War over the Confederacy Rages in Texas

The Seattle Times ^ | @/11/07 | Howard Witt

[BnBlFlag]

AUSTIN, Texas — The Civil War ended nearly 142 years ago, for most of the country anyway, but bitter battles over how zealously that war should be remembered are erupting in Austin, the Texas capital.

First, rock musician Ted Nugent wore a T-shirt featuring the Confederate battle flag — a banner sometimes employed by Southern white-supremacist groups — at the Jan. 16 inaugural ball for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, prompting criticism from civil-rights groups.

A few days later, the state's elected land commissioner, arguing for a more "balanced" view of history, marked Confederate Heroes Day — an official state holiday commemorating Gen. Robert E. Lee's birthday — by accepting a donation from the Descendants of Confederate Veterans for an archive-preservation project.

At the flagship campus of the University of Texas, officials said they soon will convene a committee to decide what, if anything, to do about four statues of Confederate leaders, including Lee and Jefferson Davis, that greet visitors at the main campus entrance.

[BnBlFlag]

There's just no end to the Leftist attacks on our precious Southern Heritage. It's past time for us to draw a line in the sand and say enoughs enough and tell these Pricks to STFU!

[BnBlFlag]

Ping!

[BnBlFlag]

"Jerry Patterson, the elected State Land Commissioner, marked "Confederate Heroes Day", an Official State Holiday.....".
So now it's controversial to observe an "Official State Holiday".

[Viking2002]

Give them enough time and an extra surge of bile, and Leftists will find ways of defiling the intentions of the Union army once they bury every vestige of Southern heritage. Their disdain for anything human goes back to the era of Cro-Magnons displacing Neanderthals in the cosmic pecking order.

[Between the Lines]

"All too often," Patterson said, "the introduction of a young black man in the South [to that flag] is when a pickup truck blows by and a beer bottle comes flying out and on the back of the bumper is a Confederate battle flag."

So should we ban Ford ,Chevy and Dodge Ram logos that are also on the back of these same pickups? Or should we just ban pickups altogether? Maybe just beer bottles?

[righthand man]

bump

[JSDude1]

And the media wonders why Southerners overwhelmingly vote Republican!

[Between the Lines]

"It's confounding, this continuing idolatry of the Confederacy," said Gary Bledsoe, president of the Texas branch of the NAACP and a persistent critic of Confederate nostalgia, "because if you cut it to its very essence, what's being said by the symbolism is that the Old South was right and slavery was OK."

Yes, that is what these two women appear to be saying.

[freekitty]

Haven't we gotten past this racist thing? Oh, I forgot, it makes a lot of people a lot of money.

[KarinG1]

"You don't walk through a Jewish neighborhood waving a swastika and say, 'I just want to do this because my great-uncle fought for the Nazis and I'm proud of the fact that he reached the rank of general,' " said Bledsoe, an Austin attorney.

Yankees had slaves, and the Yankee flag flies over almost every government installation in the country. Is it next on the hit list? I have never owned slaves or enslaved anybody, but I am proud of my heritage. Southern by birth, Texan by the grace of God.

[stainlessbanner]

Dixie Ping!

Thanks for posting, BnBlFlag.

[stainlessbanner]

Here's an article by Jerry Patterson: Looking back at the Confederacy with modern eyes [FR].

Good stuff from Patterson.

[righthand man]

couple more Flag bearers

[Bonaparte]

Actually, if this is the way they want the play to come down, then the democratic party, which is the historic party of slavery, should be required to change its name and make no public reference to its shameful history.

But first, they should be required to make an extensive, televised apology to all the black people in this country for keeping their ancestors in chains for so long, right up into the 1960s when so many of them voted against federal civil rights legislation. In fairness, I think we should give them a year and a half to prepare for this, so they can do it right -- just before the 2008 presidential conventions.

Hey, what's good for the goose is good for the gander, right?

[Bonaparte]

"Yankees had slaves..."

That's a fact. And they were the first to enslave Africans. If memory serves, when the War Between The States broke out, it had only been about 15 years since the last New York slave had been freed.

[Bonaparte]

Oops, better make that 25 years. Yes, I think the last slave in New York state was freed right around 1836 or so. They phased it out over a decade or so, just to go easy on those Yankee slave owners.

[cpdiii]

The flag of The United States of America flew over slaves for over 150 years. The flag of the Confederacy flew over slaves for 4 years. There were free black men, many from New Orleans and Louisiana, that fought the North under the flag of the Confederacy! The war between the North and the South was not about slavery. The war was about state rights.

Slavery was an abomination. History is about facts.

[StoneWall Brigade]

Thanks for the ping SB the left will not stop there attack on our beloved southern flag and history

[tkathy]

Every time this flag is drug out and hits the MSM, it pounds another nail in the coffin of the conservative movement, labeling conservatives as bigots. The civil war is over. It's time to forgive, forget and move on.

[catfish1957]

Let's see... They can have a whole month for their history, but we cannot have one day to honor our ancestors. I thnk the NAACP needs to be exposed for the sham it is.

Anyone have a way to page H. K. Edgerley? Now there's a hero.