgiving times, "Let those amongst us who never accidentally posted KKK imagery cast the first stone."

#alabama #republicans #republican party #KKK #GOP

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THE HEART OF JUSTICE CAN NEVER BE KILLED (UPDATED)

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“The heart of justice can never be killed.” Those were the final words of Tennessee State Representative Justin Pearson today in his refutation of the actions taken against him by the unreconstructed Southern Confederate Traitors that comprise the Tennessee Republican Party.

He’s right. “The heart of justice can never be killed.”

Justin Pearson and Justin Jones reminded me so sharply of those brave young black men and women I met sixty years ago in the civil rights movement. Fire breathers. Their words arrows to the hearts of the ignorant, mendacious, malicious, malevolent white Southern men who thought because they were accidentally born white and Southern and male they had the right to lecture any “uppity” young black man who disturbed their “decorum,” to expel them from the state legislature - a body that had only three times before expelled member when they expelled one for taking a bribe, one for being credibly accused of child rape and the third credibly accused of sexual misconduct with underage women - for daring to say that the “legends in their own minds” had no clothes.

I first met Southern whites sixty years ago in the Navy. They were like a separate species from any other people I had ever met anywhere. Most prominent was their ignorance. There wasn’t one of them in my recruit company who scored over 35 on the Armed Forces Qualification Test, the test that determined how much intelligence the test-taker had and determined what kind of training and assignment he would get in the service. Most of them didn’t score above 20! I’d never seen people so stupid before in my life.

Not only were they stupid. They were ignorant in a way I had never seen before, and they reveled in that ignorance. They were proud of their ignorance. The representative who led the effort at expulsion rose to break into the speech by Justin Pearson and lecture him on why he was being expelled, and how he had harmed the decorum of the legislature by failing to “properly behave.” Pearson replied after he sat down, asking if there was anyone in the room who would like to be “spoken to like that.” There were no takers. He then went on to say that what had just happened demonstrated the problem, that the interruptor believed he had by nature of his position, the power to act as he did.

As Elie Mystal, the justice reporter for The Nation magazine put it, “people have learned more today about what Critical Race Theory is and what it describes than they will ever learn in any book banned by a Republican legislature.”

The Tennessee Republicans could act as they did because they have a 75-vote supermajority thanks to their redistricting of the state after the 2020 census, in which they turned Tennessee into the most-gerrymandered state in the United States. In creating that new map they cracked Democratic-leaning Nashville, dividing it among three districts in which they overwhelmed Democratic voters with Republicans from the suburbs. Representative Justin Jones, the first of the two expelled, was the only Democrat left representing any part of Nashville.

Once they took supermajority power following the 2022 election, the first piece of legislation passed required Nashville to cut its city council in half. They followed that with laws prohibiting people with a past felony conviction from voting, which cut more than 470,000 people from the voter rolls.

This lock on power has given Tennessee Republicans the ability to do as they please, and in so doing to demonstrate that “power corrupts, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”

The Republican-dominated House began pushing for the expulsion of Justin Jones, of Nashville, Gloria Johnson of Knoxville and Justin Pearson of Memphis after the three legislators participated in a protest against lax gun laws from the floor of the chamber last week in the wake of the Nashville school shooting that left six people - three children and three school staff members - dead.

Since the Thursday protest, House leadership made bad faith and over-the-top comparisons, likening the trio’s behavior to the January 6 “insurrection” - thereby acting to define the assault on the nation’s capitol as nothing more than a “passionate protest.

Today it pleased them to expel two young Black legislators who were trying to force the Republicans to do something about the epidemic of gun violence killing their constituents.

As the young demonstrators in the hallways shouted, “You ban books, you ban drag, kids are still in body bags!”

And then they yelled “You fucking fascists!”

Johnson, a white woman, was not expelled, after some lawmakers cited her calmer demeanor during the protest. As she pointed out afterwards, she did everything the two legislators who were expelled had done. As to why they were expelled and she wasn’t, Johnson said “I think it has to do with the difference in our skin color.”

The White Racist South has never changed since the day the Barbadian Pirates arrived in Charleston harbor with their slaves and their philosophy of white supremacy 300 years ago. In the three centuries since, the White Racist South has never missed an opportunity to publicly celebrate their racist, white supremacist beliefs. Losing a war never made them examine their beliefs. The limited success of the civil rights movement only made them more committed to their white supremacy.

Confronted by anyone pointing out their mendacity, their maliciousness, their malevolence, their plain meanness, their ignorance, their murderous violence, the White South has always reacted by recommitting themselves to each and every one of those negative values, and the praising themselves for so doing. White Southerners always accuse Northerners of disrespecting them by saying they sound stupid, then they go publicly celebrate their moron stupidity.

Back in the 1970s, White Southerners tried to convince the rest of the country that they had “changed.” Anyone who went there found the change non-existent once outside any major southern city, and non-existent in most of those cities’ white suburbs. While that bullshit was being peddled, the Republican Party remade itself beginning with Nixon’s “southern strategy” in 1968, maintaining the party’s national power by welcoming the unreconstructed Confederacy into the party. Ronald Reagan chose to announce his 1980 presidential campaign in Philadelphia, Mississippi, site of the 1964 KKK murders of civil rights workers Andrew Goodman, Michael Schwerner and James Cheney, proclaiming his belief in and support of “states’ rights.” It wasn’t a “dog whistle” to the unreconstructed Confederacy. It was the Queen Mary’s foghorn.

Justin Pearson was right today when he said that “The heart of justice can never be killed.”

Democracy didn’t die in the well of the Tennessee State Assembly today. It was reborn there.

As Obi-Wan Kenobe says to Darth Vader in the good Star Wars Movie, “Now I shall become more powerful than you can possibly imagine,” as Vader delivers what he thinks is a killing blow.

The inbred ignoramuses, the unreconstructed Confederates, the mendacious, malignant, malicious, malevolent white supremacist scum in the Tennessee State Legislature are about to find out the truth of those words come Monday morning.

The speech below is 22 minutes well-spent:

Justin Pearson speech in legislature

“You are seeking to expel District 86’s representation from this house, in a country that was built on a protest. IN A COUNTRY THAT WAS BUILT ON A PROTEST. You who celebrate July 4, 1776, pop fireworks and eat hotdogs. You say to protest is wrong because you spoke out of turn, because you spoke up for people who are marginalized. You spoke up for children who won’t ever be able to speak again; you spoke up for parents who don’t want to live in fear; you spoke up for Larry Thorn, who was murdered by gun violence; you spoke up for people that we don’t want to care about. In a country built on people who speak out of turn, who spoke out of turn, who fought out of turn to build a nation.

“I come from a long line of people who have resisted.”

“Power always thinks it has a great soul and vast views beyond the comprehension of the weak; and that it is doing God’s service when it is violating all his laws.” - John Adams

Here is video of the Tennessee Republican exercising his White Privilege to lecture Justin Pearson about “keeping his place.” Everything you need to know about how White Supremacy works in one short video.

Tennessee lawmaker lectures Justin Pearson

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