[quadrant]

Take this from a man is a Southerner on both sides of the family ever since Europeans arrived in North America: honor the past but don't cling to it.
To do is as foolish as those folks who want to re-fight the Mexican-American War and set up some sort of independent Chicano state in the southwest.

[wardaddy]

honor the past

That is the problem...honouring that past has been under whithering attack for about 15 years now. An attack designed to defelct from real more serious reasons for problems in certain communities and to be exploited for identity based political gains.

These fights were unheard of in my youth. You (and others) mistake defending my ancestry with other things