Rick Perry: Proud Supporter Of The Confederate States Of America

October 6, 2011 By Kirsten West Savali 18 Comments

By: Kirsten West Savali, Your Black World

Gov. Rick Perry (R-TX), has been the subject of many controversial headlines, from inciting cheers at a GOP debate over his high execution record, to most recently, when knowledge of his family’s “Niggerhead” property surfaced.

Now, we discover that the Texas governor has unequivocally voiced his support for the Confederate flag.

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David2001

Plain and simple white racism is the reason why there is a double
standard for whites supporting and spewing racial hatred. This should
come as no surprise to any black person. If Perry were to show up at a
republican debate wearing a white sheet he would get a standing ovation
from white conservatives. This philosophy by Rick Perry and many republicans is a reflection of their white racist base.

The so call liberal media supports this racial double standard as well. They not only don’t confront Perry on his racist views but none of the republican/teabag candidates are ever asked any questions about racism. But of course black people are a different matter. I remember the 2008 democratic debate between Hilary Clinton and Barrack Obama. The late Tim Russet of MSNBC was the moderator asking the questions. His first question of Obama was to ask him to repudiate and denounce Louis Farrakhan for racial hatred against Jews and whites. I have never in my life heard white members of the media demand that
white conservative politicians repudiate their openly white racist
supporters. Louis Farrakhan or ANY black person would never compare to the racist savagery whites have committed in this country.

Being the majority, white people give each other the benefit of the doubt and a free pass on racism and hatred.

Esterbillie61

The more things change, the more some things remain the same. A divided house cannot stand.
A Steinberg

Agree wholeheartedly with your view on whites and their support of racism, of the KKK’s march down Pennsylvania Ave. in 1928. As State Senator of Pennsylvania, PA. said openly before being sentenced to 55 months in Federal prison for corruption, “his colleagues in the General Assembly would support slavery if given the chance”. Whites have indoctrinated their innocent born youth with prejudices, racism and intolerance for centuries, it’s bred in them. They actually believe they’re entitled to rape, murder and rob.
Bahati Sobukwe

Hear! Hear!

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100000839929925 Muata Nowe

So what! When we (black ppl) gonna focus on something other than a ‘race’ issue, on something some white man has said, or on the word ni**er? So what! Racism is here, and it is not going anywhere. Neither will the ramifications of it! Rick Perry and other white men were BRED to consider themselves superior! Their hearts and minds are not changing because we (black people) are bent out of shape over a damn confederate flag. So what! We MUST focus on what we can control: OURSELVES. Jews, Latinos, Asian, Eastern Europeans, Africans, India’s Indians and Pacific Islanders do just that: come to America and focus on nation building within this nation, the United States of America. Forget Rick Perry! And the so called N-Word and a flag. Lord!

Adebayo

Muata Nowe, what East African country are you from? Zambia, Zimbabwe? Because you don’t seem to understand the deep rooted damage racism has caused our African American brothers here in America. You don’t seem to understand the lasting impact of 400 years of slavery and many more years of racial injustice and racial assault that many blacks endured and continue to endure till this day. Jews, Latinos, Eastern Europeans, Indians, or even Africans migrants to America of late were never subjected to what our African brothers endured in this continent. So it is easy for you to dismiss the strong feelings that blacks have regarding discrimination, prejudice, or racism. Maybe if you live in America long enough and truly open your eyes to the plight of our African brothers and Sisters, you might begin to understand their apprehension whenever stories like this surface involving potentional national leaders. There is history behind these feelings.
For your information, the slave master has not treated us in African any better. We are just as screwed and if you are uncertain as to his feelings towards us, do a comparative study on the under-development of Africa by the West, and you’ll see the handiwork of the slave master. If you are not convinced, visit some rightwing blogs to see how they view Africa or African people. Then, you might get small picture as to why black folks here react they way they do.

On the other hand, you try saying anything that makes white folks uncomfortable even if it is true, and see if they’ll simply ignore you and focus on more important things. Try it at your place of work, or if you are a student, try it at your school, and how warm a reception you get.

Guest

Problem is that by no possible mathematical wizardry can you get 400 years of slavery for the Black man in America.

Some say this comes from when in 1555 John Hawkins brought the first slaves to America. OK, well, there’s a couple of problems with this:

First: This would mean that slavery ended in 1955 which is ridiculous on its face. Slavery officially ended with the signing of the Emancipation Proclamation in 1862-63.
Second: John Hawkins didn’t bring slaves to America in 1555, he went to the Caribbean (which last time I checked wasn’t one of the original 13 colonies).
Third: The first record of slaves being brought to America (specifically Jamestown) is in 1619.

