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Bowdoin College drops award honoring Confederate president
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| Oct. 22, 2015
| By Beth Brogan,
Posted on 10/22/2015 11:05:41 AM PDT by bob_denard
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To: bob_denard
When will the insanity end?
To: bob_denard
What would Joshua Chamberlain do?
To: circlecity
a Whitworth should have picked him off
To: bob_denard
Why would the UDC endow such a scholarship (in 1972?) at Bowdoin College in Yankee Maine - home of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain - unless they were deliberately thumbing their nose at the man who helped break the back of the Confederacy by honoring Constitutional law incompetent Jefferson Davis in Chamberlain's backyard.
It seems more like a weird practical joke than a scholarship.
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:16:18 AM PDT
by
wideawake
To: bob_denard
The Jefferson Davis Award has been replaced by The Michael Moore Award.
A classy move there people (/s)
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:18:05 AM PDT
by
TYVets
To: LeoWindhorse
A thousand Whitworths had a thousand chances, but he was too tough for any turncoat surrender monkey to kill.
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:18:22 AM PDT
by
wideawake
To: bob_denard
Are they going to give the money back to the UDC or just randomly eliminate the endowment’s name and keep the money?
To: circlecity
Certainly not this.Chamberlain had class.
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:20:18 AM PDT
by
RobbyS
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To: wideawake
You need to read up on Chamberlain. He had great respect for the Confederates he fought.
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:21:48 AM PDT
by
RobbyS
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To: vetvetdoug
It said in the article that they were giving the money back.
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:23:09 AM PDT
by
Timber Rattler
(Just say NO! to RINOS and the GOP-E)
To: wideawake; wardaddy
Obviously, it was intended as a gesture of good will. Most of us wanted to end the bitterness that grew out of the War and the criminal Reconstruction era. After the War with Spain, where both the North & South came together as Americans, once more; we entered an era or mutual or reciprocal respect.
That the contemporary Left has succeeded in torpedoing mutual respect, is one of the most disgusting--and stupid--aspects of what passes for contemporary American culture. The UDC are a highly principled group; and they should get their funds back, after this mockery of good will.
And your insult as to Jefferson Davis' competence seems more intended to offend, than to have any other purpose.
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:26:32 AM PDT
by
Ohioan
To: AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; bigheadfred; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
JLC was a professor at Bowdoin College before and after the war:
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:37:17 AM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: RobbyS
He had great respect for the Confederates he fought.His famous magnanimity to the defeated probably didn't have much bearing on what happened in 1972.
I wonder if the original documents governing that scholarship are available?
To: bob_denard
Why would a college in Maine bestow such and award anyway? Last time I checked Maine is the most Yankee, least Southern state there is. Was there a Down East Confederacy that I don’t know about?
To: SunkenCiv
Clayton Rose, the President of Bowdoin, is a liberal that matriculated at Chicago University and Harvard before he took the charge at Bowdoin. He’s one of the liberal apologists toward blacks that the left embraces. I would not doubt that he’s close to Obama in some fashion.
To: jsanders2001
“When will the insanity end?”
Hard to say. It all started with Vortigern’s decision to hire pagan Saxon reivers.
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posted on
10/22/2015 11:58:23 AM PDT
by
Psalm 144
(The mill grinds exceedingly fine.)
To: vetvetdoug
As a liberal and probable lifelong Demwit, he should be apologizing to blacks, and to everyone else.
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:01:34 PM PDT
by
SunkenCiv
(Here's to the day the forensics people scrape what's left of Putin off the ceiling of his limo.)
To: Ohioan
The civil war was from the victors perspective about preserving the union
For NeoCons here it’s about race
And it’s personal usually but they never admit that
They are cowards
They say nothing about who they are
And they lie
You’re dealing with one now
One that lies about her past
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posted on
10/22/2015 12:03:47 PM PDT
by
wardaddy
(The establishment needs destroying)
To: bob_denard
The annual cash award to a student of government and legal studies who excels in constitutional law was named for the Confederate president. Oh the irony.
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