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Behind The Dixie Stars




Uploaded on Feb 15, 2010
7 minute Documentary featuring Nelson W. Winbush, a black son of confederate black soldier Luis Napoleon Nelson who fought under Nathan Bedford Forest, founder of the KKK. A series of interviews, documentation, stock footage, and reenactments all collaberate to help defend the Confederacy and it's soldiers against it's notorious reputation in regards to black slavery and what the confederate flag actually stood for.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YF-QIJyLhKQ

NAACP’s Campaign for the Removal of the Confederate Flag

In 1994 the NAACP began a campaign to remove the Confederate flag from all public property in South Carolina. Proponents of the Confederate flag tried to broker a compromise by removing the flag from the Statehouse dome and placing another battle flag near a Southern soldiers’ monument on the front lawn of the Statehouse grounds. The NAACP responded by calling for an economic boycott of South Carolina and by organizing a succession of protest marches. Every year on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day thousands march to the Statehouse in Columbia to call for the retirement of the Confederate flag. On January 17, 2000, more than 50,000 marchers rallied at the Statehouse in the largest civil rights demonstration in the South.


Kweisi Mfume to Mannie Jackson, Chairman/Owner of the Harlem Globetrotters, thanking Jackson for his donation in support of the NAACP’s effort to remove the Confederate flag from the South Carolina state capital grounds, June 6, 2000. Typed letter. Page 2 - Page 3. NAACP Records, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress (154.00.00) Courtesy of the NAACP
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NAACP Misses the Point With Rebel Flag


The NAACP keeps its corporate donors happy by squawking over side-show issues like South Carolina's Confederate flag -- at the expense of meaningful activism on issues that really matter to African-Americans.

—By Earl Ofari Hutchinson
| Wed Apr. 12, 2000 3:00 AM EDT

South Carolina's defiance in waving the Confederate flag over its statehouse has made the issue a red flag for NAACP leaders. They have galvanized a flock of politicians, college and professional athletes, black frats and sororities, hip-hop, rock and movie stars to march, rally, and boycott the state until it lowers the flag.

Yet at the same time, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People makes no mention of the ugly fact that South Carolina blacks have close to the highest poverty, school-dropout, infant-mortality, and victim-of-violence rates in the nation. The NAACP has been mum on the dreary plight of hundreds of black South Carolina farmers whose farms have been foreclosed upon by bankers and government agencies in the past decade.

Even the NAACP's own much-touted boycott has drained $100 million from the state's tourist industry, making it a curse for some blacks. Black college presidents, politicians, food and service company owners, and entertainment promoters privately grouse that the boycott has badly pinched their purse.

Even if South Carolina capitulated and dumped the flag in a museum, where it belongs, it would be only a Pyrrhic victory. Configured and reconfigured designs of the Confederate flag fly over public buildings in nearly every deep-South state. Are NAACP leaders going to demand that blacks march, rally, and mount tourism boycotts until they remove the flags in these states?

The Confederate flag fight in South Carolina is a textbook example of the NAACP's strategy of elevating side-show issues to a life-and- death struggles for African-Americans, in order to grab maximum media and public visibility. It also uses this strategy to shut up black critics who blast the NAACP as a do-little, rudderless group more interested in lining its coffers with corporate dollars than fighting hard racial battles.

The strategy is simple: Pick the softest target possible, make a lot of fuss about it, and take minimal action on the piles of crisis issues that devastate poor and working-class black communities. NAACP leaders employed the strategy when they threatened boycotts against the TV industry, lawsuits against gun manufacturers, and squawked about the paucity of black Supreme Court clerks.

The NAACP's often blatant inattention to the big-ticket issues that sledgehammer the black poor make me wonder again whether the nation's oldest civil rights group can really be the big player in the battle against racism and injustice that it has been for most of its long history. I wondered about this because the NAACP has spent the better part of the 1990s in a monumental retreat from visible cutting-edge social activism. That retreat can be directly traced to the collapse of legal segregation in the 1960s, the class divisions that imploded within black America, and the greening of the black middle class.

This is a process that has been slowly evolving since the death of Martin Luther King Jr. and other civil rights leaders in the 1960s. By the close of the 1960s, the civil-rights movement had spent itself. The torrent of demonstrations, sit-ins, marches, and civil-rights legislation annihilated the legal wall of segregation.