1863-1619 = 244

At worst we have 244 years of slavery in America. (Which is still not good, but it wasn’t “All” of America which seems to be forgotten). Even if we say that slavery carried on after it was officially abolished (which of course it did for a few years), there is still no way to arrive at 400. Now if you want to extend the claim to reach to African enslavement in general and move it outside of America, that opens another can of worms’, but in doing so it nullifies the original claim.
One more thought. Why is it the Chinese, Japanese, and others were able to assimilate into the American Society, and the “Black Man” hasn’t (according to some people on this thread). Curious

Bahati Sobukwe

At worst? Let’s be clear, the years of slavery were awful! However, the clamity was in the events of slavery.
We seem to think that Africans came into being in 1619 with those twenty slaves or indentured servants. They were not even the first in North America. The first, were the 100 slaves held captive in 1526 by 500 white men on a coastal river in the Deep South. The Colonly lasted for six months, from June to november, before it was wiped out in violence. The Spaniards, who survived the massacre, fled back to Haiti. The Africans fused with the Native Americans. It was almost a hundred before whites tried that again. I will not give a history on the Olmecs, you can read the late Ivan Van Sertima’s “They Came Before Columbus”, to get that information.
The brillant, late scholar, Walter Rodney, begins our slavery from Africa in 1445 beginning with the Portuguese.

Africans were robbed of their history, their culture consciousness, and the world’s respect. Slavery directly influenced blacks’ economic prosperity and caused them to endure terrorism, Jim Crowism, segregation, marginalization, and a second-class educational system.
The 244 years of slavery, sun-up-to-sun-down work, sleeping on dirt floors, forceful separation from kin define slavery. The treating of humans like animals were slavery, the cutting open of pregnant stomach, whips on backs, cutting off of penises, of feet, of hands, buried alive, burned to death was American slavery. Blacks have endured terrorism during slavery and after slavery. They have 5000 hangings since slavery ended on the record.
A cognizant thinker will realize that slavery did not just harm the Africans’ psyche. Whites were harmed, too. Slavery cemented white supremacy in the whites’ psyche so well that it has caused millions of deaths of their own kind, namely in the two World Wars. This illusionof white supremacy continues to manifest here and the so-called Third World countries.
We need to wake up especially the brain-washed ones like Herman Cain and other black conservatives not understanding what they are conserving.
Racism will be here for a long time, and unfortunately so will self-hate. Look at the racism shown President Obama. Or, that is racism, isn’t it? It is 2011 isn’t it?
Bahati Sobukwe

At worst? Actually, Guest, those 1619′s twenty slaves or indentured servants were not the first Africans on North America soil. I will not give a history lesson of the Olmecs that white people have almost buried. You should read Ivan Van Sertima’s “They Came Before Columbus”.
The first, were the 100 slaves held captive in 1526, by 500 white men on a coastal river in the Deep South. The colony lasted for six months, from June to November, before it was wiped out in violence. The Spaniards, who survived the massacre, fled back to Haiti. The Africans fused with the Native Americans.
You quiver when you speak of 400 years, but you are correct. slavery official started 40 years after those Jamestown Africans.
The rest of the years since 1865 have been frought with oppression.
The late assasinated scholar, Dr. Walter Rodney, author of “How Europe Undeveloped Africa” begins our enslavement in 1445 with the Portuguese in Africa. Your dates are close enough for America. I think 244 years are horrific. Enough to cement racism in America.
Dates are important, but what happen during the enslavement are more significant. Africans were robbed of their history, their culture consciousness, and the world’s respect. Slavery has directley influenced blacks economic prosperity and caused Africans to endure terrorism, Jim Crowism, segregation, marginalization and a second-class educational system.
What’s important was the 246 years of slavery, sun-up-to-sun down work, sleeping on dirt floors, forceful separation from children and kin. Stomach sliced open, tongues cut off, backs whipped, penises cut off, burned alive, buried alive. And then Guest, then these 146 years after slavery up to and including the racism against President Obama is enough to stifle any race.

Miss Tia

I am impressed with your post, I assume you are Nigerian, as a continental African you seem to truly get it. It is not often i meet continental Africans that understand where we are coming from because they have had a different experience. I have been told that Africans on the other hand do not experience racism quite the same way we do as AFrican Americans, i was curious is that true, from your post i can see that it transcends continents and ethnicities, and of course i regret that you or any human being has to experience this. Best of luck to you
Bahati Sobukwe

Amen Adebayo, well said!

