Bias against Southerners misses the mark

Pasco Times ^ | July 11, 2005 | RICHARD COX

[TexConfederate1861]

Forget HELL!

[TexConfederate1861]

You are some piece of work.
Hopefully you won't have to experience the humiliation this man went through.

[Non-Sequitur]

Hopefully you won't have to experience the humiliation this man went through.

Well boo freakin' hoo. Let me ask you this. If men like Innes Randolph, who chose to stoke their festering hatred for the North and for the entire history of this country for years after the war in reaction to losing, are worthy of your respect then are men like Robert Lee and Nathan Forrest, who advocated acceptance of the defeat and reunification of the country, worthy of your contempt?

[OB1kNOb]

[Non-Sequitur]

Forget HELL!

At times like this I have to say that Don Henley has it right:

You drag it around like a ball and chain
You wallow in the guilt; you wallow in the pain
You wave it like a flag, you wear it like a crown
Got your mind in the gutter, bringin' everybody down
Complain about the present and blame it on the past
I'd like to find your inner child and kick its little (butt)

Get over it
Get over it
All this...(complainin') and moanin' and pitchin' a fit
Get over it, get over it

With apologies to Mr. Henley, I cleaned up the language a bit for 4ConservativeJustices.

[Non-Sequitur]

Shouldn't that sentiment be 'Virginian by Birth' or "Georgian by Birth' or something like that? What with all y'all placing state over country and all

[TexConfederate1861]

You miss the point. Robert E. Lee didn't experience the same degradation that this man went thru. It was a lot easier for him to be noble. (Though he would have been in similar circumstances, due to his nature.) As I said earlier, I don't think he literally hated the Declaration or the Constitution, rather focuses on those as elements of the "Glorious Union" I am reading BETWEEN the lines.

You haven't walked a mile in this man's moccasin's, so you might show just a shred of compassion. His words are insulting, but look at the emotion behind the words.

[TexConfederate1861]

This coming from a California Peyote-Smoking freak.
(Yea, I like the Eagles too, but face it, they were freaks!)

[OB1kNOb]

Shouldn't that sentiment be 'Virginian by Birth' or "Georgian by Birth' or something like that? What with all y'all placing state over country and all

I've said nor inferred nothing of the like. That's just how you choose to interpret it. I thank GOD I was born American and I especially thank GOD that he saw fit that I was born and reared in the South. I have a special affinity to the state and regional culture that I live in and personally think that there's not a better place on Earth to live, but I suspect most other folks feel the same way about their particular state/region/culture/heritage. If they don't, then sad for them. Don't ever question my love and patriotism for my nation just because I'm proud of my southern heritage and culture. Thanks.

[Preachin']

We won't even get into southerners driving in a "blizzard" when they get 3/8ths of an inch of the white stuff on the ground. Us Yankees can't wait to get home and watch the evening news when you clueless southerners get a dusting of snow.

There are few factors that exist here that many other areas don't contend with.

1- Because it's so humid here in the south there's usually a great deal of ice.

2- Because the snow is usually so thin, our cars pack it down early and it forms into ice.

3- Because we don't get a lot of snow, it's not economically feasible to prepare for snow (i.e., plows and salt trucks) like it is done in the areas that get a lot of snow.

[Non-Sequitur]

This coming from a California Peyote-Smoking freak

But appropriate.

[4CJ]

Talk about an exemplification of the 'lost cause'. Totally reprehensible & shockingly similar to another crowd fully possessed with only brianwashed, blind hate for the United States.

The same as voiced by numerous yankees including Garrison who stated that the Constitution was 'a covenant with death and an agreement with hell', and that separation from the South was their only recourse.

[4CJ]

Bump. Kudos sir.

[Non-Sequitur]

Robert E. Lee didn't experience the same degradation that this man went thru.

What degradations did this man go through that Lee did not?

I am reading BETWEEN the lines.

You are offering excuses. I've read interpretations that suggest that Randolph's work was actually a sarcastic exaggeration of southern stalwarts post war, but I also believe that sometimes things mean exactly what they say. And I think that's the case here.

[TexConfederate1861]

Well, I disagree, so let's leave it at that.

[4CJ]

In short, it all needs to be fixed, before people can talk about "moving on," because the damage and its effects remain with us today.

Bump. Regarding the 14th Amendment and dubious legality of it's ratification, the best analysis of such was made by Utah Chief Justice Albert H. Ellett in Dyett v. Turner 20 Utah 2d 403 (1968).

[taxed2death]

regarding your reply in post 710... I KNOW!!!1 I KNOW!!!!!
Jeeeeeeeeeeezzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz!
You southerners can't take it when someone pokes a little fun at you...
Chill out!
Read the rest of my posts before you flame me...ok?

:)

Have a wonderful day..
FRiend

[stand watie]

go argue with klanwatch about where the NATIONAL HQ of the klan-morons is AND with the History Channel.

we have discussed this before.

reference "miles of dead Negroes", go argue with the NY Post of the next day after it HAPPENED.

we KNOW you don't want to admit what RACIST, hateFILLED, arrogant filth the DAMNyankee elitest ARE & have always been, but what i posted is incontrovertible FACT!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

NOPE. but you really appear to be a MORON, with neither logic/brains/education.

based only on your DUMB-bunny posts, you have nothing but STUPIDITY, prejudice & hate to offer to the forum.

PITY.

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

and YOU are NORMAL, American or otherwise???

i think NOT.

almost everybody on FR thinks you are clueLESS & a DUNCE.

head over to DU & be with the other DU DUMB-bunnies.