i DO know him & he speaks for the COMMON PEOPLE of dixie. he is NOT a scholar, but IS a TRUE southern gentleman!
we of the SCV DO have SCHOLARS, but all viewpoints of the southland's freedom fighters are VALID & VALUABLE.
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I've listened to him speak and have read numerous articles and letters he has written. It is on these grounds that I am judging him, not on his personal character, which I'm sure is exemplary.
i DO know him & he speaks for the COMMON PEOPLE of dixie. he is NOT a scholar, but IS a TRUE southern gentleman!
Very possibly. And I am a Southern lady. Brag Bowling doubtless speaks for the common people of Dixie, but he is not representing them to the rest of the world as well as he might.
we of the SCV DO have SCHOLARS, but all viewpoints of the southland's freedom fighters are VALID & VALUABLE.
I'm afraid that in some way I have failed to make myself quite clear. I agree with you that the SCV does not need a scholar in this position. But it does need someone with a little more skill at public relations so that people who are not Southern, or are Southern but don't know much about their history and heritage, can hear a clear message. Brag Bowling is not a professional, and a more deft and skilled touch would do better to reach, teach, and persuade people who have misconceptions about the SCV and Southern heritage.
After all, there are millions of people out there who have been misinformed and miseducated by their Yankee schoolmasters. Putting forth the Southern perspective is a big job. When you're trying to reach folks with the message that Southern heritage is something to be proud of and that Southerners are not ignorant traitors, you won't be successful if you write and speak in a bombastic, clumsy way.