JT

I agree, in part, however he is trying to be Prez. Like the Jews we must ensure that does not happen.
Bahati Sobukwe

Muata Nowe, do you think that “Jews, Latinos, Asian, Eastern Europeans, Africans (out of Africa- treated a tad better), India’s Indians and Pacific Islanders” have a 500 plus year racist system in place that guarantees disenfranchisement of them? Sure, more blacks could be successful if they applied themselves, but we are not to be foolish, racism has an effect other than destroying self confidence.
A black person opening a business in very unlikely to have whites-who know that it is black-patronize their business. Nor, will other races patronize their businesses if they are armed with the fact that it is black. How many Chinese, whites, Hispanics, Japanese have you seen in a soul food restaurant, black grocery store, etc.? White people-liberal and conservative- treat black people the same– with distain–only the degree is different
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That flag and that word is harmful to black advancement. If we don’t fight white’s belief that they are superior, and our belief that we are inferior how can we overcome institutionalized, personal racism and self-hate? That is not to say that we don’t continue the struggle to suceed. I am just ponting out that blacks have many things that cause them to falter and we should never lose knowledge of that fact.

We can get over that black -brutal labor. We have been the laborers for over 500 years and most still labor that work with little to show.

http://www.facebook.com/people/Mike-Okereke/100000572058772 Mike Okereke

Governor Rick Perry is reportedly not a very smart man not even because his school record reveals that, or for that matter, a good debater. White ignoramuses like that take solace on their whiteness – the illusioned perception that non whites crave and seek whiteness. My only surprise is that this governor should have come to the realization that today’s America is no longer the America of old, eventhough there are still vestiges of the old America that need to be completely erradicated or obliterated from America’s social fabrics. Why an aspiring President of the United States would embrace confederate principles beats my imagination. Does he think that by being that nostalgic of the confederacy that he would be attracting more whites to be on his side? I very much attribute Perry’s juggernauting to not been very smart – whether politically or otherwise.

JT

It is my opinion that he and most other “tea Baggers” are the newly, not so disguised, KKK.

http://www.facebook.com/twyche Terrill Wyche

There is no such thing as The Confederate States of America. Texas isn’t even a part of the South. It’s part of the western United States. The man is delusional. They have medicine for that and straitjackets.
ACAllgood

Well said David2001 and Muata Nowe, I would like to add just a few statements. Ricky Perry is no different than any other white person in this world that have been taught to see Black People as Niggers, But Still We Rise. Why was the camp named “Niggerhead”? How many Black People has been Killed there? It’s wasn’t named that because the Perry Family Loved Niggers. Ask the town folk, they might tell about those things of the Past, that this new America is in shock about. Why would Ricky denounce His Rebel Flag? The Flag that was flown at Niggerhead Camp doing the Hanging of Niggers. Still the Black People Rose, to the point that an African American is President, not a Nigger or Black American. Civil War would have taken place if a once Nergo then Colored then Black now African American Nigger was President, Commander in Chief, the first order of business would be to even the playing field in the Hatred War. That young Ricky in Mississippi that Killed the Black Brother would be Killed the same way. God is Still on the side of Right. Black People remember, it was by the Power of God that have got us this far, Don’t Turn from Jesus.It is a Time for Everything.
Rayperry4

I would like to point out again, as I have several times before, that the ‘niggerhead’ rock was on a hunting preserve where many people leased time and space to hunt. The Perry’s were one of many. It was not their property and they did not name the rock or paint the name on it. From truthful accounts it seems to have been there for decades, long before Rick Perry was born. Rick Perry’s father painted over the offensive wording on the rock. To continue to blame him for it is wrong. As for slavery, 400 years or any other time, I would also like to point out that Africa has ALWAYS been slavery headquarters, with more Africans enslaved and sold into slavery, and bought as slaves, by their fellow Africans than any other place or people ever on the earth, with the possible exception of muzzies. They too are very slavery oriented and they have enslaved Africans more than any other group. No, white people in America or anywhere else did not invent slavery. And the Olmecs were wiped out long before 1445 or before any white people set foot in this hemisphere. And the worst racists around are those who are so quick to run hide behind the accusation that someone else is racist. Sheeeeeeeeeesh. What ignorance is on display here.