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Doctor offers heritage group money for dorm name
CNN.com ^ | 19 May 05 | AP

Posted on 05/19/2005 8:19:08 PM PDT by CurlyBill

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (AP) -- A black doctor has offered $50,000 to a Southern heritage group to buy the naming rights to a Vanderbilt University dormitory at the center of a legal fight over whether it should be called Confederate Memorial Hall.

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KEYWORDS: confederacy; confederate; dixie; povertypimps; racehustlers; rebel; southern; statesrights; udc; vanderbilt
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To: staytrue
What the hell do you know about it.

Far more than you apparently.


If UDC wants to sell the naming rights, let them.

Do you actually think I would have the power to stop them?


Are you connected with UDC ?

No, but I do know many members.




Go back and hug the leftist professor who has brainwashed you on these issues.

21 posted on 05/20/2005 4:44:50 AM PDT by CurlyBill (Democratic Party -- Wimps without ideas whose only issue is to oppose Republicans)
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To: staytrue; SouthernFreebird
SouthernFreebird is expressing the same point that Alex Haley once expressed. Take for example, many of the books by big game hunter/guide Peter Hataway Capstick (Death in the Long Grass is my personal favourite), that point out that life expectancies in Africa are pretty short. If my ancestors had a choice between
  1. being eaten alive by any number of wild animals, possibly crushed by elephant, hippo, rhino etc, killed by any number of poisonous snakes, or faced life as a SLAVE in Africa, sacrificed in a ceremony, killed to be eaten by cannibals, killed due to the death of a tribal king (in some tribes upwards of 500 women were killed at the death of such), OR
  2. slavery in America, where one had food, clothing, medicine and shelter provided (no so for Northern workers living on starvation wages), where one could work extra to earn monies to purchase their freedom, and their descendents could one day become king, or hold positions of authority
I would pray to God that my ancestors had the common sense to pick choice 2 - at least they'd have a chance, as would future generations.
22 posted on 05/20/2005 5:43:01 AM PDT by 4CJ (||) OUR sins put Him on that cross. HIS love for us kept Him there.(||)
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To: staytrue

I suppose people will get angry if they do sell the rights. He's successful and putting his money up front and people still have something to say. I happen to think the dorm name should stay the way it is BUT I'm amazed at how some people don't even consider why a black person would be offended at the term 'confederate memorial hall'.


23 posted on 05/20/2005 5:45:57 AM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: cyborg

Further, the black doctor is not advocating a new law to force a name change. He is trying to buy it fair and square. But the pro confederacy freeper nuts seem offended that he is trying to even that.


24 posted on 05/20/2005 7:03:35 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: 4ConservativeJustices

In post 22, you state slaves were provided "medicine". That is a stretch considering the "state of the art" in the 1700's. You also state that the descendents of slaves coult one day be king. Another reach, that simply shows, you are probably incapable of being objective here.


25 posted on 05/20/2005 7:05:33 AM PDT by staytrue
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To: CurlyBill

The fool is offering what the UDC contributed back in the 1930's. The court plainly stated any offer tendered would have to be adjusted to today's consumer price index.

Hamilton is an @$$.


26 posted on 05/20/2005 7:08:53 AM PDT by azhenfud ("He who is always looking up seldom finds others' lost change...")
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To: staytrue

Well... I would not get offended at a building named Confederate Memorial Hall but then I'm not from the South. Some southerners will just have to recognize that for some black people, confederate does symbolize slavery and not anything to be proud of. I think it's a shame but that's life. There's a lot to learn about confederate history but some people just aren't 'there' yet.


27 posted on 05/20/2005 7:11:38 AM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: staytrue
A slave in the 1800 cost the equivalent of $80,000 today. Only a fool would withhold medical treatment from a slave. Contrary to liberal education teachings, medicines are not a recent invention of white people. Native Americans, Africans, orientals etc have had medical practices going back centuries - albeit new concentrated drugs are usually more effective due to that aspect.

Secondly, Colin Powell, Condi Rice etc are prime examples of black advancements in this republic - both names have been floated for President.

