Bowdoin College drops award honoring Confederate president

BDN Staff ^ | Oct. 22, 2015 | By Beth Brogan,

[bob_denard]

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Bowdoin College will no longer bestow the Jefferson Davis Award, after the college’s board of trustees voted to approve President Clayton Rose’s proposal to end the practice.

The annual cash award to a student of government and legal studies who excels in constitutional law was named for the Confederate president. It was established in 1972 with an endowed gift from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, according to a news release from the college. In 1858, Davis received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College.

[catnipman]

can they get their money back now?

[hinckley buzzard]

Bowdoin College has been on a downward death spiral for a good forty years, accelerated during the disastrous Mills regime in the 90's. No surprise they would purge themselves of the president of the confederacy. Just surprised it took them so long.

[Ohioan]

Hi, wardaddy!

What is really outrageous about this, is that those who heap insults on the progress in restoring good-will among rooted Americans, which prevailed at least among Conservatives North & South, from 1900 through the Reagan Administration, has been deliberately destroyed by Leftists in what I refer to as the Academic/Media complex, over the past 20 years.

It is, of course, part of what the Left intends to be the "end game" strategy in destroying the last vestiges of the work of the Founding Fathers. (I have dealt with that in Creating Hate In America Today.) But as one who grew up in an America that even with the Leftist successes in my youth, still honored the brave men on both sides of the tragic war (1861-1865), it is almost beyond belief that anyone at a Conservative venue would try to sabotage that good feeling; as well as being utterly disgusting.

Hell, even JFK--as bad as he was as President, wrote a book, "Profiles in Courage," which honored the great Carolinian, John C. Calhoun, as well at the Kentuckian Henry Clay, and the famous Massachusetts Liberal, Daniel Webster.

In the America of the middle of the last Century, patriots, North & South, would rise to the playing both of Dixie and the Battle Hymn of the Republic; and a hero like Douglas MacArthur would speak eloquently both of the "Blue & the Grey," on equal terms--even though his father had been a Union General.

I recognize that one can debate old issues, and not cross a line. But when the "debate," is to needlessly attack those who opted for restoring the good will between cultures, that led to the Union in the first place; then it is time to draw a new line. These sort of attacks are totally inconsistent with the Federal Union created in the original coming together to a common purpose. As such they deserve only the contempt of all who understand that common purpose, born in toleration & mutual respect for our differences, as well as a common self-interest.

[wardaddy]

Indeed

Beating on the South and our history in 2015 is nothing more than a tool of the Left and NeoCons today

And they are almost indistinguishable in the Trump epoch

MacArthur’s much younger wife was a Murfreesboro belle from a rich family with strong CSA military heritage....she lived to aged 101 btw

MacArthur’s mom was pure southern with CSA family members who weren’t too kin she married MacArthur’s Union celebré daddy

MacArthur wrote about being immersed in southern veteran men being raised in forts all over the west as a boy where many an old CSA vet found work after the war with the Federals especially in Texas where he attended a southern steeped military academy

MacArthur was a true American who respected and celebrated the integrity of both sides his blood ran red with

Unlike these race baiters today

He would be appalled

Hell Sherman and Grant would be appalled

Likely only Stevens and Sumner and Stanton would approve

But they didn’t want blacks in their neighborhood or daughters bedroom did they?

[76Tiger]

Bayonet charge...liberals.

[liberalism is suicide]

Born and raised in Georgia,descended from more Tennessee families than from any other state that I’m aware of, I learned to respect the soldiers of both sides. I recall that when I was a kid, visiting souveneir shops at battle sites, I was fond of kid-sized headgear from both sides. It turns out as an adult, that in addition to Confederate soldiers in my family history, I discovered a great,great grandfather who was a Tennessee Union veteran. He was from East Tennesse, which supplied the Union with most of its 30,000 Tennessee volunteers. Like my Cofederate kin, I respect him as one who had the courage of his convictions, a very rare quality these days.

[DoodleDawg]

Likely only Stevens and Sumner and Stanton would approve

But they didn’t want blacks in their neighborhood or daughters bedroom did they?

Not Stevens, if stories be true. Supposedly he had a long time affair with his black housekeeper.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Col. Chamberlain would be appalled as well.

[wardaddy]

Lol

Ministering in the most personal way

[GOYAKLA]

How soon will the Hate Southerner’s Movement remove all vestiges of Robert Carlyle Byrd?
I shall never fight in the armed forces with a negro by my side ... Rather I should die a thousand times, and see Old Glory trampled in the dirt never to rise again, than to see this beloved land of ours become degraded by race mongrels, a throwback to the blackest specimen from the wilds.

— Robert C. Byrd, in a letter to Sen. Theodore Bilbo (D-MS), 1946

Yet to this day “they”, love him!

[Jane Austen]

Didn’t that school give Jefferson Davis an honorary degree?

[DoodleDawg]

Ministering in the most personal way

He certainly lived his beliefs.

[wardaddy]

I doubt adultery was in his beliefs but I could be wrong

But he sure had a thing for mulatto women supposedly

Dark rumours surrounded him as well
Including some quite bad

You guys love him

We don’t

History’s mixed on him

I guess when we become a non white nation he may well be one of the old crackers folks are allowed to venerate

[CatherineofAragon]

People eager to bash the South don’t understand that we’re just the lowest-hanging fruit.

If the left can wipe out Southern heritage, their next target will be white European heritage. They’ll start calling for the removal of anything bearing Washington’s or Jefferson’s likeness.

I can see Mount Vernon as a home for unwed black mothers.

[wardaddy]

The dark world basically wants the white world

And self hating whites are eager to help

[CatherineofAragon]

I will never forget watching Greta Van Susteren’s show when she had on a white man who’d been beaten in a polar bear attack by a gang of blacks. He said he knew they really didn’t mean him serious harm, and that he would like to meet with them and talk to them to see if they could get along.

[DoodleDawg]

I doubt adultery was in his beliefs but I could be wrong

Stevens never married. Mrs. Smith was a widow for most of the time she worked for him.

But he sure had a thing for mulatto women supposedly

Smith didn't have any problems with non-whites, that is true. A lot of other people seem to have a problem with them though.

[central_va]

You got things confused, Davis led the South in a Constitutional Republic against a tyrannical unConstitutional monster named Honest Abe. Glad I could set you straight. No charge.

[central_va]

You are viewing the Civil War thru a distorted lens. You've bough off on the fairy tail about the war to free the slaves BS. That lie was promulgated to justify MR. Lincoln's unconstitutional war. Contemporary peoples, even of Maine, new better.

Aren't you supposed to be trashing Trump these days?

[nickcarraway]

I didn’t say anything about about the Civil War, did I? I just said Maine is a Yankee area, and is not part of the South/Confedseracy? Is that incorrect? Are their ocean beeches in Denver?