LEAVE MO-JOE ALONE!!! You big bully.
Posted on 09/30/2010 3:55:02 AM PDT by golux
The University of Mississippi has terminated its mascot, "Colonel Reb." The mascot, an archetypal Southern gentleman with a hat, cane, and a little bow-tie, is of course racist.
Affable, bearded and jaunty, with a bright costume that cleverly foiled his dark history on the plantation, Col. Reb, when he was alive, looked rather like that other infamous slave-driver, Col. Sanders, whose inscrutable and permanent smile these days (in markets where he still shows his face) offers only a faint clue as to the fortunes he's made in his long, post-war masquerade as a peddler of fried chicken.
"We just want it to be over," said one Mississippi student on the subject of Col. Reb's execution.
Watch your back, Sanders.
There is of course nothing sacred about a football mascot or a corporate brand, and nothing particularly sad about the disappearance of either one, except for the fact that now there is nothing left of Southern symbolism to erase.
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And now we learn that what legions of Americans consider to be a transcendent symbol of extraordinary military leadership and valor, states' rights, indefatigable heroism, enduring pride and strength in the face of terrible odds and calamitous defeat – the Confederate battle flag – is now officially deemed a symbol of hate by the U.S. armed forces. Prospective members of all branches of the armed forces who happen to have a "Confederate flag" tattoo are automatically rejected.
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When they once again encounter their ancestors, which I believe they will, how will so many Americans account for their feeble treachery?
Maybe, like the Mississippi student, they will say: "We just wanted it to be over."
I wonder what some of those old heroes might say in reply....
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(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
“....We live in a new South. Changes have taken place since these warriors laid themselves upon the alter of their country for service or sacrifice. What changes, social, political, moral, financial, wide-sweeping, revolutionary changes—changes unprecedented in the history of this or any other republic, ancient or modern! The South is conservative. Amid all these changes the South, in her devotion to her gallant sons, remains unchangeable. It may not be otherwise. Her’s is an inconsolable widowhood. True to her convictions in the past, she cannot repudiate them in the future. None the less, at the same time, is she loyal to the restored Union. She is at home again in the temple of her fathers. Pledging her solemn troth to peace in the hour when her armies surrendered to overwhelming numbers, the South has abided by the abitrament of the sword, She has never sought since, nor will ever have cause or occasion in the future to seek a severance of the cords binding together national solidarity. Once again we are united and, I hope, indissoluble confederacy, forming a grand and glorious democratic republic. Our flag waves from Maine to Florida and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. The setting lustre of this May's sun glides the uniforms of blue and gray mingling as brothers in this requiem service. Soldiers are always magnanimous. Only they keep up sectional strife who were invisible in war and are now stern and invincible in peace. “The bravest are the tenderest, the loving are the daring.”
We will cherish this anniversary. It is the Easter of a fallen nation. Our children and children's children will perpetuate this tender and touching ceremonial. During every generation, let us hope, maids and matrons, young men and old men, will esteem it their high honor and sacred heritage to cover with floral tributes, to warm with their love and freshen with their tears those little hillock's on “fames eternal camping-ground.” The cemeteries are the shrines of the nation. Worthy to have lived and earned our reverence; worthy the fadeless crown which Confederate soldiers won on a hundred fields of glory; worthy the immortal men who gave themselves in life and death for us, for the honor of the South, for the rights of the States, for local self-government, for the principles of the Union as these were handed down to us by the fathers of our common country....”
—Daily Dispatch, May 22, 1884 source: Library of Congress.
BTW, if you ever get over in this part of the country, drop me a line. I'll be more than happy to give you a tour of the Civil War battlefields in this area. Here in Kentucky, you have Perryville and Mill Springs, while just across the border in Tennessee, you have Stones River and Fort Donelson.
Don't forget that next year is the 150th anniversary of the start of the Civil War, so many of the battlefields and military parks will be holding special events, making 2011-15 an excellent time to visit.
The post was to NS, not you. He or she said them, not you. Don’t post to me again troll. Just keep defending your clown in the WH, the Marxist homo cocaine user jug eared Kenyan Barry Soetoro.
Thank you Fred. Very interesting, great research as usual!
Outstanding Pics,,,
Black Men fought alongside my kin at the Battle of Mansfield
to protect their farms,,,(April 8th 1864)...
Here's a tip for you: This is a public forum. And you're not the censor around here. You find a post of mine that you think merits my being banned, take it to the mods. Until then, I've got just as much right to speak as you do.
Being from AZ this really jumped out at me..
Have enjoyed your posts on this thread.
Indeed.
Denial is a defense mechanism which protects the individual from a painful and unpleasant truth, and rejects it instead, insisting that it is not true despite what may be overwhelming evidence. In this case, facing the truth can cause a shattered personality.
"Denial is choosing to deny reality as a way to avoid an uncomfortable truth: "it is the refusal to accept an empirically verifiable reality. It is an essentially irrational action that withholds validation of a historical experience or event".
That’s the best you got?
Thank you. I really feel for you guys. You’re really going through it right now. Just want to let you know, we support Governor Brewer and you guys. You guys are courageous. Keep it up. I hope the Gov don’t back down. She is a gutsy lady. A lot like our Sarah.
LEAVE MO-JOE ALONE!!! You big bully.
ROTFLMAO!!!!! Do you honestly believe something like that to say, 'Yes'? Look up the work hypocrite in the dictionary and you'll see a picture of a Lost Causer.
Occasionally. But never from you.
You waste your best jokes on the lad, Bubba.
You’re full of $hit. Lee was a gentleman. When he left Appomatox, General Grant and all the Union troops saluted him as he was riding away. The north destroyed the south and are still trying to keep us down.
Get real. The north had slaves too. They just freed them 3 years before the south did.
Great point!
There's no denying that. And not all were freed ahead of the Southern states; slaves in Kentucky and the few remaining in Delaware had to wait for the 13th Amendment. But the Northern states did not launch a protracted and bloody rebellion to protect their institution of slavery. It was the South that did that.
Did I say the clerk was a Yankee? Quit assuming things.
Look back 30 or 40 years to conditions in Southern textile mills, furniture factories, and other companies and you'll see why they had right to work laws. Then tell me about 'plantation' owners.
Right to work laws may be benefiting the South today. Things have certainly changed. But let's not pretend they were enacted for the benefit of the workers themselves.
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