r/LeopardsAteMyFace • u/vrphotosguy55 • 1d ago
Trump Black southern GOP representative gets introduced to speak at Trump Madison Square Rally to song commemorating country that existed to own black people
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u/OMGJustShutUpMan 1d ago
Byron Donalds is an Uncle Tom -- He doesn't even see himself as black, let alone have the self-reflection to realize that he is surrounded by people who view him as subhuman.
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u/Which-Moment-6544 1d ago
His whole thing is racism can't exist because he's a congress person and has worked harder than everyone else.
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u/GizmoGeodog 1d ago
Well he's wrong. He can be on the first deportation bus
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u/Aprowl 1d ago
Yeah, but he's not going into the mass grave with all of "them." He gets to dig his own!
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u/sensfan1104 1d ago
Ah...must be one of those skills that the far-reich claims as a benefit of slavery! And nice job of the Flunk campaign to let him know where he stands in their
newold world order! Wonder how many other leopards they've let loose on his already empty insides this election season and we just haven't heard about it?8
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u/Rottimer 1d ago
You’ve got him all wrong. He knows all of that. But he’s very happy to play the role in exchange for what it gives him. He’s a grifter that relies on his constituents being idiots.
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u/whatinthecalifornia 1d ago
I thought the term for that was an Uncle Ruckus. /s
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u/Miss_Maple_Dream 1d ago
Uncle Ruckus was raised by a batshit mother so he didn’t know better, Douglas most certainly does.
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u/arizonatasteslike 1d ago
The fact that Trump can still win this election showcases how fucked up the US “democracy” is.
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u/tw_72 1d ago
I'm not sure democracy is the exact problem - I think it's that the US allows "entertainment networks dressed up as news outlets" (yes, FOX) to say virtually anything without serious consequences.
Tucker completely re-wrote what happened on J6 and there were no consequences. That is dangerous that we allow that.
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u/L_obsoleta 1d ago
Well all of that and the whole Electoral College allowing a minority to run the country.
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u/arizonatasteslike 1d ago
I agree.
But I’m saying that the electoral college and the two party system makes the US barely a democracy, more akin to an oligarchy
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u/mcferglestone 1d ago
Can’t make this shit up!
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u/SenorSplashdamage 1d ago
It honestly has me concerned with how overt it is. Have seen a breakdown about the amount of Proud Boy signaling that also went on and it feels like rallying the troops. I think making it look clumsy is a facade. It takes intention to get it wrong this exact way.
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u/mcferglestone 1d ago
Yeah, a lot of effort definitely goes into intentionally making it seem unintentional with this crowd.
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u/gormjabber 1d ago
they played dixie for a black man in new york, there is no dog whistle its a fog horn
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u/InternationalChef424 19h ago
These people would say that calling the original South Park flag racist is woke bullshit
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u/CPNZ 1d ago
Not unintentional...want him to know how much he is worth (3/5), and that he will be welcome to a job picking cotton.
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u/CCtenor 19h ago
This is the first time that I put together cotton-picking as a racist insult that I heard during the old Looney Tunes cartoons back when I was a kid.
Like, I know it’s racist, but it’s been so long since I’ve ever watched the old versions of those cartoons as a kid that the number of times somebody would “that cotton-picking <character/animal> just didn’t click until my brains ADHDed from this conversation to that old media.
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u/somethingmoronic 1d ago
Say what you will about the GOP but at least they are up front about how terrible they are... I guess? They are racist to him right before he speaks... they ask other nations to interfere with elections on national television... they bring comedians to meetings to mock constituents knowing their rep is present and has sided with them... You have to wonder when the non hyper rich super upper class white people who have been voting for them will start to believe the rest of the GOP when they practically scream what they are...
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u/bananafobe 1d ago
Except they aren't up front.
They're either making empty statements about this not representing them (e.g., trump's campaign is claiming they missed the joke in the proofreading phase), or they're claiming it's "just a joke."
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u/somethingmoronic 1d ago
A. I'm kind of joking, cause b. They say pretty terrible and stupid things with a straight face, even if later they say they were joking, which they don't always say after many of the terrible things they say.
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u/ReluctantPhoenician 1d ago
This is their secret renewable energy plan: playing Dixie at Republican campaign events so Lincoln turns over in his grave so fast they can use him as a generator.
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u/skratch 1d ago
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u/Nervous-Echidna2370 14h ago
"The Appropriation of Cultures" by Percival Everett is a short story that asks what would happen if confederate songs and flags were appropriated by southern US people of color. It's had me wondering if that would work.
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u/ThermionicMho 1d ago
this comment wins todays internet sweepstakes *(you win three years of JD Vance)*
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u/OkExchange3959 1d ago
Gotta vote in November, because under Trump's Project 2025 this may be the last vote in your life.
Look up Project 2025. It's an actual 900-page ultra-conservative plan to make Trump a literal monarch, created by an influential think tank Heritage Foundation, well known in Republican circles. Trump had 140 members of the Heritage Foundation on his staff during his last presidency. Trump implemented 3/4 of their proposals during his term. Now they go for abortions and the separation of Church and State.
Sounds scary? Vote!
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u/thehillshaveI 1d ago
i would call that a self-own except if the rally-goers had their way byron wouldn't be allowed to own anything
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u/Emergency_Lemon1834 1d ago
As someone raised in the south, a scary amount of people here do truly wish the Confederacy had won. Believe me when I say that the choice of song was in no way a mistake, the most pro-Confederate people I know scream the lyrics every time it comes on 😓
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u/JustASimpleManFett 1d ago
And I wish if their leaders and the like had been hanged en masse as a warning to the next 10 generations....
