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Bowdoin College drops award honoring Confederate president
BDN Staff ^ | Oct. 22, 2015 | By Beth Brogan,

Posted on 10/22/2015 11:05:41 AM PDT by bob_denard

BRUNSWICK, Maine — Bowdoin College will no longer bestow the Jefferson Davis Award, after the college’s board of trustees voted to approve President Clayton Rose’s proposal to end the practice.

The annual cash award to a student of government and legal studies who excels in constitutional law was named for the Confederate president. It was established in 1972 with an endowed gift from the United Daughters of the Confederacy, according to a news release from the college. In 1858, Davis received an honorary degree from Bowdoin College.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Maine
KEYWORDS: bowdoincollege; brunswick; dixie; education; jeffersondavis; joshualchamberlain; maine
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To: central_va

Funny, coming from someone who supports a Manhattanite who hates Southerners and wants to ban the Confederate flag. Trump thinks people in his native Queens are rednecks.


41 posted on 10/22/2015 4:05:22 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway
Funny, coming from someone who supports a Manhattanite who hates Southerners and wants to ban the Confederate flag. Trump thinks people in his native Queens are rednecks.

Shows you what I will go thru to ditch the establishment. President Trump will soon learn who the real Patriotic Americans are, and they ain't from above the mason-dixon.

42 posted on 10/22/2015 4:07:37 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va

If Trump becomes president, prepare to be flooded with illegals. No one from the South will have a job anymore.


43 posted on 10/22/2015 4:09:00 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: nickcarraway

Trump = wall. Nick = stupid.


44 posted on 10/22/2015 4:09:47 PM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: central_va
central_va=gullible

central_va=Self-hating Southerner

45 posted on 10/22/2015 4:12:02 PM PDT by nickcarraway
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To: RobbyS; wideawake
You need to read up on Chamberlain. He had great respect for the Confederates he fought.

Well, he had to live with them in the same country after the war. And you can have "great respect" for enemies as soldiers without thinking much of their cause. Chamberlain went into politics after the war and revised his views when his initial cordiality towards his old enemies met public disapproval. Maybe he changed them again later after leaving politics, but it's particularly hard to say what he would have done if he were alive in our time.

But look, here's the requirements for the award:

The Jefferson Davis Award is a Scholarship sponsored by United Daughters of the Confederacy.
Award Information:
Requirements: Applicant must be a lineal descendant of worthy Confederates or collateral descendant who is a member of the Children of the Confederacy or the United Daughters of the Confederacy. Applicant must have at least a 3.0 GPA, be enrolled in an accredited college or university, and carry a minimum of 12 hours each semester. Applicant must be prepared to pass entrance examination of prospective college or university. Applicant must submit proof of Confederate Military Record, line of descent from Confederate ancestor, a letter of endorsement from sponsoring Chapter, a letter of recommendation, complete financial report, official transcripts, an essay on the significance of a southern heritage, and a wallet-size photo. Original and four copies of the application forms and five copies of all documents, certificates, and letters must be submitted to the Division Director of Education. All inquiries must include a self-addressed, stamped envelope. Recipient chosen by Bowdoin Coll. Eligibility: College freshman, College sophomore, College junior, College senior

That might have gone over well 50 years back, but if there had been any union veterans still around they might well have felt that somebody was trying to stick it to them.

46 posted on 10/22/2015 4:21:28 PM PDT by x
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To: DoodleDawg

I think he liked everything dark

He had not one speck of grey even at mid 60s

Could they dye hair then?

I don’t care who people screw but 99% of black and white couplings down here don’t involve marriage and usually leave a chubby white girl and her family laden with a mulatto baby who doesn’t really fit in anywhere and the grandparents are lefty to make the best of it till another black sire knocks her dumbass up yet again

But it’s really cool up north but down here it doesn’t look like the racial progress one would laud

Only in white culture in the US and rich European nations is it considering wrong to desire your children to marry within their race culture and religion

Crazy


47 posted on 10/22/2015 4:32:43 PM PDT by wardaddy (The establishment needs destroying)
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To: jsanders2001

I think the South ought to honor the wishes of the neoyankee hate mob and quietly leave the Union.