With the barriers erased, the black middle-class had a field day. They were starting more and better businesses, marching into more corporations and universities, spreading out into more of the professions, winning more political offices, buying bigger and more expensive homes, cars, clothes, and jewelry, taking more luxury vacations, and joining more country clubs than ever before in the country's history. The first chance they got, many packed up their bags and started their headlong flight to greener suburban pastures.

None of their success had even the remotest bearing on the lives of the black poor, who had become even poorer, and more desperate. Many of those poor turned to crime, drugs, and gangs as their only way out.
NAACP leaders are trapped in the middle by the twisting political trends and upward-shifting fortunes of the black middle-class and downward-shifting situation of the black poor. A tilt toward an aggressive activist agenda carries the risk of alienating the corporate donors that the NAACP has carefully cultivated over the past few years. It depends on those donors to gain more jobs, promotions, and contracts for black professionals and businesspersons and to secure contributions for its fundraising campaigns, dinners, banquets, scholarship funds, and other programs.

The Confederate flag fight poses no threat to the NAACP's cozy relationship with its corporate backers. And since the public believes that only rabid, unreconstructed race-baiters defend flying the Confederate flag, NAACP leaders can claim that they are striking a mortal blow against racist oppression. But scrapping the flag won't save black farms, improve abominable schools, stop racial profiling, fight the crime and drug plague, or help poor, malnourished mothers.

http://www.motherjones.com/politics/...int-rebel-flag

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Black Confederates - Forgotten Men in Grey - BLACKS OWNED SLAVES TOO





I the city of Charleston SC, in the year prior to the war no less than 120 Black freedmen owned at least one slave.

IRISH WHITE SLAVERY, THE FIRST SLAVES, THE SLAVERY STORY THEY DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW!



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They came as slaves; vast human cargo transported on tall British ships bound for the Americas. They were shipped by the hundreds of thousands and included men, women, and even the youngest of children.

Whenever they rebelled or even disobeyed an order, they were punished in the harshest ways. Slave owners would hang their human property by their hands and set their hands or feet on fire as one form of punishment. They were burned alive and had their heads placed on pikes in the marketplace as a warning to other captives.

But, are we talking about African slavery? King James II and Charles I also led a continued effort to enslave the Irish. Britain's famed Oliver Cromwell furthered this practice of dehumanizing one's next door neighbor.

The Irish slave trade began when James II sold 30,000 Irish prisoners as slaves to the New World. His Proclamation of 1625 required Irish political prisoners be sent overseas and sold to English settlers in the West Indies. By the mid 1600s, the Irish were the main slaves sold to Antigua and Montserrat. At that time, 70% of the total population of Montserrat were Irish slaves.

Ireland quickly became the biggest source of human livestock for English merchants. The majority of the early slaves to the New World were actually white.

From 1641 to 1652, over 500,000 Irish were killed by the English and another 300,000 were sold as slaves. Ireland's population fell from about 1,500,000 to 600,000 in one single decade.

During the 1650s, over 100,000 Irish children between the ages of 10 and 14 were taken from their parents and sold as slaves in the West Indies, Virginia and New England. In this decade, 52,000 Irish (mostly women and children) were sold to Barbados and Virginia. Another 30,000 Irish men and women were also transported and sold to the highest bidder.

Many people today will avoid calling the Irish slaves what they truly were: Slaves. They'll come up with terms like "Indentured Servants" to describe what occurred to the Irish.

As an example, the African slave trade was just beginning during this same period. It is well recorded that African slaves, not tainted with the stain of the hated Catholic theology and more expensive to purchase, were often treated far better than their Irish counterparts.

African slaves were very expensive during the late 1600s (50 Sterling). Irish slaves came cheap (no more than 5 Sterling). If a planter whipped or branded or beat an Irish slave to death, it was never a crime. A death was a monetary setback, but far cheaper than killing a more expensive African. The English masters quickly began breeding the Irish women for both their own personal pleasure and for greater profit. Children of slaves were themselves slaves, which increased the size of the master's free workforce. Even if an Irish woman somehow obtained her freedom, her kids would remain slaves of her master. Thus, Irish moms, even with this new found emancipation, would seldom abandon their kids and would remain in servitude.

