The end game

 

Republicans and southerners are still fighting to continue slavery

Frank Niceley, a republican state senator from Tennessee, took time this week on the floor of the Tennessee legislature to tell his constituents that the U.S. Civil War was still being fought and the South was "winning" (which should come as a hell of a surprise to Robert E. Lee, the leader of the Confederate Army who surrendered to Union General Ulysses S. Grant, and is currently rotting in hell for being a racist slave owner and a traitor).

While it would be easy to point out that Mr. Niceley's definition of "winning" would include vastly underpaying Tennessee's workers, his state being dependent on the federal government's largesse for its financial survival, and Tennessee's poverty level ranking in the top ten of U.S. states, the larger question--and especially so for African-Americans--is what Mr. Niceley is so obviously beating around the bush about:  the desire of certain southerners--and also of the republican party's base voters--to see a return to slavery, especially one that once again puts African-Americans in chains.

In the end, America's Civil War was fought to keep people of color under the thumb of Southern slavery, and that is a battle that Southerners and the republican party are still fighting for one hundred  and fifty-six years after real Americans ended the scourge of the slave trade in America.

Peace,

emaycee