McConnell, a Charleston Republican, said the uniform he’s wearing in the picture is the same uniform he wore in a movie about the Hunley, in which he had a nonspeaking role. He also points out he is not wearing a Confederate uniform, but a Union uniform that the hosts asked him to wear.
Sunday, September 19, 2010
an update on the white South Carolina conservatives
I was right in the first place (yay, me!). That's a Union uniform:
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So the internet outrage was about a southern politician celebrating history by wearing a Union uniform and thus showing how racist he is. *rolls eyes*
ReplyDeleteAnd they don't understand why people get a "damned if you do, damned if you don't" attitude about these things.
(Which isn't to say that McConnell isn't racist. I know jack shit about McConnell.)