Nikki Haley, The Civil War Was Only About Slavery

If any of you pretend it was about anything else, you are lying

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Shit, who needs a made up movie script about evil leaders bent on world domination when you have real Confederates from history extolling the virtues of owning human beings and wanting to expand it to being larger than European empires. How about this quote from the author of Southern Secession, Robert Barnwell Rhett to start things off:

“Citizens of the slaveholding States of the United States! Circumstances beyond our control, have placed us in the van of the great controversy between the Northern and Southern States. We would have preferred, that other States should have assumed the position we now occupy. Independent ourselves, we disclaim any design or desire, to lead the counsels of the other Southern States. Providence has cast our lot together, by extending over us an identity of pursuits, interests and institutions. South Carolina, desires no destiny, separate from yours. To be one of a great Slaveholding Confederacy, stretching its arms over a territory larger than any power in Europe possesses–with a population, four times greater than that of the whole United States, when they achieved their independence of the British Empire–with productions, which make our existence more important to the world, than that of any other people inhabiting it–with common institutions to defend, and common dangers to encounter–we ask your sympathy and confederation.”

-Robert Barnwell Rhett in his address to the People of South Carolina Assembled in Convention, to the people of slave holding states.

For someone like Nikki Haley to refuse to answer what she as the former governor of the foremost state of Confederate secession shows she is completely dishonest, caste oriented, and a racist. She is proof you can be a white supremacist while also being a person of color. Do some of her supporters expect us to believe she has never heard the arguments on the matter before being forced in a corner to removed the Confederate flag from her state’s capital?

The Republican party of today whose fathers and grandfathers were Dixiecrats of yesterday is the party of Neo-Confederates, Fascist, Christian Nationalist, Imperialist, and kooky cults like Qanon…