Posted on 05/24/2007 6:03:30 AM PDT by Rebeleye
...he was stunned to see two large Confederate flags flying from trucks...emblazoned with the words "The South Shall Rise Again." I'm stunned, too, that people still think it is cool to fly this flag. Our society should bury these flags -- not flaunt them...because the Confederate flag symbolizes racial tyranny to so many... ...This flag doesn't belong on city streets, in videos or in the middle of civil discussion. It belongs in our past -- in museums and in history books -- along with the ideas it represents.
(Excerpt) Read more at kansas.com ...
“To this Yankee, it means that Democrat redneck white trash want to go back to the good old days of segregation, lynching, and enslavement of black people.”
Shows how very little you know about the South. It also shows what kind of bigot you are.
“Democrat redneck white trash”? You ignorance is only eclipsed by your hatred.
“Big Johnson” t-shirts used to have a “Dixie Johnson” version which gave that meaning to “The South Will Rise Again.”
I think I still have mine...somewhere.
Let’s see. Where are all the limp-wristed, sissy-boy, liberal wusses currently concentrated? In the North or in the South? Hummm. Which states almost always vote for Democrats? Hummm. Which states exercise the most control over their citizens? Hummm.
“To this Yankee, it means that Democrat redneck white trash want to go back to the good old days of segregation, lynching, and enslavement of black people.”
Please stay up north, then. Far up north.
There are a lot of southerners here in southeastern Michigan. Their families came during WWII to work in the war industries and never left. Most held firm to their southern heritage.
Oh Mark give it a rest. Historical flags are still that. It doesn’t mean they want slavery again, you dolt.
“and wire it’s horn to play the Battle Hymm of the Republic”
If you read the lyrics of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic”, it refers to killing American civilians, families....
What do you think “trample out the vintage where the grapes of wrath are stored”?
Kansas wasn't a border state, we were solidly in the Union for the duration of the War of Southern Rebellion. We don't need to rise again.
Or off its editorial pages...
I don't think this is what they're after at all. I think they want to erase 80 years of American History because they don't like it.
Authoritarian government? Until they walked out the South pretty much ran the government. If it was authoriarian then weren't they responsible?
I imagine that if we’d lost the Revolution against the British Empire, it would be referred to similarly.
(chuckle)
great post.
You think the South lost???
You haven't ever driven around, say, downtown Detroit, and compared it to any Southern city, have you?
LOL!
“Yeeeehhhaaawwwwwhh - The Sauth weeel rahs ahgeeen!
And what lose?”
Lose what? Manufacturing jobs? No, that’s the north. Gun rights? No that’s the north. Republican votes? No, that’s everywhere BUT the South. Population? No that the east and west coasts.
“The South will rise again” is not a military statement, it’s a social and economic one that is proving quite accurate.
‘I always pictured the General Grant as more of a GTO.’
A steamroller would be more appropriate, based on how he eventually won the war.
That's the problem with starting a war. You can't guarantee that you'll win or where the fighting would be. When all y'all rise again you might want to remember that.
An appropriate vehicle for getting plastered and then driving well in excess of the speed limit.
(Don't know that Grant drank much while he was president, but his speeding was the bane of the D.C. police department.)
What it means is, “Eat musket lead”.
“A steamroller would be more appropriate, based on how he eventually won the war.”
You mean with an industrial base run be what were essentially slaves?
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