All you need to know about the Confederacy

"I have no respect for your ancestors. As far as your ancestors are concerned, I shouldn't be a law professor at Georgetown. I should be a slave. That's why they fought that war. I don't understand what it means to be proud of a legacy of terrorism and violence.

Last week at this time, I was in Israel. The idea that a German would say, you know, that thing we did called the Holocaust, that was wrong, but I respect the courage of my Nazi ancestors. That wouldn't happen.

The reason people can say what you said in the United States, is because, again, black life just doesn't matter to a lot of people."

Spoken by Georgetown University Law Professor Paul Butler, this past Monday on "The Diane Rehm Show."

Peace,
emaycee

The thin line between love and hate

Having been raised Catholic, I well remember when the church was a lot more concerned with the least of its brothers and not so much with the sex lives of the rest of the world (uh, other than its own, sadly).  I don't know if it was the Reagan revolution, the success of the evalengelical movement, or the vastly overrated reign of John Paul II, but somewhere the Church lost its way and became a lot more concerned with the womb than with those already living.

I don't think the Church will ever be the same, but it's good to see that some of its leadership still stands up for the least of its brothers like Georgetown University scholars did when telling Rep. Paul Ryan that justifying his 2012 Budget with his version of Catholic doctrine was well, a wee bit fucked up.  All too often faux Catholics like to pretend the Church is in line with republican teaching when in reality, outside of the right to choose and homophobia, it isn't even close.

Nice of the officials at Georgetown to hold on to Rep. Ryan's testicles for him, too.  For all the media's glorifying of Ryan, he's a very little man who has done nothing but make the world a worse place.

Peace,
emaycee