The old Nit Diddler from Mississippi has finally added his thoughts to efforts by the SCV to honor slave trader, war criminal, traitor, KKK Grand Wizard and neo-slave trader–Nathan Bedford Forrest:
Mississippi NAACP president Derrick Johnson said it’s “absurd” to honor a “racially divisive figure” such as Forrest. Johnson has also called on Barbour to denounce the license plate idea.
Asked about the NAACP’s stance Tuesday, Barbour replied: “I don’t go around denouncing people. That’s not going to happen. I don’t even denounce the news media.”
So in Haley’s world, the ‘news media’ writ large is just like the owner of the “Negro Mart” who betrayed his Nation, committed war crimes and started a campaign of domestic terrorism that lasted for over a hundred years.
And based on the things he has already said, it is clear that the Old Nit Diddler does not have any problem denouncing Barack Obama, Democrats and their policies. It is just when he is asked to call out racism, the Confederacy and murderous traitors canonized by Lost Cause mythology, that Haley is suddenly voiceless. Perhaps it is because to denounce a monster of history like NBF, Haley would have to come to terms with the part of himself that saw white supremacist organizations as benign civic organizations and his own exploitation of Lost Cause hype for political gain. If he confronted the myths and lies of the Lost Cause then he would lose his base and his shtick. Acknowledging and confronting lies of white supremacy requires courage and honor–two qualities that are completely unknown to the Old Nit Diddler. And so he dodges the question, but it will follow him.
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