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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So what that there was slavery in the US? So what?
I like it! That says it all.
Is obama the trophy of your success?
Cornered my ass. You're like the five year old who says, "I'm going to run away from home. Then what will you do?" They're all talk and so are you. So instead of speculating over how I'll respond to something that has a zero chance of happening, prove me wrong on that and then you can push me for a response.
Like I said, I got you cornered.
And is your Tea Party going to secede with you? Or are they staying and fighting for the country as a whole?
You need to log off FR for a while and go catch up on the latest news. You might be surprised.
Not interested.
Just what I thought. Once again, I've backed you down.
In the future, don't accuse me of not actively participating in the obama/reid/pelosi/socialist resistance unless YOU are willing to put up or shut up.
NS = Gutless Wonder
You're the possessor of a dull wit.
Hypocrisy thy name is cowboyway. I'm not accusing you of not opposing Obama, though I strongly suspect that your opposition in that area is tepid at best because your true goal is to leave this country you all hate so much. I'm saying that you and your compatriots do nothing but shoot your mouths off about a free Dixie this and seceding again that and how just you wait you'll by-God re-establish your confederate states and won't we be sorry then? All you need is the the right opportunity to do so. And it's all bullshit. You are no more capable of launching a successful secession as you are of launching a man to the moon. You are all talk and zero action. All hat and no cattle, as I believe the Texas term goes. Too inept to accomplish much of anything. Much less pose any sort of physical threat to me or anyone else. No matter how much you bluster.
Thanks, LucyT. I’ve got a lot of reading to do tonight. Very interesting in many ways........
Speaking of idjits, I'm predicting that it will take more than you and mo-joe putting your nine volt brains together to accomplish that.
Whining leftists should go elsewhere.
Yet here you are.
I'd say that the boy needs a hobby, but it's clear that he has one. A pretty damned creepy hobby, but a hobby neverthless.
Get lost loser! Buahahahahahahahaha!
Trying out a new tagline in response to post 273. Whaddya think.
Apparently while Mo won’t respond to me in public, he will PM me to tell me that someone has sent him five pages of my previous posts, which he’ll be taking to Jim Robinson.
Yeah, he does the same to me. I’m “Blank Shooter” to him, apparently an attempted insult at my wife and I because we’re adoptive parents. What’s he call you?
He probably wore out his supply of wit coming up with yours. I feel bereft.
And it no doubt is a limited supply, too. He doesn't want to short out that 9 volt brain of his by overtaxing it.
I feel bereft.
I'm obviously more special than you. Eat your heart out.
That part of the war is not talked about as much as probably should be and to people more accustomed to focus on later times, Bragg on the offensive march sounds odd. On the other hand, Buell is not one of my favorite Union generals. Seems to me, that he was sort of a McClellan of the West.
Bed fast kinfolk and weekend responsibilities keep me from enjoying such trips, but I hope you have a good time and if it's agreeable to you, it would be nice to hear about what you saw there when you return.
We get to vote on a ban list?
Whoohoo!
Mine is short but would do much to bring FreeRepublic back to where it was when I joined.
soft on Islam too
but you know what?
so are most of the others....social war moderates at best
Captain Kangaroo to his credit does seem to be a real conservative just with a bug about Dixie history.
and I have seen X post some decent stuff on other topics
it’s not surprising that nearly all south haters here are PC on social issues...it goes together
I do not see Sherman that way. The communications between Sherman an Union general Jeff Davis about the suppression of the criminal element in the Ocoee valley of East Tennessee show that there was a concern about protecting the lives of Southern citizens when possible. And General Davis reported that that effort was supported by the Confederate citizens just as much as by the Unionists. Who knows, Sherman and Davis might have saved the lives of ancestors of mine. Sherman's later efforts in Georgia were hard, but they were directed to ending the war and Sherman, like Lee, had regulations designed to suppress criminal abuse of innocents.
And I'm curious about the ignorant clerk who didn't seem to have much of a clue about the state flag. How old was he? I just wonder if he was a product of the generally inferior current condition of public education.
How ever did mo-joe miss that one? </sarcasm>
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