{"id":21506,"date":"2016-04-28T13:35:44","date_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:35:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=21506"},"modified":"2016-04-28T13:35:44","modified_gmt":"2016-04-28T20:35:44","slug":"republican-racist-self-reliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/04\/28\/republican-racist-self-reliance\/","title":{"rendered":"Republican Racist Self-reliance"},"content":{"rendered":"

The more we think of words like hate, hypocrisy, lies and racism, the more the Republican Party comes to mind.  The Republican Racist Dictatorship of Bamastan display their hatred openly, but when challenged, use self-reliance as an excuse to deny their racist hate.  Could there be any truth to their self-reliance claim?  Lets examine the evidence.<\/font><\/p>\n

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Alabama is currently celebrating Confederate Heritage Month<\/a> with a state-wide holiday and a series of public events aimed at remembering and honoring those who fought on the side of southern, slave-owning states during the Civil War. At one such event this week, organized by the Ladies\u2019 Memorial Association, Alabama\u2019s Secretary of State John Merrill lamented recent calls<\/a> to remove Confederate symbols from government buildings. <\/p>\n

\u201cThe next question that has to be asked is so what\u2019s the next thing you are going to do,\u201d he asked<\/a>, \u201care you going to take a bulldozer to the monument and forget what people fought for to preserve a way of life that makes us special and unique?\u201d <\/p>\n

Civil rights groups, including the Southern Poverty Law Center, slammed the remark<\/a> as \u201cshameful.\u201d But in a follow-up conversation with ThinkProgress, Merrill explained that the \u201cway of life\u201d he celebrates is based on Confederate soldiers\u2019 independent spirit, not their advocacy for slavery.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen we have things happen in our state, we don\u2019t rely on the federal government to come take care of us,\u201d he said. \u201cWe take care of ourselves. For example, after the tornadoes in 2011, or after the massive flooding we had<\/strong>. That\u2019s who we are. That\u2019s who these people were. I\u2019m proud of that.\u201d <\/p>\n

Alabama, however, is the <\/strong>ninth most reliant<\/strong><\/a> on federal aid out of the 50 states, taking <\/strong>far more<\/strong><\/a> in aid than the state pays back in taxes. As for the 2011 tornado damage Merrill mentioned, an auditor <\/strong>recently found<\/strong><\/a> that the state improperly received about $1.2 million in federal aid that it now must pay back. Antebellum Alabama\u2019s \u201cself-reliance,\u201d meanwhile, <\/strong>depended from its founding<\/strong><\/a> on the unpaid labor of hundreds of thousands of slaves<\/strong>\u2026 [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Inserted from <Think Progress<\/a>><\/p>\n

There it is!  like most of the reddest states, the rest of is are supporting them with our tax dollars.  I for one, do not want my tax dollars spent to support racist policies.  That\u2019s why I keep saying that<\/font>\u2026<\/p>\n

Every Republican in office<\/font><\/h1>\n

is one Republican too many!!<\/font><\/h1>\n

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The more we think of words like hate, hypocrisy, lies and racism, the more the Republican Party comes to mind.  The Republican Racist Dictatorship of Bamastan display their hatred openly, but when challenged, use self-reliance as an excuse to deny their racist hate.  Could there be any truth to their self-reliance claim?  Lets examine the […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21506"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21506\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21506"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21506"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21506"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}