Straight talk on race

Citing the CNN poll that says "80 percent of Republicans idolize the leaders of the Confederacy," the anonymous crew at the erudite "We Are Respectable Negroes" blog calls a spade a spade from their point of view. Agree with it or not, the perspective is refreshing, esp. relative to the sophistry that marks most discussions about race:

"In the Age of Obama there are few Conservatives who are courageous enough to own that their ideological disagreements are grounded in a deep racial hostility and antipathy to America's first black President: apparently, the White racial frame can tolerate no such upset to its equilibrium. By comparison, the treasonous Confederate ilk who contemporary Republicans have so much admiration for--the former being a lot which should have been strung up by every lamp post and in every town square (as opposed to the gentlemanly peace offered by Grant to Lee at Appomattox)--were much more honest about the nature of their bigotry, and sense of what a right and correct racial order would look like. ... I would like to say that I am shocked and amazed. But given how Barack Obama's election has led the Republican Party off the cliff and into the mouth of madness, I am not at all surprised by their hopeful dreams of a bygone Confederate yesteryear."

Read the entire post here.