----We're sending our school children to "Dixie Days"!----
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We took Heart Of Dixie off our state license tags because it's a bad word.
Guess that explains why they no longer have "slave auctions" like they did when I was a kid in school...
That's code, of course, for: "Richmond, still racist and stupid 140 years after the Civil War ended . . . "
It needn't be that way.
That's right, pal. Just get on I-95, point it north, and keep going until you get to Philly. They'll understand your POV completely, and you'll fit right in.
You'll even like the Philly cheese steak sandwiches, I'm sure.
I went to school in Cheterfield County and I think it's wonderful. It is nice to know that there is still some sense of historic preservation in my old home.
Davis's bronze statue at Hollywood Cemetery
...Despite having expressed his share of disappointment and bitterness after the war, during the latter years of his life he was reflective on the outcome of the events, and was willing to put the past behind him for the sake of the future of the South. In his final speech that he delivered in 1887, Davis proclaimed:
"The past is dead; let it bury its dead, its hopes, and its aspirations. Before you lies the future, a future full of golden promise, a future of expanding national glory, before which all the world shall stand amazed. Let me beseech you to lay aside all rancor, all bitter sectional feeling, and to take your places in the ranks of those who will bring about a consummation to be wished—a reunited country."
Jefferson Davis died in New Orleans in December 1889, and was re-interred in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond, on May 31, 1893. His wife and children are buried beside him in the Davis Circle.
I dated a girl named Dixie Days, at night I dated someone else.
Here is the entire article.....................Looks like people are starting to believe this war had more to so about slavery than money. History revisionism at its finest.
Here we go again.
It's almost comical.
The latest is "Dixie Days."
We're sending our school children to "Dixie Days"!
Not to a Civil War event, mind you. But to a Civil War event titled . . . "Dixie Days"!
About 400 students from Hanover and Chesterfield counties were to attend yesterday's opening of "Dixie Days" at Pole Green Park in Hanover.
Oh, and there's more: "Dixie Days" was being put on by the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
Yes, those Sons of Confederate Veterans. Specifically, their Cold Harbor Guard Camp.
We do this over and over and over. It's not hard to figure why outsiders refer to us as: "Richmond, the Capital of the Confederacy . . . "
That's code, of course, for: "Richmond, still racist and stupid 140 years after the Civil War ended . . . "
It needn't be that way.
The Civil War is one of the two most important events in our history. (The American Revolution was noteworthy, too, you might say.) The Civil War should be taught honestly and accurately.
Without romanticism.
"Dixie" is the word for the idealized South, of beautiful plantations and happy Negro slaves, or "Gone With the Wind," of halcyon days, of "the land of cotton; old times there are not forgotten."
Sort of glosses over that whole slavery thing.
Argue all you want that the Civil War was about other things. But one side was fighting to preserve a society allowing slavery. The other, against it.
To a whole lot of people, including the descendants of slaves, Confederates were the bad guys.
School officials did help planners of the three-day "Dixie Days" present the war fully. And the presenters' Web site shows they have taken their responsibility seriously. Students can surely learn.
But apparently parents received letters saying only that this would be a Civil War event, according to yesterday's Times-Dispatch. There was no mention of "Dixie Days."
At least one parent complained when she found out.
"I am appalled that the school is sponsoring this trip," the parent said in removing her child. "This is something that brings up a lot of negative thoughts."
So here's my proposal: Do "Dixie Days."
But do "Yankee Days," too.
Deal?
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As it stands I see no outrage or condemnation of the Countries still profiting from black slavery yet they become frenzied over anything that has to do with the South that hasn't had slavery in over a hundred years ago.
It's real easy to fight a war that has already been won. Pick a real battle and fight against that. But I guess then they would have to admit that blacks have long held blacks as slaves and profited from it,a fact their history conveniently leaves out.
I've got a better proposal. Do 'Dixie Days' and start teaching real history in the yankee run school system. See how fast the tyrant and his minion generals fall out of favor. Won't have to worry even hearing about 'yankee days' ever again
We do this over and over and over. It's not hard to figure why outsiders refer to us as: "Richmond, the Capital of the Confederacy . . . "
That's code, of course, for: "Richmond, still racist and stupid 140 years after the Civil War ended . . . "