Posted on 08/14/2015 3:23:11 PM PDT by Impala64ssa
If you can't say anything nice, you must be a liberal. Seriously, is there ANYTHING left that doesn't have racist undertones anymore?
The anti-South/anti-Confederacy craze is still around, in case you'd forgotten. Admittedly, there's a lot that's been going on lately - but the language police are still rounding up words and symbols and history that remind anyone anywhere of slavery in America. It's not enough that they have to dig up long-dead Confederate generals or vandalize monuments or steal private property. Nope. Now they're banning the word "Dixie."
According to this, progressives in North Carolina want to change the name of the Dixie Classic Fair because the term "Dixie" is racist. For. Real. From the article - Councilman James Taylor told FOX8 that some folks find the word “offensive” and some folks are “angry” with the name. He said that as a progressive city – they need a name that “everyone can appreciate.” [...]
The Dixie Classic Fair has been around since the 1950s – and nobody around town seems to be all that irate – according to FOX8. They said their reporters could not find a single person who took offense at the name.
“I thought it was ridiculous,” resident Dina Nelson told the television station. “I mean, there’s no reason to change the name of the Dixie Classic Fair. I mean, it’s a Southern name – but there’s nothing racist about it.”
It's no dumber than a professor trying to get Dixie State University in St. George, Utah to change its name. And as well all know, Utah was such a central point of the Confederacy... oh wait - NO IT WASN'T! I've mentioned this before - "Dixie" was a nickname given to Southern Utah because early settlers in the 1840s and 1850s worked to grow cotton and other crops associated with the American South because they wanted to be self-sufficient and not depend on importing those goods from elsewhere. They planted, raised, and picked their own cotton without any slaves AT ALL. And THAT'S where the school took its name from - it has NOTHING TO DO with the Confederacy! Geez...
What else do we have to ban now? Winn-Dixie grocery stores, for one. By extension, the super-adorable movie (and book it's based on) "Because of Winn-Dixie." And one of my all-time favorite video game characters from one of my all-time favorite video games, Dixie Kong (I freaking LOVE "Donkey Kong Country 2" for Super Nintendo. One of the few times a sequel was even better than the - already excellent - original.)
List 'em off in the comments. What else will we probably lose because liberals see racism under every rock and tree (and Dixie Cup)?
Recognize these lovely ladies? The scored a HUGE smash hit back in 1964 Chapel of Love They call themselves.....wait for it....The DIXIE Cups This song still gets plenty of airplay, and these women still perform at some oldies concerts. It's usually played at a typical car show with all the other popular oldies. BTW my lovely wife is armed with a bunch of coupons and is planning to go on a shopping spree at the local Winn-DIXIE I guess we're a couple of racists.
My ninth-grade girlfriend will be so distressed to hear this LOL.
Dixie Chicks?
I guess the liberals won’t like the Dixie Chicks anymore.
Yes. LOL. And the Dixie Chicks are liberals.
General Robert E. Lee surrendered to General Ulysses S. Grant on April 9, 1865. The next day, despite rain and mud there were some 3,000 people in the streets celebrating. Crowds serenaded President Lincoln throughout the day. “At length,” wrote a reporter for the Washington paper Daily National Intelligencer, “after persistent effort, the presence of Mr. Lincoln was secured. Three loud and hearty cheers were given, after which the President said:
‘FELLOW CITIZENS: I am very greatly rejoiced to find that an occasion has occurred so pleasurable that the people cannot restrain themselves. [Cheers.] I suppose that arrangements are being made for some sort of a formal demonstration, this, or perhaps, to-morrow night. [Cries of `We can’t wait,’ `We want it now,’ &c.] If there should be such a demonstration, I, of course, will be called upon to respond, and I shall have nothing to say if you dribble it all out of me before. [Laughter and applause.] I see you have a band of music with you. [Vocies, `We have two or three.’] I propose closing up this interview by the band performing a particular tune which I will name. Before this is done, however, I wish to mention one or two little circumstances connected with it. I have always thought `Dixie’ one of the best tunes I have ever heard. Our adversaries over the way attempted to appropriate it, but I insisted yesterday that we fairly captured it. [Applause.] I presented the question to the Attorney General, and he gave it as his legal opinion that it is our lawful prize. [Laughter and applause.] I now request the band to favor me with its performance.'”
“In accordance with the request, the band struck up `Dixie,’ and at its conclusion played `Yankee Doodle,’ the President remaining at the window mean-while. The President then said: `Now give three good hearty cheers for General Grant and all under his command.’ These were given with a will, after which Mr. Lincoln requested `three more cheers for our gallant Navy,’ which request was also readily granted. The President then disappeared from the window, amid the cheers of those below. The crowd then moved back to the War Department, and loud calls were again made for Secretary Stanton.”
Less than a week later, Lincoln was dead.
https://rhapsodyinbooks.wordpress.com/2009/04/10/april-10-1865-president-lincoln-asks-the-band-to-play-dixie/
He went on to say he wanted to rename it the 'Douchebag Classic'
Off topic but that song “Chapel of Love” was about girls and their boyfriends going to get married . that song is hetero normative and bigoted against all the lesbian gay and trans whatever couples out there who want to go to the chapel of love. What about them?
The point is, is that Blacks have been so manipulated into believing the hype
about being constant victims they fall for this crap. If they didn't there would be
no more hypersensitivity about this and people would get on with their lives.
When a liberal wants, you deny them. That way lies sanity.
Slaughtering their own sacred cows using their own tactics is also fun for the adventurous.
Example:
“Black people using the word ‘nigger’ devalues them as a people because it is a word created and popularized by white Democrat oppressors.”
Which is 100% accurate and uses their SJW terminology. They then have to argue that it is actually a good thing or they would have to admit to the truth of it. Which of course they cannot without offending other SJWs and blacks.
American By Birth, Southern By The Grace of God
Dixie Cups.
Why not make up a list of allegedly racist words, pass the list around, and ask everyone to use them as much as possible, no matter who may or may not be listening.
Words are just words.
It is the ultimate in control to prohibit words from public use, with public punishments from demands of apologies to name calling to seeking to remove people from their jobs.
Do you know how to avoid getting a Southern accent? Never drink from a Dixie-Cup.
Rebels wiil not be the Vanguard of the Revolution?
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