Posted on 08/26/2004 7:53:13 PM PDT by RebelBanker
The greatest battle ever fought on the North American continent and the historical aftermath of this titanic contest have been lost forever in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On the same grounds where Robert E. Lee, John Buford and John Reynolds fought for principles they held dear to them, Gettysburg College has decided that political correctness is more important than its historical identity.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans hereby alert all of our members and friends to attend the rally to be held on September 2 and September 3 at Gettysburg College to protest the College sponsored art exhibit featuring the hateful anti-Southern artwork of John Sims.
It has become apparent that neither Gettysburg College nor Gettysburg appreciates the value of Southern tourism. The valor exhibited by Confederate soldiers in this decisive battle is no longer important to officials of Gettysburg or Gettysburg College. The Confederate Battle flag is an honored flag flown on the battlefield by our Confederate soldiers. By promoting what the college calls art in which any intelligent person can see is nothing but thinly disguised hatred, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have decided that an economic boycott of the Gettysburg area will commence on September 3. And millions of American citizens with a love of the South and their Confederate heritage have been deeply offended.
Commander-in-Chief Denne Sweeney hereby calls on all members, families, and friends to avoid Gettysburg and not to spend any money in the Gettysburg area. All people concerned with the anti-Southern bigotry of this area should alert friends, media, and anyone concerned with the growing problem in Gettysburg so that this boycott will become nationwide and not just regional.
After September 3, Gettysburg is to be avoided whenever vacation plans are being made. Please pass this on to all media, lists and Internet services for widespread distribution.
Brag Bowling
National Press Officer
Sons of Confederate Veterans
804.359.0382
the HQ of the KKK is in OHIO. (the last time i looked that wasn't in dixie).
there are more racially segregated schools NOW in the north than there was in the south in 1950 .
NYC has more klan-IDIOTS than the states of MS & LA combined.
AND the damnyankees STILL lie about the southland, her heroes,her bloodspatterd flags, her battle memorials, her separate culture, etc,etc,etc.
in other words, we southrons look north & only see SELF-RIGHTEOUSNESS,IGNORANCE,HYPOCRASY & HATE. nothing more;nothing less.
damnyankees, like you, should be out working 24/7 for dixie LIBERTY, since you dispise us so much.
free dixie,sw
and you LIKE GUYS?????
free dixie,sw
It seems to me that this is blown way out of proportion in terms of "level of offensiveness."
Being white, with historical family roots to Missouri and North Carolina, I am in general terms, favorable to much of what the Confederacy stood for (slavery obviously not being one of them). However, if I were to attempt to understand the feelings of Blacks in regards to the Confederacy, I would think that the above flag represents a clever way to turn a symbol which they may have contempt for, into one that acknowledges the freedom they now have.
I think it should be one we can live with. I also believe those that hate the original flag should rise above their contempt for it and also tolerate that image.
This silly claim that the South is oppressed is nonsense. Our last two Presidents (three if you count Bush senior) are from the South. A disproportionate number of the the higher up politicians in the House and Senate are from the South. Ther South has seen massive economic development in the decades following the end of segregation and the (forced) institution of equality for all citizens of this country.
This silly belief that an independent South would have been some sort of mint julip sipping paradise defies reality.
I guess your wife must have seen a large number of penises in both the North and South to be able to make such a determination.
Nope. You're just obsessed with a war your ancestors lost 150 years ago.
You're like Osama Bin Laden railing against the loss of Al-Andalus.
If the South had been able to retain independence, it would all be mint julips and utopia now, right?
You have a very good point. What would happen to the re-enactments if our Southern brethren boycotted the events?
I really enjoy the re-enactments.
Men of great courage fought on both sides. We should honor them all.
And the Confederate flag should also be honored as a representation of gallant Americans.
Damn political correctness!
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
PITY!(i'm one of the "support staff" of TENTH LA INF, out of Canada)
free dixie,sw
Are you really so mentally deranged that you can only respond with insults?
which are you?free dixie,sw
even i, who bows to nobody in my distrust of everything from damnyankeeland, celebrate the VALOR of the lads in blue.
free dioxie,sw
CRUEL,ARROGANT,SELF-RIGHTEOUS,RACIST,SELF-SERVING,STUPID & EVIL.
My problem with the newspaper article in question is that in no way can it be seen as an unbiased source. You challenged someone to do a google search to see how many blacks were lynched during the New York draft riots of 1863. I took up the challenge, checked a variety of sources, and came up with the numbers. You respond not with a firm number and an equal variety of sources to support it, but with a bit of hysteria out of the most rabidly anti-democratic/pro-abolitionist newspaper in New York, which doesn't give a number, only a visual metaphor. Challenged on that count, you assert that the newspaper reporter was an eyewitness and therefore not to be doubted, then somehow try to turn the argument into one about northern racism.
Newsflash, chief, I recognize northern racism is a pernicious evil. I said in an earlier post that my hometown in Illinois was just about the most racist place in the midwest, a place once mentioned in a major magazine as "the most fishbelly white town in Illinois." I also gave the south full marks for making a lot more progress in race relations over the last 40 years or so than the north has.
You stated that I should support the cause of southern liberty. Tell you what, chief, the day you get 50%+1 of the population of the south to agree with you, I'll tell you to go with God.
You stated that the Klan today in headquarted in Ohio. Which one? Given that the Klan has been fragmented into dozens of small, independent (and often fiercely feuding) groups, it wouldn't surprise me that one of them in headquartered in Ohio. There's the White Knights, the Invisible Empire, the Brotherhood of Knights, the Knights of the White Kamellia and so on. Some of them are headquarted in the North. Some of them in the South. Some of them up in Pacific Northwest.
But back to the newspaper article. Your apparent position seems to be that if it's written in a newspaper by a reporter, it must be true. Is that correct? Because I can easily find eyewitness accounts published in newspapers about the massacre of innocent civilians at Lawrence. For that matter, I can find Nazi newspapers from 1944 telling how the Allied invasion of Normandy has been flung back into the sea. It must have happened, right?
Or, as I expect, will you only admit as truth those things that agree with you and dismiss all others.
Actually, what I expect will be the usual blustering junk, with no real cohesive argument. Just a tirade about my hatred of the south.
I don't hate the south. I just hate hypocrisy and intellectual dishonesty, which is what you demonstrate in spades.
Contact Dr. Lubar yet?
I'm one from Pennsylvania that thinks Mr. Sims project is a HATE crime --- Pure & Simple. Maybe we fought on the WRONG side....
are you trying to take walt's place???
free dixie,sw
free dixie,sw
face it, the TRUTH is exactly what the author said it was.
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