Posted on 07/17/2007 11:16:28 AM PDT by Clint Johnson
Please excuse the clumsiness of a 54-year-old, good ole Southern boy writer who don't know much about blogging, but I was curious to read some reactions to Is It True What They Say About Dixie by Mary Knapp. Miss Knapp did a fair job, but some quotes were a little out of context.
The quote about "our ancestors are racists" really should be something like: "Outsiders to the South say our ancestors were racist slave owners so today's Southerners must be racist too." My original quote was meant to show the absurdity of the point of view that some have of today's South being a dark, scary place where white folks would like to bring back slavery.
Miss Knapp also confused 19th century abolitionist/terrorist John Brown with 18th century slave trader John Brown, who I enjoy pointing out was the sugar daddy of today's ultra liberal Brown University.
Freepers can see my entire presentation this Saturday, July 21, at 10:00 p.m. on C-Spann 2 BookTV. This will be the first time that BookTV will show this event, recorded a few weeks ago at a Eagle Forum Collegians meeting in Washington, D.C.
My purpose in writing the book was to point out that The South IS RESPONSIBLE for the republic that the U.S. has become. Left to the power brokers of the Northeast, the nation would still be just 13 states hugging the Atlantic Ocean and we would still be governed by the Articles of Confederation. The South is more patriotic (demonstrated by a 2005 Dept. of Defense survey showing Southerners are twice as likely to serve in the Armed Forces than any other region); The South is more racially welcoming (Census records show black folks are abandoning the Northeast and heading South for better opportunities; The causes for The War for Southern Independence were much more complicated and numerous than the official government explanation of "The North wanted to free the South's slaves."
This Michigan yankee won’t call southerners any more racist than us northerners.
God Bless the CSA bump
“The South Was Right” by James Ronald Kennedy and Walter Donald Kennedy
Also, “The Politically Incorrect Guide to American History” by Thomas E. Woods, Jr.
Very interesting and calls into question the teachings of every textbook in the American school system (which are all published in New York).
I don’t discriminate...I loathe all reportors the same.
Ping
I think the TV footage that was seen during the Civil Rights Era has more to do with that impression in northern minds.
The causes for The War for Southern Independence were much more complicated and numerous than the official government explanation of "The North wanted to free the South's slaves."
In what government documents is this "official government explanation" to be found?
Thanks for Dixie Pings!
An old southern black woman once told me that she prefered the in your face racism of the pre civil rights days. It was out in the open and easily avoided.
She said that the racism in the north came with a smile.
I think he meant the way the war is portrayed by every govm’t school lessen given about the subject. The war was about states rights. The right to keep & sell slaves was one of them. To make the war out to be about the profound & self sacrificing duty of the north to free all the slaves is a self promoting-PC crock of doodie. The north is/was a racist as some in the south.
Ill be watchin!
Southern Heritage, Southern Pride Bump
I hope its broadcast on the website
Not in any gov't document, but I found it in every South Carolina public school history class from grade 3-12.
Oh thanks, I didn’t know they made more books in that series.
Welcome to Free Republic!
Mr Johnson is the author. I’ve just started reading it.
Having recently returned to the SC Lowcountry as a retiree, I surprisingly discover that the majority of my retiree neighbors are liberal fugitives from Florida, the mid-West and New England.
Their anti-Southern white biases are astonishing and their racist superior attitude toward Southern blacks is disgraceful.
Why are they here? Good housing prices, the climate, effective bug spray, and their humility (sarc/).
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