28 posted on 05/20/2005 7:14:06 AM PDT by 4CJ (||) OUR sins put Him on that cross. HIS love for us kept Him there.(||)
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To: 4ConservativeJustices
This ol boy should donate his money to the university for educational purposes: grants, scholarships, etc.

THAT would make a real difference in some students' lives. Instead, he is willing to throw it away on a whim to change the name of a building.

29 posted on 05/20/2005 7:22:09 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner

I think you are right.


30 posted on 05/20/2005 7:24:09 AM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: cyborg
Building name change: bad investment
Building the future: good investment
31 posted on 05/20/2005 7:28:12 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
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To: stainlessbanner

He should fund a scholarship!


32 posted on 05/20/2005 8:13:29 AM PDT by 4CJ (||) OUR sins put Him on that cross. HIS love for us kept Him there.(||)
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To: CurlyBill
the "blue-haired brigade" will NOT sell out!

free dixie,sw

33 posted on 05/20/2005 8:23:46 AM PDT by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: staytrue
how do you feel about the "lincoln-worshiping, damnyankee freeper nuts" that defend the invasion of blue-clad WAR CRIMINALS that came south to loot, burn, commit rapes & "carry-off" every thing in sight?

for SOME northern soldiers the war was about "preserving the union". unfortunately however, for a LARGE percentage of union soldiers, the war was about ONLY about FUN & PROFIT.

free dixie,sw

34 posted on 05/20/2005 8:29:42 AM PDT by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: cyborg
the reason, that ANY southern black persons think that the struggle for dixie LIBERTY had ANYTHING to do with slavery, is that from birth the damnyankee SPIN MACHINE has told them that the WBTS was a crusade against slavery.

this self-serving PROPAGANDA is furthered by the "gub'mint publick screwl sistim".

to quote the late Professor Arnold Toynbee of Oxford University,

"History is FICTION, popularly agreed on by TYRANTS & CONQUERERS."

free dixie,sw

35 posted on 05/20/2005 8:35:31 AM PDT by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: stand watie

Well I do think that the more outspoken the 'heritage not hate' people are the less people will believe that. I'm glad there are sayings like 'heritage not hate' because it does a lot to dispell the preconceived notions.


36 posted on 05/20/2005 8:50:49 AM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: cyborg
what WILL eventually counter the damnyankee SPIN MACHINE are PATRIOTIC southrons like H.K. Edgerton & the members of the Black Confederate Soldiers Memorial Assn.

those MODERN "lads in gray" are doing VALIANT service for the True Cause of Dixie Freedom and are a CREDIT to their gray-clad, barefooted, frequently hungry, CSA ancestors !

free dixie,sw

37 posted on 05/20/2005 9:13:17 AM PDT by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: stand watie

Well you know the 'damn yankee' mentality is very entrenched. Many are addicted to the drug of feeling they are needed and are being helpful. I wish people like HK would come up north but I hate to say that they'd not be welcomed by enlightened liberals.


38 posted on 05/20/2005 9:16:45 AM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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To: cyborg
i'm SORRY. i didn't make myself clear.

patriotic SOUTHRONS don't care what they think "up there";we are ONLY interested in educating OUR dixie citizens.

we just want the damnyankees to:

GO AWAY & LEAVE US ALONE!

and NO, i'm sure that the hate-filled, arrogant, ignorant, REVISIONIST damnyankees would NOT like H.K. or this "dixie injun lad". NOT PC, you know. lol.

free dixie,sw

39 posted on 05/20/2005 9:42:54 AM PDT by stand watie (being a damnyankee is no better than being a racist. it is a LEARNED prejudice against dixie.)
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To: stand watie

Yes but there are plenty of southerners who are just like damn yankees doing most of the dirty work today. I do believe they are called scalawags aren't they? The revisionists wouldn't be able to trash the South if they weren't people in the South giving approval to what they're saying.


40 posted on 05/20/2005 9:57:03 AM PDT by cyborg (Serving fresh, hot Anti-opus since 18 April 2005)
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