What's your point? Wanna bet Mr. Sims is a Rat himself?
Posted on 03/17/2007 4:30:38 PM PDT by groanup
TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — When artist John Sims sees the Confederate flag, he sees "visual terrorism," and a symbol of a racist past. When Robert Hurst sees the flag, he is filled with pride as the descendant of a soldier who fought for the South during the Civil War.
Their differences have flared into a war of words, catching a local museum in the middle.
An art exhibit by artist John Sims, entitled 'The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag,' is show on display at the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Friday, March 16, 2007, in Tallahassee, Fla. The exhibit has sparked controversy with the local chapter of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and they have asked the museum to remove it.
Hurst walked into the Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science this past week and saw an exhibit by Sims, including a Confederate flag hung from a noose on a 13-foot gallows in a display titled "The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag."
Hurst asked the museum to remove the display, along with 13 other pieces by Sims.
The museum, however, announced Friday it is standing by Sims' work, on display since Feb. 26, because it wants to inspire dialogue in the community about a symbol that engenders a diversity of strong responses.
"There's a balance between the nature of the art that we show and the outcome that we seek, which is to promote dialogue and conversation, and have you maybe think of something in a slightly different way," said Chucha Barber, the museum's executive director.
Hurst, commander of the local Sons of Confederate Veterans chapter, said Friday he has lost respect for the museum, calling the display of Sims' work "offensive, objectionable and tasteless."
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All Confederates were Democrats.
Hardly, since by nature they resisted tyrannical Federal oppression. Democrats eat that like candy.
What's your point? Wanna bet Mr. Sims is a Rat himself?
Our nation should have a law where a person can walk into a museum and demand that art they find objectionable be removed and the curator would have to remove and burn the art immediately.
/sarcasm
Alltogether now, SO?!.
What were colonialists, democrats or republicans?
point taken. Problem is most of the money that pays for this blather comes from those who care about traditional values.
Is the Mary Brogan Museum of Art funded by tax dollars?
And if so what party was in control of Congress and the White House when the NEA funding for Mary Brogan Museum of Art was approved?
"What were colonialists, democrats or republicans?"
Subjects of the Crown.
Actually they were Revolutionaries that worked toward building a "REPUBLICAN" Form of government unlike any government ever created before...the parties didn't come into play until Jefferson/Madison believed Hamilton and the Federalist such as Adams had overstepped the boundaries of the Constitution by created the Bank of the United States.
Then in political history we see the Democrat/Republicans take on the Federalist. Jefferson was sharply at odds with fellow cabinet members John Adams and Alexander Hamilton, both of whom he found to be too authoritarian and too quick to assume overwhelming power for the part of the executive. He resigned from the cabinet in 1793 and formed the Democrat-republican party. Heated competition continued. Jefferson ran for president in 1796, lost to John Adams, and, most uncomfortably, this made him vice president under a man whom he could no longer abide. After a single meeting, on the street, the two never communicated directly during the whole administration.
Southerners who remained loyal to the U.S. Government during the Civil War became Republicans during Reconstruction, while the rebels stayed Democrats. Here is an article about a prominent southerner who remained loyal to Old Glory:
http://grandoldpartisan.typepad.com/blog/2007/03/george_washingt.html
Who pays for this shit?
Ooh, that's nice. I can smell him from here.
So what big deal
When someone discriminates by holding a few guilty for what had been practiced by all for over a hundred years, I call that "emotional terrorism".
Big whoop. Everyone is entitled to an opinion, but what are those people called that FORCE others to abide by their will by throwing two-year old style hissy fits?
(grin)
Mr. Hurst should have taken out his lighter and set fire to the offensive art work, thus exercising his own freedom of expression. The Supreme Court has ruled that torching the US flag is such expression, so the Confederate flag would certainly be fair game.
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