Posted on 12/30/2004 11:00:21 AM PST by Ellesu
Thank you. That's the point I've been making on Rebel Flag threads since '99, but many here can't bring themselves to accept that fact. I tell them the flag, to this native born Southern boy, is a symbol of the region in which I was born and raised, and will always hold dear to my heart, even though I'm now in my adopted home state of Idaho.
As a kid, we all had Confederate flag patches on our jeans jackets, and Confederate flag license plates on our bikes...even my black friends. My little buddy Oscar liked ZZ Top and Skynyrd as much as he liked Parliament Funkadelic. We talked and laughed reciting lines from "Hee Haw" right alongside "Sanford and Son". As our FRiend Smogger said, the flag wasn't an issue until the Orwellian PC Gestapo made it an issue.
I have a sticker that I'd like to put on the bumper of my truck. It depicts the word "Native" as a Confederate flag. Just how does that convey a racist message? It says I'm a native of the South, and that I'm proud of my home region. Southerners may have done some very bad, awful things in the past, but like the rest of the nation, they realized the error of their ways and changed where change was needed. But many feel it necessary to continue punishing the South a century after Reconstruction, and sadly many of those are here on FReep.
Scouts Out! Cavalry Ho!
That, sir, is my point exactly.
Government endorsement is another can of peas. :-)
I will defend Jessica. She is not dumb. She is making multi millions and I bet her dumb puns are just for show. She openly voted for President Bush. She does have old fashioned values, although she shows a lot of skin.
But all the stories about her indicate she is a very nice person and not a fake like most of hollyweird.
NOW THAT would be reality TV...
I appreciate his solo works. Though I do like his bassist pal Victor Wooten.
No.
He also was not a "drinker" in the sence that he drank often. He tended to drink when he was alone, bored, and depressed - like when he was stationed in California in the middle of nowhere with no communications with Julia.
I think that was more true in the lowland south where slavery was a pervasive part of the culture and the oligarchs could stir up fears. I'm not sure if that was a strong factor in the many highland areas of the south. There was a lot of people in those areas which had little contact with slavery that had other reasons to fight. Some fought due to state loyalty, some fought to keep an army from afar away from their home territory and many fought from being compelled by the heavy hand of the confederate government.
EFF HOLLYWOOD...and the schmos behind this (one is an Indian doofuss)
IT WAS ALWAYS CORNY BUFFOONERY ANYHOW
ONLY DAISY'S FINE ASS MADE IT WORTH PERUSING....that and Waylon.
FUNNY THOUGH.....PLENTY OF FREEPERS THINK JUST LIKE THESE SLATHERING FOOLS.
JUST MENTION A NON-PC OBSERVATION AROUND HERE ABOUT ANY MINORITY...RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, WHATEVER....AND WATCH THE SANCTIMONY BEGIN.
THE TSUNAMI OF GUILT KILLED OUR CULTURE OVER TWO DECADES AGO AND WE NEVER EVEN KNEW IT.
MOST UNDER 35 HAVE NEVER KNOWN BETTER...LIKE BACK WHEN FOLKS COULD SPEAK FREELY AND NOT HAVE TO QUALIFY OR EQUIVOCATE EVERY FRIGGIN THING.
I PRAY TO GOD THIS MOVIE BOMBS....
I have the solution for this problem. Everyone should just admit that the original Dukes of Hazard was a horrible and stupid television show and that making a movie based on this travesty is just a really bad idea. Then cancel the entire production. That way the entire silly, confederate flag issue simply goes away.
No, my state needs the money too bad. LOL.
Dang, so you're saying I should just rip up my draft screenplay for "BJ and the Bear: The Movie"?
Where I cannot acquiesce is in the causation.
The states of SC & Georgia sent out what were called "Commissioners" to lobby the state legislations of the remaining Southern states that would eventually make up the Confederacy. The speeches and letters they wrote clearly laid out the preservation of slavery as the main cause for secession.
The Deceleration's of Secession from the Confederate States all lay out, in no uncertain terms, the reason for secession was slavery.
The debate on the motivations of the individual soldier bother me only insofar as they are extrapolated as an acquittal and denial of the actual cause of the war on a larger scale. I realize the average soldier, on both sides, did not fight over slaves directly. Nevertheless, that was the reason they were forced to pick up arms to defend their other reasons.
The best guess I have is sometime around the beginning of 1993, when Clinton took over the presidency. Was it then that, just to take one example, Donna Shalala moved from the University of Wisconsin Madison to Secretary of Health and Human Services-- typifying the movement of political correctness from university campuses to mainstream politics? (And perhaps it should also be noted just which Clinton should be attributed the real credit for such appointments?)
My opinion is that the conflict was an artificial creation largely produced by the slave owning class to further their own narrow interests. Yes, there was a manufacturing interest in the northeast, but I don't think there was real conflict between the bulk of the peoples of north and south. Generally, the people of the north and south had more in common with each other than they did with the powerful economic interests of their own regions that had the greatest stakes in the war.
I would pay someone to paint a Rebel Flag on the roof. But I'd be afraid of being vandalized by libs who can't stand American Rebels.
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