What you want to bet that he has financial connections to some of those microbreweries?................
Posted on 08/04/2017 10:29:19 AM PDT by rktman
New Orleans Saints and New Orleans Pelicans owner Tom Benson may be bringing Dixie Beer back to the Big Easy after buying the 110-year-old iconic brand, but a local activist group is saying “not in my backyard.”
Not long after the removal of the statue of Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee at Lee Circle and three other monuments related to the Confederacy, Not In My Backyard NOLA, a lesser-known grassroots group, is now calling for the city to prohibit the brewery from once again taking root in New Orleans.
“I thought we were past all this nonsense,” Not In My Backyard NOLA founder Dick Palms said. “We have enough local breweries. First, we had NOLA Brewing, and then Urban South, Port Orleans, Second Line Brewing, and all. It’s like there’s a new brewery every day and we really need to diversify our economy so it’s not just tourism and booze.”
Realizing he needed to give his protest a deeper meaning to get national attention, Palms says his group will push to have Mr. Benson’s latest investment banned from building its new base of operations in New Orleans because it’s racist.
“Well… I’m told the term ‘Dixie’ has an inherently negative connotation to it that instantly brings a person back to a time when human rights only were ascribed to white American males. And that is totally unacceptable. We demand that no one support this incredibly racist beer.”
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I was under the impression that it’s still being brewed under a licensing agreement, but not in New Orleans. Is that right?
What you want to bet that he has financial connections to some of those microbreweries?................
"Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager", is excellent.
I found "Dixie Blackened Voodoo Red", one time, in a Cajun place in NYC. It was exceptional.
If the SJW's dislike it, I'll need to invest in some.
Unfortunately the article will probably give some “activist” an idea....
Had some 20+ years ago when stationed at Davis-Monthan AFB in Tucson. I don't know if was Dixie, but the label was Blackened Voodoo Lager. Never could find it after I left Tucson. I always tried to find it at the liquor store, it was a favorite.
I brought some Dixie to a freeper at a rally once. Good deed done
At 12 bucks a sixpack, I don't get it often. But, it's a nice treat.
Yes, it’s currently brewed under license by one of the Wisconsin breweries.
At least some of them know their history, though. "Dixie" is a pre-Civil War term. Well, it's actually closer to pre-Louisiana Purchase, or thereabouts.
So Dick Oalms doesn’t know the history of the term Dixie? Not a very good SJW.....obviously it’s a dog whistle filled with hate
The name “Dixie” was derived from the 10 dollar note printed by the Bank of New Orleans back when the individual states all printed their own money. And the French word for the number ten, which is “dix” (pronounced ‘deece’).
So the only logical next step for the race-baiting poverty pimps is to sue the nation of France (not to mention Belgium, Benin, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cameroon, Canada, the Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Congo I & Congo II, Djibouti, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, [regular] Guinea, Haiti, Ivory Coast, Luxembourg, Madagascar, Niger [not that they didn’t already have a bone to pick with that name], Rwanda, Senegal, Switzerland, Togo, and Vanatu), insisting that they either change the name they use for the number 10 or switch to a base-9 numbering system.
He just pissed cause they don’t come in 40s
A Saints song on the way to the Super Bowl in 2009.
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