Excusez-moi, a snob is it? Well, indeed! This is an absolute outrage, a abominable travesty. I have never been insulted in such a manner and I will have you know the last time someone called me a snob was less 24 hours ago!:)
Posted on 06/13/2005 4:41:07 AM PDT by stainlessbanner
VERBENA (AP) — A huge Confederate battle flag flying over Interstate 65 north of Montgomery will become a permanent fixture, according to officials with the Sons of Confederate Veterans.
The organization bought land on the side of the interstate near Verbena and put up the flag, which has been flying for several months above the tree lines from the top of a large pole, easily visible from the heavily traveled interstate.
Leonard Wilson, commander of the Alabama division of Sons of Confederate Veterans, said the flag will be dedicated in a ceremony at 5 p.m. on June 26.
The flag is located on a little more than half an acre of land just north of where Autauga County 68 crosses over the interstate, about six miles south of the Verbena exit.
"We put the flag up so people could see it," Wilson said. "We are showing off our heritage. The flag is part of our heritage."
Critics of Confederate flag displays say they are reminders of the slavery era and Alabama's racist past, and can damage Alabama's image when flown beside a busy interstate route to Gulf beaches.
I was wondering where you were.
Speaking of strawmen Dit, ya'll can ditch this "we fought for the darkies" myth.
I really like some of ya'll.....I swear I try....lol
Bill Flax writing about African slavery..again. Surprise surprise...
Of course, the South need no more apologize for slavery than Massachusetts for hanging witches, or putting people into stocks for petty indiscretions.
Coming from one of the neo-confederate's chief slavery apologists, I'm not surprised to see you compare lifelong human bondage with such stern Puritan punishments as stocks or the dunking chair. Shame on you [lol].
As far as hanging witches in Massachusetts is concerned, the practice was ended in the 1600s. It's too bad we can't say the same about African slavery in the Old South.
I also didn't see anything about "fighting for the 'darkies'. What is it you are referring to?
The Rioters in New York were Copperheads --- pro-Confederate Democrats ---- the ancestors of Senator Dick Durbin.
And you can throw away your 'we fought for States Rights' fiction.
The Federally enforced Fugitive Slave Act (1850) , and the United States Supreme Court's Dred Scott(1857) decision imposed the Southern slave hound's [chattel] property rights on the rest of the nation and its territories. So much for the Sovereign rights of those States who had or wished to abolish slavery, or the Popular Sovereignty of those settlers living in the territories who wished to enter the Union as free states.
Tell me again who the hypocrite is..?
Not at all. Just trying to understand why some people deny an important part of our history. Not all Southerners do that. And judging from the number of Copperheads/Doughfaces, it's not just Southerners who do.
But there's no need to look far for the reason why people deceive themselves. You provide the answer in your next line:
This might help: God, Country, and Family.
How does that explain why some Southerners tried to tear the country apart in 1861? How does that explain the peculiar views of some Southern politicians before 1865 (or 1965)? It doesn't. Saying the South is about "God, Country, and Family" doesn't help us to understand what happened in history.
What you're doing, though, does illustrate why people deny so much in history. They project their understanding of the present situation back on the past. "The South" is "good," the thinking goes, therefore the South always had to be good.
But "the South" isn't all of one piece, either geographically or historically. It's hard to fit some aspects of Southern history into your scheme, and such high ideals don't explain why many history developed as it did in the 1860s.
If you want to get answers that make the past look good and people feel good, you can make reference to ideals, but if you want to understand why things happened as they did, you have to look at more than that.
The US is big enough and great enough to withstand much criticism. We can admit that not everything in our past was glorious and above reproach and still love our country. To judge by what I see posted here it's not like that with the South for you guys. It has to be all good or it's all bad. Fortunately most Southerners don't share that mindset.
dang....I almost forgot about you...lol
I need to come around these warm and fuzzy threads more often.
Good. That makes you more palatable than the rest of your posse. I knew you were OK underneath after all.
Whatever happened to twodees?
I wish Twodees was back - he was a great poster. Matter of fact and to the point. None of the psycho-babble stuff the Wlat Brigade keeps posting.
You're welcome down here anytime son.
Excusez-moi, a snob is it? Well, indeed! This is an absolute outrage, a abominable travesty. I have never been insulted in such a manner and I will have you know the last time someone called me a snob was less 24 hours ago!:)
shhhhh, the NAAlCP will want to have reparations charged by each flag sold.
Oh yes, the legal beagle of the just across the river secessionists. The 5th columnist crowd. They do try so extra hard to be good little neo-confederates.
Slavery? In America -- I mean in that collection of separate nations. Did that have something to do with the Civil War? Gezz, so often these days I read slavery was such a non-issue, was maybe of minor importance when reviewing places like South Carolina. When was that year? 1960? 1860? 1861? You know they almost have me convinced....of something else.
The slaves of old had only the plantation owner to account to, today, the 'massas' we must bend-over-backwards to accomodate far exceed the mint-julip sipping tyrants who might have spent many an afternoon trying to perfect a chicken receipe using eleven secret herbs and spices.
A hundred years from now people may reflect upon the industrialness of those currently doing battle with bureaucrats and regulations and say, "Yo, I think these guys deserve the reparations".
LOL...about the same time since I was last called a redneck.
Monte Carlo...
my old redneck stomping grounds..
Bond....Bubba Bond.
LOL!
the more i learn about damnyankees, the better i like scorpions, serpents & spiders.
free dixie,sw
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