Deo vindice.


48 posted on 10/22/2015 4:38:19 PM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: circlecity

Flanking maneuver.


49 posted on 10/22/2015 4:39:06 PM PDT by gundog (Help us, Nairobi-Wan Kenobi...you're our only hope.)
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To: TYVets

It ought to, Michael Moore is closer to their values.


50 posted on 10/22/2015 4:40:45 PM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Psalm 144

That was inspired.


51 posted on 10/22/2015 4:43:37 PM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: wardaddy; Ohioan; CatherineofAragon; John S Mosby; StoneWall Brigade; Travis McGee

“Likely only Stevens and Sumner and Stanton would approve”

Thaddeus Stevens did, he kept a black mistress. And was rumored to have killed another black consort earlier in his life.

More interesting is that The Evil Genius of the Republican Party had once successfully fought to have a runaway slave and her three children returned to slavery. I imagine he salved his conscience by killing Southerners as penance.

But he was an accomplished hater, his contemporaries attested to that, and he had much in common with the race baiters of today.


52 posted on 10/22/2015 4:56:56 PM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham

No no no

GOP was always groovy

Did you miss your neo abolitionist memo again?


53 posted on 10/22/2015 4:59:18 PM PDT by wardaddy (The establishment needs destroying)
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To: wardaddy

I’m often the last to know...


54 posted on 10/22/2015 5:01:25 PM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: CatherineofAragon

“If the left can wipe out Southern heritage, their next target will be white European heritage. They’ll start calling for the removal of anything bearing Washington’s or Jefferson’s likeness.”

The attacks on Washington and Jefferson are already going on, just not in a big way. Like you say it will only become prominent once the ethnic cleansing of the South is complete.

It’s easy for me to believe that this will happen, because here in SoCal Americans of any sort are becoming a true minority. Imports with no connection to America’s past have no more veneration for Washington than they do for Obama. Less, usually. So calling for his removal will work for them as just another chapter in America’s war on its evil slaveowner past. America will start with Lincoln.


55 posted on 10/22/2015 5:08:27 PM PDT by Pelham (A refusal to deport is defacto amnesty)
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To: Pelham

That’s right. Things are ramping up.


56 posted on 10/22/2015 5:17:11 PM PDT by CatherineofAragon ("A real conservative will bear the scars...will have been in the trenches fighting."--- Ted Cruz)
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To: wardaddy

LOL!


57 posted on 10/22/2015 7:24:21 PM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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To: liberalism is suicide

Indeed East Tennessee was a back and forth between Unionists and Confederate loyalties, over property, trade and whiskey and the “powers” that contained them. A whole lot of fighting over these loyalties on the Cumberland Plateau.


58 posted on 10/22/2015 7:47:44 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: CatherineofAragon

Indeed it is easy for knee-jerk liberals who have “de-educated” the youth about all history inclusive of the creation of our country and its principles, who worship at the altar of central all controlling govt without regard to Rights, Constitution or the States,— easy for them to bash the South, and do it with idiotic fascination and mono-focus on race. And of course, this would devolve to destruction of the Europeans who created this country.

The Left is in alignment with the islamofascists and their goals, much as Lenin aligned his apparatchiks in the Ukraine and elsewhere to “incorporate” the organizational structure and discipline of the islamics- later to be slaughtered and removed. The “Black Lives Matter” group is well oiled racism, who are empowered by the marxist in chief and liberation theology and violently supported by black islamofascists like Farrakhan. It is clear that they are targeting the South, but more generally all white America (including white hispanics). This has to be stopped, and lawlessness not tolerated, by force of arms if needed.


59 posted on 10/22/2015 8:03:58 PM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: bob_denard

Good. Traitors and losers of failed unconstitutional rebellions do not deserve to be honored in any way....


60 posted on 10/31/2015 8:52:04 PM PDT by MikefromOhio
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