Posted on 01/20/2006 2:50:00 PM PST by oxcart
True, they've all moved into my neighborhood. Even I am beginning to speak like I came from Long Island (sounds like "lawn guyland").
Interesting. Why then do you suppose they were comfortable using that word around you? My experience in the U.S. Army taught me that racism is not limited by geography or skin color.
Indeed the South has been occupied territory for 140 years. And even though Washington DC gets even more of our tribute money than they did then, it's evident today's Republicans are trying to waste it faster than the Republicans did then as well
How the South belatedly won America's civil war
Doesn't look like that to me. Everyday I turn on the local news some damn transplanted yankee is complaining that we don't have this or don't have that 'down here'. I'd ask every self respecting Southerner to do a good deed at least once a month. Buy a bus ticket for a yankee and get them to go home.
I don't know. I guess because I was white? I suppose I could have protested, maybe it's a character flaw that I didn't. It was a commonly-used word in private circles in the south. I know this isn't limited to the south, but it's just what I noticed. I found it odd that a fellow officer would throw that word out so casually. But you're right, there's plenty of racism to go around. Old-school Boston Irish are not the most tolerant bunch either. I fall in that demographic, but I don't use racial slurs. Now calling someone a fag or homo is a different story. That is so commom in the military it isn't even funny. I'm guilty of it too. We do it as a joke though. I call my best friends "fags", "homos" , "Meat Gazers", you name it. It's akin to Black guys calling themselves the "n" word in casual conversation. They do it all the time like a term of endearment.
Also, isn't the Civil Rights Act the reason why gub'mint can now call every saloon, bar, restaurant and bowling alley a "public accommodation" and ignore the property rights of the owner?
They didn't.
Just as one can be a Texan and American at the same time, so can one be a southerner or "son of the south" and be an American at the same time.
Any "myth" you referenced was your own creation.
I know!
"If the South had won, we wouldn't be The United States, we'd be two different nations."
In the event that a draw was fought and the north accepted
the succession yes.
But not necessarily, had the south "won",that is had they vanquished the north, there might have evolved a Unified States of America, and it's certainly possible that while
it would have been different to begin with, after a hundred
and fifty years, it might look much as we do today.
"Cant we all just get a long?"
LOL, no Im not getting in the middle of this...watching is just fine. :)
I'll give you credit buttinski.
You at least live in the one state of the northeast left with some balls to withstand the Red Diaper Babies.
That gives you some credence to shoot yer mouth off but it's fading fast.
The Republic died in 1865. Federalism unchecked. Enjoy.
btw....all yankee transplants are not bad news...i took pains to clarify that as i often do.
Say the same thing for the American Revolution, then? Without the French Naval bombardment, Cornwallis could've crushed Washington. And Washington, the first American Rebel, fought for a country that accepted slavery.
The American Revolution was good in your eyes because a Southerner won. The Civil War was bad because Marhta Washington's descendent surrendered at Appomattox?
and they don't say the N-word in the North?.....have you been to Bensonhurst, Bay Ridge, Indiana, Ohio, rural New York State, the Pine Barrens, etc?
you're fooling yourself.
I had a place in Manahattan from 80-88 and I heard it all the time. When they realized I was Southern, they would crank it up thinking it was ok with me not realizing my daddy spanked my butt for using that word because his family considered it white trash vernacular....that being said, I would imagine nearly everyone has said the word at least privately to themselves in anger. It's certainly required lingo amongst hip hop culture....probably one of the most used nouns in their rhyme.
i bet anyone with a military career in mind these days is mighty careful about offending any minority...the military seems to be our preeminent social engineering petrie dish.
that's a reasonable argument not dripping with the customary vitriol one finds on WBTS topics
I salute you!
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