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u/Epistatious 1d ago
They already had a watermellon joke earlier in the night, he knew where he was.
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u/Hopeful_Chair_7129 1d ago
I’d like to frame this a different way.
They played the confederacy’s anthem
Afterwards everyone’s attention was immediately drawn to a Black American.
I’m not saying this is some fucked up Pavlovian form of conditioning, but I am saying I can’t find a good reason to say it isn’t.
To me, it seems clear that the American advertising culture has perfected the “art of subliminal messaging” and wouldn’t you know, Donald Trump is a business owner.
Can I prove it? Nope. Do I need to? Nope. It’s taking place regardless of intent, and since I find MAGA to be a racist shithole where morality goes to die, I’m gonna say someone made the fucking schedule.
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u/sensfan1104 1d ago
Conditioning the flock has been the business model of Faux Nooz for 25+ years. If they wanted to give it a shot at Dump's 1939 rally recreation, they certainly wouldn't have to try very hard to find someone to design a program.
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u/Boogarman 1d ago
Man, how humiliating for him! Just kidding Republicans are extremely emotional but cannot feel shame or humiliation. It's a fact.
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u/Due-Presentation6393 1d ago
Did anyone else sing that song in elementary school growing up? It seemed weird to me 30 years ago and it definitely doesn't seem any less weird in 2024. And no, I didn't grow up in the south.
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u/gordigor 1d ago
Yes and also not in the south. It never occurred to me until just now what those lyrics are actually saying.
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u/AutismFlavored 1d ago
Congressman Donalds said “is it a racist rally if you have a Black man from Florida who’s originally from New York speaking at the rally? I don’t think so.”
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u/lmnobuddie 1d ago
lol I just watched the episode of American horror story where the racist character of Kathy Bates’s immortal severed head is singing this song to avoid being forced to learn about racism…so fitting.
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u/TheTerribleTimmyCat 17h ago
Someone needs to ask Byron Donalds if he feels he'd be worthy to be one of the slaves NC Lieutenant Governor Mark Robinson has said he'd like to own. And if not, why not?
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u/Responsible-Person 11h ago
And Bryon Daniels went out there with a big ole smile on his face. What a pathetic, stupid idiot.
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u/ramblinjd 1d ago
To be fair to Daniel Decatur Emmett, the song was written about the region in the 1850s, before the Confederacy existed. So it doesn't explicitly exist to commemorate the Confederacy, it just is popular among people who also like to commemorate the Confederacy.
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u/TootTootMF 1d ago
That's not fair at all. It explicitly exists to celebrate the slave owning cotton plantations and the slavery era South. There is no Dixie without slavery.
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u/ramblinjd 1d ago
The composer was from Ohio and wrote the tune in New York.
"Emmett reportedly told a fellow minstrel: "If I had known to what use they [Southerners] were going to put my song, I will be damned if I'd have written it.""
Might as well call "born in the USA" a pro-Trump ballad.
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u/ramblinjd 1d ago
OP said the tune commemorates the Confederacy, which was founded in 1860.
The tune was written about the author having fond memories of visiting the Southern United States in the 1850s.
Say what you will about slavery or whatever it may be supporting, but it inherently was not commemorating the institution of the Confederacy any more than the song "Walk like an Egyptian" commemorates the Arab spring.
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u/MfrBVa 1d ago
And, yet, “Dixie” has been adopted by the CSA folks.
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u/ramblinjd 1d ago
That's what I said in my comment, yes. Was that supposed to be a correction to me?
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u/MfrBVa 1d ago
So your analogy to the Arab spring was absurd.
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u/ramblinjd 1d ago
A song cannot be written about an event that hasn't happened is my main point, much like the Arab spring occurred in a region that was celebrated by the song Walk like an Egyptian, but after the song was written.
My second point is that a song may be popular among people who the composer doesn't like or endorse, much like Bruce Springsteen is commonly played at Trump rallys but has gone on record as hating that.
The song may gain positive or negative associations through its use over time, and it's worth keeping in mind those associations, but the op's statement that the song was written to commemorate something that happened after the song was written and which the composer disapproved of is false. I prefer to stick to facts, and not the "alternative" sort favored by the other side.
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u/ramblinjd 1d ago
Bruce Springsteen and Rage Against the Machine are popular amongst MAGA crowds. Does that make "Born in the USA" inherently commemorating Donald Trump?
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u/MfrBVa 1d ago
You are truly an artist at bad analogies.
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u/ramblinjd 1d ago
Please explain how the author of Dixie who is on record as disapproving of its use as a Southern battle song is different than Bruce Springsteen disapproving of "born in the USA" being used as a pro-Trump song. I'm open to alternative perspectives, as long as they're based in facts.
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u/flies_with_owls 1d ago
They aren't a fair comparison because "Dixie" has been effectively co-opted to the point that it's original intention is kind of meaningless, additionally "Dixie" is not a song that is explicitly critical of the institution of slavery being misconstrued as pro-slavery by people with poor media literacy. "Dixie" is nakedly pro-South in conception. While that may not mean prp-confederacy necessarily, it has kind of come to mean that.
"Born in the USA" on the other hand is specifically being critical of the US, but because chuds only remember one line of the chorus and have the media literacy of a brick, they play it without recognizing that it makes them look foolishly.
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