Two South Carolina politicians want to erect a monument honoring African Americans who fought for the Confederacy. Problem is there weren't any.

Bill Chumley and Mike Burns, two Republicans lawmakers who clearly slept right through history class.

Courtesy of The State:  

Two South Carolina lawmakers want to erect a monument on the State House grounds to African-Americans who served the state as Confederate soldiers. But records show the state never accepted nor recognized armed African-American soldiers during the Civil War. 

“In all my years of research, I can say I have seen no documentation of black South Carolina soldiers fighting for the Confederacy,” said Walter Edgar, who for 32 years was director of the University of South Carolina’s Institute for Southern Studies and is author of “South Carolina: A History.” 

“In fact, when secession came, the state turned down free (blacks) who wanted to volunteer because they didn’t want armed persons of color,” he said. 

Pension records gleaned from the S.C. Department of History and Archives show no black Confederate soldiers received payment for combat service. And of the more than 300 blacks who did receive pensions after they were allowed in 1923, all served as body servants or cooks, the records show.

Confederate law prohibited blacks from bearing arms in the war, records show, until that edict was repealed in 1865 at the very end of the conflict.

Did you just slap your forehead in disbelief at how ignorant these two individuals are? Because I certainly did.  

Yes I am sure the line was quite long for black folks anxious to join the army fighting to preserve slavery, because damn they loved them some slavery.

This is why education is so damn important.

It helps to prevent the creation of more ignorant Republicans.

Trump's Chief of Staff John Kelly said that the Civil War had good people on "both sides." Now why does that sound familiar?

Courtesy of the New York Post:  

President Trump’s chief of staff John Kelly on Monday night praised Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee and said that “both sides” in the Civil War fought in good faith. 

Kelly was speaking during an interview on Fox News when he made the comments, defending the historical significance of the Confederacy. 

“Robert E. Lee was an honorable man. He was a man who gave up his country to fight for his state,” Kelly told the network about the Southern general in the bloody war between the North and the South. 

The Civil War was fought after the South seceded from the Union mostly due to a disagreement over slavery. 

“The lack of the ability to comprise led to the Civil War,” Kelly said.

I'm sorry, in the disagreement over whether or not it is right to own another human being, where is the compromise?

Black folks should only be slaves until age eighteen?

Or only every other black person should be owned by a white man?

This "good people on both sides" argument is of course the same one that Trump made after a white supremacist ran over protesters in Charlottesville, and several others were beaten and even shot at.

Apparently this is an official White House talking point when it comes to defending Confederate soldiers and their statues.

I had essentially given up on any idea that John Kelly had any integrity after he attacked and lied about Rep. Frederica Wilson, and this own proves that I was right to do so.

Mississippi school named after president of the Confederacy to be renamed Barack Obama Magnet IB Elementary School. Oh the white supremacists should just LOVE that!

Courtesy of Mississippi Today:  

An elementary school in Jackson named for the president of the Confederacy will be renamed after the nation’s first black president next year. 

Davis IB Elementary School PTA president Janelle Jefferson told the Jackson Public Schools Board of Trustees at a meeting Tuesday night that the community voted to change the school’s name to Barack Obama Magnet IB Elementary School. 

In September, the board approved a policy that gave the PTA and community the option to rename Jefferson Davis, George and Lee elementary schools. Davis is named after Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy. 

The current board policy on naming schools states they must be named “for persons of good character and prominence who have made outstanding contributions to the school system,” and a “facility named to honor a person shall not be renamed except for compelling reasons.”

The school is apparently about 96% black so of course attending a school named after the man who fought to keep their ancestors as slaves probably did not exactly make them feel welcome.

Of course Mississippi is still a very racist state, so I predict there will be some substantial protests when the new sign with Obama's name is first erected.