In time, the English thought of a better way to use these women (in many cases, girls as young as 12) to increase their market share: The settlers began to breed Irish women and girls with African men to produce slaves with a distinct complexion. These new "mulatto" slaves brought a higher price than Irish livestock and, likewise, enabled the settlers to save money rather than purchase new African slaves. This practice of interbreeding Irish females with African men went on for several decades and was so widespread that, in 1681, legislation was passed "forbidding the practice of mating Irish slave women to African slave men for the purpose of producing slaves for sale." In short, it was stopped only because it interfered with the profits of a large slave transport company.

England continued to ship tens of thousands of Irish slaves for more than a century. Records state that, after the 1798 Irish Rebellion, thousands of Irish slaves were sold to both America and Australia. There were horrible abuses of both African and Irish captives. One British ship even dumped 1,302 slaves into the Atlantic Ocean so that the crew would have plenty of food to eat.
There is little question that the Irish experienced the horrors of slavery as much (if not more in the 17th Century) as the Africans did.
But, if anyone, black or white, believes that slavery was only an African experience, then they've got it completely wrong.

Irish slavery is a subject worth remembering, not erasing from our memories.

But, where are our public (and PRIVATE) schools???? Where are the history books? Why is it so seldom discussed?

Or is their story to be one that their English pirates intended: To (unlike the African book) have the Irish story utterly and completely disappear as if it never happened.

None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P0Scqc7lLvM

Colonials one and all.

Limbaugh: Dems ‘Responsible’ For Confederate Flag, ‘When Did This Become A GOP Problem?’

5:53 PM 06/22/2015
Al Weaver

Conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh questioned why Republicans were being haggled over the Confederate flag issue in South Carolina since Democrats are “responsible” for flying the flag in the state Monday.

During his Monday program, Limbaugh pointed to Sen. Earnest “Fritz” Hollings, who served as governor in 1962 when the Confederate flag was first flown over the South Carolina Statehouse. The host went on to ask if anyone “care(s) about this stuff anymore.”

“Folks, do you realize the Confederate flag flies because of the Democrat Party?” Limbaugh asked initially. “Do people even care anymore about truth, objective truth, ontological certitude?”

“Do people care about this stuff anymore? Does it matter? Or is truth something so elusive that it’s impossible to achieve because everybody has a bias and somebody’s truth is somebody else’s lie?” Limbaugh continued his questioning. “And if a truth is a lie to somebody then it can’t be the truth? Is this where we are now, facts are irrelevant? The Confederate flag in South Carolina. There’s a man. There’s a name. There’s a reason why that Confederate flag flies over the statehouse in South Carolina.”

“His name was Ernest ‘Fritz’ Hollings…Ernest ‘Fritz’ Hollings, well-known Democrat — senator from South Carolina — is responsible for the Confederate flag flying over South Carolina!” Limbaugh explained. “When did this become a Republican problem?”

“When did all this become a Republican problem? If you go to Arkansas… You know, all these old racial segregationists, they’re all Democrats,” Limbaugh said. “Bill Clinton’s mentor from Arkansas, J. William Fulbright, was a proud segregationist! And Bill Clinton signed a proclamation authorizing the Confederate flag to fly over the statehouse in Arkansas.”

“Where’d the Republicans get involved in this?” Limbaugh said. “But there they are, in full blame!”


http://dailycaller.com/2015/06/22/li...problem-audio/

Originally Posted by Newmexican

With the barriers erased, the black middle-class had a field day.... The first chance they got, many packed up their bags and started their headlong flight to greener suburban pastures.

None of their success had even the remotest bearing on the lives of the black poor, who had become even poorer, and more desperate. Many of those poor turned to crime, drugs, and gangs as their only way out.

Now the poorest Americans will be hammered by the illegals that 'Bama is flooding the country with. Under the guise these people being some kind of refugees, they'll be able to choose between and taking entry level jobs or just receiving benefits which really should be reserved for our own people.
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Originally Posted by Newmexican

None of the Irish victims ever made it back to their homeland to describe their ordeal. These are the lost slaves; the ones that time and biased history books conveniently forgot.

Black slave owners have also been forgotten.
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Americans first in this magnificent country

American jobs for American workers

Fair trade, not free trade