Old Times Here Are Apparently Forgotten

Cornell American ^ | May 31st, 2006 | Vanessa Durante

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Must Read from junior at Cornell.

[Philistone]

I have seen that over and over again in public school districts. Oakland, CA (80+ % black) is much more tolerant than lily-white Portland, or Seattle ( < 4% black).

But then gliberals are never more happy than when fighting a battle - preferably one that has been won in advance and doesn't really require any effort.

[ladtx]

Wonder how the kids at Robert E. Lee High School in Tyler, Texas ever get educated, being reminded everyday when they enter the campus and are greeted by that name? Guess they're just not as enlightened as the Ithaca bunch.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

The Confederate flag is not—and was never—a representation of the institution of slavery. The North, in an attempt to glorify its states’ fight to suppress the South’s effort to free themselves from the North’s exploitation,

HAHA

There goes the credibility of the author's effort.

[Leatherneck_MT]

Spoken like a true liberal.

[Red Badger]

I wonder if Mexican-Americans (legals) are offended by the Texas Flag?............

[FroedrickVonFreepenstein]

I don't know about that. It seems to me that every slave bought and sold in this nation was bought and sold under this flag.

[gcruse]

This is astonishing. No, not the notion that the antebellum South was being exploited by the North (that's what Reconstruction was for), not even the notion that racism thrives in the North today (Boston riots? Say, what?). No, the gobsmacked fact is that there is a conservative in Ithaca. WTF?

[Protagoras]

Abolish government schools and the problem disappears.

[Junior]

Because the United States Supreme Court has ruled in favor of protecting the freedom of speech exercised in displaying the stars and bars...

Odds are, no one at this school would recognize the Stars 'n Bars. Hint: It ain't the notorious Battle Flag...

[Colonel Kangaroo]

My contention was less with the slavery part and more about the author talking about the North exploiting the South. To me, that's a laugh. For the first fourscore years of the Republic it was the other way around-the South more often exploited the North.

[Texican72]

I wonder if Mexican-Americans (legals) are offended by the Texas Flag?............

They were offended by the original name of Houston's new Major Soccer League franchise.... Houston 1836... So much so that the name was changed.

[VRWCmember]

I wonder if Mexican-Americans (legals) are offended by the Texas Flag?............

The ones in Houston are apparently offended at any recognition of the importance of 1836 (the year the city of Houston was founded and also the year Texas won its independence from Mexico).

[eleni121]

Abolish government schools and the problem disappears.
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No doubt about it. It's long past time that these festering grounds for illiteracy and prole-creation be gone!

[VRWCmember]

I wonder why the Brits haven't insisted that the NBA franchise in Philadelphia change its name. Oh, because they know better.

[OB1kNOb]

Old Times Here Are Apparently Forgotten

Not by all. I took this photo at the Decoration Day event that I attended this past Sunday.

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I did catch that minor error in an otherwise great piece.

[stainlessbanner]

Thanks for sharing that Decoration Dady picture.

[Thunderchief F-105]

...a very disturbing article, actually.... I lived half my life in Upstate New York (no, not Hillary's Westchester County "upstate"- the the REAL Upstate New York), and half my life in the Commonwealth of Virginia. All we ever learned in our New York public schools about the (mis-named) Civil War that it was fought to free the slaves. Rubbish; pure and simple. Even down here in God's Country, that's pretty much what you hear ("Misser Lincoln? He free' da slaves...!") and so forth.... No, the Confederate Battle Flag, which was never officially adopted by the Confederate States of America, never was and never will be a sign of racism. One thought might help: "they" represent but 13 per cent of the population, but account for 90 per cent of the BMC (Bitchin', Moanin', an' Complainin') that goes on in this country.....!!!