Doctor offers heritage group money for dorm name

CNN.com ^ | 19 May 05 | AP

[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.

[CurlyBill]

There's a lot to learn about confederate history but some people just aren't 'there' yet.

The more people learn, the less offended they would be.

[cyborg]

agreed

[staytrue]

FYI, presidents are not kings. FYI, 1700's medicine was very primitive by today's standards.

[staytrue]

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.

A basic tenet of conservatism is that one is free to do with their own money anything one wants too. Also, I'm sure the UDC could offer to change the name if the doctor contributed to scholarship instead of giving the money to UDC. Your spin does not cycle well.

[stainlessbanner]

A basic tenet of conservatism is that one is free to do with their own money anything one wants too.

So you understand the UDC has no obligation to accept this offer.

[staytrue]

Everyone is dumping on the doctor for what ? Making an offer on a property. UDC does not need to accept. I see nothing wrong in the doctor's offer. I see nothing wrong in UDC accepting or not accepting the offer.

I fail to see what the complaints on this thread is about.

[stainlessbanner]

Co. Aytch is one Confederate soldier's account of the war 20 years after the cannon's ceased. It is unique in the fact that the author was a private, a fighting man, and he tells the everyday stories: drilling, marching, foraging, picket, attacking, etc. It's written from an "everyman" point of view, not the famous politicians and generals back then. Just a fighting soldier trying to serve his duty and make it back home to marry his girl and start a life.

Sam takes you on an adventure thru every major battle and event that will have you in tears one minute and laughing the next. I have noticed so many accounts are based on Co. Aytch. The scene from G&G where the Yank and Reb picketts trade tobacco for coffee comes to mind.

[smug]

How about the Scene in The Red Badge of Courage where he is walking next to the wounded man. Stephen Crane took that right out of Co. Aytch

[reg45]

He'd be chucking spears in Africa.

Or perhaps he'd just be a lion f*rt or a hippo burp.

[reg45]

where one had food, clothing, medicine and shelter provided

It's no different today, except that the Gub'mint is massah.

[CurlyBill]

Thanks for the review .... I'm looking forward to reading it.

[The Red Zone]

Call it the Robert E. Lee dorm.

[lentulusgracchus]

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.

Well, it's a fair offer, even if it's a bit light, as someone pointed out.

However, the fact that he made the offer demonstrates that he thinks they might take the money; or he's saying, in a concrete way, that they're the sort of people who would take the money. In a way, it's a putdown. And they shouldn't accept it for that reason, or view the offer as friendly.

It's a fair offer, but it's not a friendly one. Like offering someone money for his sister's virtue, in a way.

[lentulusgracchus]

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.

Southerners willing to backbite their neighbors, who can do so in a stylistically sound American-English idiom, have long been a staple of the opinion pages of The New York Times. Tom Wicker comes to mind, and a fellow named Garganus who kicked off the "ban the Confederate flag" campaign in a NYT op-ed piece back in 1991.

Scalawags are a sought-after delicacy in New York.

[cyborg]

I'm reading one of Garganus' books now :o anyway, you have a point about sought after people. Libs do that in a lot of areas.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I think the UDC needs to take the money. The building pictured would make a more fitting "Confederate Memorial Hall" anyway.

[smug]

Lemme guess, you got high marks in gub-mint school, northophile
taught prejudice revisionist history.

[Colonel Kangaroo]

I'm a southern person from a long line of southerners. I even have two or three confederate soldier ancestors. Heritage is OK, but some things that some associate with this heritage I can't go along with. Like the idea that slavery wasn't a major factor in the secession. Or the idea that the great Abraham Lincoln was a tyrant. Or the idea that right side didn't win the war. Or the idea that there wasn't a lot of southerners like most of my mountain ancestors who were against secession and who were oppressed by the heavy hand of the Confederate state. People don't seem to separate the honorable cause of the misguided Confederate soldier with the misguided cause of the Confederacy as a whole.

Thankfully due to the efforts of people like Lincoln, we face an evil world as one nation, North and South together as the one united free people we were meant to be.

[stand watie]

YEP. scalawags are a rung lower on the evolutionary scale of life than a damnyankee.

basically, they are TURNCOATS & HATE themselves!

come LIBERTY DAY, they will LEAVE dixie IF they're smart.

NATURE is UNKIND to TURNCOATS!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

fyi, i'm a CAPSTICK JUNKIE!

i own every title he ever wrote.

free dixie,sw