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Virginia Cavaliers to alter logo over apparent slavery ties
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| June 16 2020
| Ryan Gaydos
Posted on 06/16/2020 6:55:30 AM PDT by knighthawk
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To: knighthawk
Wait ‘til they remember this:
“There once was a land of Cavaliers and Cotton...”
From the intro to GWTW.
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posted on
06/16/2020 8:38:32 AM PDT
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PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: PLMerite
...I was pretty close.
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06/16/2020 8:39:48 AM PDT
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PLMerite
("They say that we were Cold Warriors. Yes, and a bloody good show, too." - Robert Conquest)
To: ThunderSleeps
Great points in your post, thanks.
To: spankalib
I never understood adopting “Cavalier” as UVA’s mascot. Cavaliers were so closely associated with the British Monarchy and Jefferson authored the document that severed this very association.
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06/16/2020 9:05:24 AM PDT
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Don@VB
(Power Corrupts)
To: indthkr
The state of Virginia itself is named after Queen Elizabeth I, who presided over England at a time when slavery was still legal there, as well as a significant number of other "non-woke" public policies. Applies to Maryland, Georgia, the Carolinas, Delaware (Lord de la Ware), Louisiana (France), and America. Insanity.
To: Don@VB
I never understood adopting Cavalier as UVAs mascot. Cavaliers were so closely associated with the British Monarchy and Jefferson authored the document that severed this very association.
The Civil War Virginia cavalry considered themselves the Cavaliers descendants. If you want to have fun, If you want to smell Hell, Jine the Cavalry. Two books written by former members: Bull Run to Bull Run by Baylor and Four Year in the Saddle by Gilmor.
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posted on
06/16/2020 11:34:15 AM PDT
by
Hiddigeigei
("Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish," said Dionysus - Euripides)
To: Don@VB
I think a lot of the so-called First Families of Virginia claimed to be descended from the English Cavaliers of the 1640s. George Washington’s first American ancestor apparently was a Cavalier but the Washingtons were lower down in the social pecking order in colonial Virginia. Likewise with the Jefferson family (although Jefferson’s mother’s family was one of the leading families).
To: Karma_Sherab
So Fisk University will become Fik Univerity and Kentucky State University will become Kentucky Tate Univerity?
To: Palio di Siena
There was a book about 30 years ago called The Public Ivies about a number of public universities which offered an education comparable to one of the Ivy League schools. The University of Virginia was one of them. The College of William and Mary (Jefferson's alma mater) was another one.
To: Verginius Rufus
Verginius, Thanks for the insight. Go Hoos!
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06/17/2020 5:30:09 AM PDT
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Don@VB
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