Few would disagree that Texas Governor Rick Perry, the Tea Party poster-cowboy, can ride along with that statement. Recall he’s already threatened this President with secession... “civility” was trampled-upon a long time ago.. Can it be that the Lone Star State’s Governor hopes to ignite America’s 2nd civil war...?

If Perry does... he ain’t the only one.

When you take a long-ass gander at these so-called United States of America, it doesn’t take x-ray vision to see the obvious: there’s no-need for the Southern loyalist to “re-enact” the Civil War... it never ended; the Confederates won’t let it.

The widespread “Sesquicentennial celebrations,” which applaud acts of treason and sabotage, serve as testaments to “The hate that won’t die!” Matter-of-factly, the Confederacy - it’s malicious mind-set, its primitive perceptions of people and arrogant Aryan-like attitudes have, over the last century or so, spread to all ends of this nation.

You got Johnny Reb and Colonel Beauregard everywhere, from Idaho to Key Largo, LA to Chesapeake Bay... sympathetic in some manner to “The Cause.” For Rick Perry, the legions of “Ricky Bobbys” who blindly honor revised redneck history, their “War of Northern Aggression,” or “The battle for Southern Independence,” for Southern states to maintain their audacious “God-given right” to enslave, murder and rape Africans.

This is a “perspective” undeniably impacts the Euro-American (White Folks) belief system still today, providing the philosophical foundation of racial hatred, the informal segregation still practiced in virtually all facets of the country, and the “grumbling for some form of “legal” apartheid to return.

They seek to cease with the informalities.

That’s right - the idea that Blacks are inferior compared to Whites - who’re clearly superior - this still seems a logical, deeply-seeded sentiment to millions of White Americans, something worth fighting over in 1865, and perhaps again today? What but such a stone-cold indifference explains the pomp n’ circumstance being applied to festive, lavish balls and extravaganzas - officially certified events dignifying and glorifying a perverted Southern way-of-life which cost uncountable Black lives to manufacture?

It’s either an sought-after ignorance of the actual barbarity of the “uncivilized South” or an deafening arrogance - allowing one to ignore the horrors of American Slavery, to detach from human-life... producing the capability to condone it all, an ability to say “so what,” rationalize, minimize, slight... justify the unjustifiable?

It seems un-flippin’ believable... but a large, monolithic chunk of White America desires to return to the Pre-Civil War era, and if they can’t have that... then say after Reconstruction failed; that’s the golden era of race relations many of these Tea-Baggers yearn for: Get a visual of Mississippi, circa 1898; share-croppin, Jim Crow, Black Codes and State / County / local town justice; translation - vigilante justice, the birth of the KKK... home grown US terrorism in its infancy.

Trees, all over the country, baring strange fruit . . . year ’round.

Do you think today, 2012, the rank n’ file real Americans would still come, from miles around to picnic, as scores once did - to behold a Black man, hell, let’s tell it like it really was - a women or child - swing, like in the good ole’ days...? Considering the popularity of Rush, Beck, FOX News... clearly I can’t rule it out.

Admittedly that’s an gruesome observation, but based on listening to AM hate-Radio, reading the Townhall.com propaganda - just by putting my ear-to-the-ground, I can easily conclude these self-titled “Patriots” - the peculating population of pissed-off Confederates below... and above the Mason-Dixon Line, desire to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War - because they, still today, in the 21st century, hold what the Confederacy stood for and defended in high-regard.

Ain’t that a bitch?

The still-proud Confederate Governors of both Mississippi n’ Texas, like much of their states’ White population... don’t read history and see treasonous Benedict Arnold’s who were willing to kill their brothers n’ uncles... for the individual’s right, the right of the state they lived in - to legalize and maintain the enslavement of Africans. They see Johnny Reb not letting some “elitist” tell them how to treat their property / Niggers - they see a hero.

Ain’t that a...?

See, this conflict cannot be solved via Washington legislation. This bottomless racial / cultural gorge splitting America is about humanization, trying to get White folks to accept that Black people are... people, and equal to Whites. The lingering civil unrest, the never-ending cold civil war in this country starts and ends with isolated, insulated White America... their continuing ambivalence and indifference to the people they stepped-on

in their efforts to hand-make an empire.

And no goverment can legislate morality...

My paramount object in this struggle is to save the Union, and is not either to save or to destroy slavery. If I could save the Union without freeing any slave I would do it. " - Abraham Lincoln, August 22, 1862

Look, if “mainstream” White America had made measurable progress in the area of human and civil rights since... August 22, 1862 then we wouldn’t see their deliberate rekindling of another Civil War today.

The Archie Bunker base is instigating and agitating, fanning-the-flames of hatred under the melting pot, with their over-the-top vilification of Black people - starting with the Black President upon whom they’ve declared war, combined with traditional racism and oppression. The “Gestapo” type tactics of local police forces throughout the country and the abandonment of the public education system are partnered with the exodus of breadwinner jobs, the creation of private for-profit prisons and 4th world health-care options...

See, much of White America regards Black folks in the same dismal...“I never owned any slaves...” light, akin to the ambivalence the “Great Emancipator” had for us - and that’s the precise problem -there unique case of amnesia and the denial of “White Privilege.”

The current financial crises is being manipulated by Tea Baggers who hope to sabotage the US economy, remove the safety-net, crumble the strong federal government which orchestrated the end of “states’ rights” - the right to privately pimp, exploit, oppress and abuse Americans-of-color.

This divided land stands on the verge of what? The shot-gun wound of racism is still open as far as Black Americans are concerned, while for sympathizers of the Confederacy, anger and resentment remains alive n’ well in the hearts n’ minds of card-carrying Tea Party good ole’ boys. They want to put people back in chains, and if they can’t do that - they at least want to return to an “Separate n’ Unequal” America.

They seek to continue the Civil War, to start Civil War II... in-order to take back their country.

Granted, after 1865, the civil war halted... yet it didn’t end, it became a different type of war, perhaps a cold civil war, where there have been, over the last 150 years, what are “moments” - like right now, and hot-spots erupt - the wide-spread malice is so thick in the air you can taste it. It’s best summarized as a concerning, alarming racist rage the Confederate extremisst still maintain to this day... demanding, if anybody’s attention - that of Black folks.

It can’t be dismissed as “Rednecks gone mad.” They want to rehang the “Whites Only ” n’ “No Dogs - No Mexicans” signs all over town, and if it takes another civil war...

This Tea Party “hatred” is organized and structured; a case of businessmen, doctors, teachers, cops, engineers, butchers, bakers and computer-chip makers showing their true racist feelings and prejudice emotions. These tasteless Civil War commemorations are opportunities for them to show their true Grey n’ Red colors they can’t pass up.

BlackCommentator.com Columnist, Desi Cortez, was hatched in the heart of Dixie, circa 1961, at the dawning of the age of Aquarius, the by-product of four dynamic individuals, Raised in South-Central LA, the 213, at age 14 transplanted to the base of the Rockies, Denver. Still a Mile-Hi.

Sat at the feet of scholars for many, many moons, emerging with a desire and direction… if not a sheep-skin. Meandered thru life; gone a-lot places, done a-lot of things, raised a man-cub into a good, strong man, produced a beautiful baby-girl with my lover/woman/soul-mate… aired my mind on the airwaves and wrote some stuff along the way. Click here to contact Desi.