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 ...
Case in point:
OC district pushes pause on hip-hop curriculum [founding fathers called "old dead white men"]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2600199/posts
Hey, WD! Thanks for gittin’ us all “roused up” this mornin’.
SO HERE’S ONE IN YOUR HONOR!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ki1hUuK_68E
Duane Eddy - “Rebel Rouser”
BTW, re “Rebel Rouser”. To Rebel Tex on the Texas Board goes the credit!
“We even get insulted by our own.”
If I may correct you slightly; we get insulted by some who SAY they are our own. People can claim to be anybody, but some of the garbage that gets posted here under the ruse of personal connection to the South are just plain damn liars.
You've also proven that your an ignorant blowhard. You're a very talented fellow.
Other than that, I'm not going to waste any more time with a trifling little coward like you.
I'll believe that when I see it.
So what was it when Lee sent some of his freed slaves to Liberia? Savage racism, sending them to die out of sight in an uninhabitable land?
jessduntno: You left out that psychotic general’s famous leeter;
Non-Sequitur: He had beeter quotes than that.
OK, no fair to be using secret code...;-)
Hahaha ... good one. I knew you were a man of leeters.
Great article. I've had some heated arguements with some of our Yankee FRiends over exactly the points mentioned in the article. For some of them, the 'War of Northern Agression', (the 'Civil War' as they call it) was ONLY about ending slavery and nothing else - sad, really.
RebelTex
Before the Civil War, Robert E. Lee freed most of his slaves and offered to pay expenses for those who wanted to go to Liberia. In November 1853, Lee's former slaves William and Rosabella Burke and their four children sailed on the Banshee, which left Baltimore with 261 emigrants. A person of superior intelligence and drive, Burke studied Latin and Greek at a newly established seminary in Monrovia and became a Presbyterian minister in 1857. He helped educate his own children and other members of his community and took several native children into his home. The Burkes's letters describing their lives in Liberia show that they relied on the Lees to convey messages to and from relatives still in Virginia, and the letters also reflect affection for their former masters.
Letters from the Burkes to Mary Custis Lee, wife of Robert E. Lee, were published in the 1859 edition of The African Repository with Mrs. Lee's permission. This letter from Mrs. Burke to Mrs. Lee demonstrates personal warmth between the two women. Mrs. Burke shows concern for Mrs. Lee's health, tells Mrs. Lee about her children, and asks about the Lee children. The "little Martha" referred to was Martha Custis Lee Burke, born in Liberia and named for one of the Lee family. Repeating her husband's enthusiasm for their new life, Rosabella Burke says, "I love Africa and would not exhange it for America."
Because the soil around Monrovia was poor and the coastal areas were covered in dense jungle, many early emigrants to Liberia moved up the nearby St. Paul's River, where they found land suitable for farming. There they established small communities of people from the same geographic region in America. This photograph gives an idea of the appearance of the countryside in which the settlers began their new lives.
In 1920, The American Colonization Society sent its first group of immigrants to Sherbro Island in Sierra Leone. The island's swampy, unhealthy conditions resulted in a high death rate among the settlers as well as the society's representatives. The British governor allowed the immigrants to relocate to a safer area temporarily while the ACS worked to save its colonization project from complete disaster.
The "little Martha" referred to was Martha Custis Lee Burke, born in Liberia and named for one of the Lee family.
What do YOU think, genius, Stockholm syndrome?
1862 - The American president, Abraham Lincoln, extended official recognition to Liberia. See "The relations and duties of free colored men in America to Africa: A Letter to Charles B. Dunbar."
Abe jumps in when the Lees and many others had made the place somewhat habitable.
And things are so much better now, right. At least then, they were mostly growing up in intact families, not on drugs, and much less likely to die by violence.
We are also glad you are in your 60s.
Speak for yourself.
Obviously he went to beeter schools than we did.
Actually we call it the War of Southern Rebellion.
Well, they had Abe as a role model. After they saw how the rape of the South was going, why not try to duplicate it?
“Obviously he went to beeter schools than we did.”
Beeter schools, perhaps, but that doesn’t matter to us go-geeters.
There are so many forces at play who knows?
The BATS here are no doubt happy where the Left has taken us on race and minority anything but one day I fear that friction and the government Leviathan chewing up ALL our freedoms will cause bloodshed.
Confiscating guns or property rights, more and more taxes or unsecured borders in time would spark it. Obama and his minions have pushed all of this further along than any force I've yet witnessed.
It's scary how far we have collapsed so quickly. I genuinely fear my grandkids will see it and it will be just awful...a tribulation of Biblical proportion or folks may just move along and give up like machines.
Whites in particular are now so beat down and soft over guilt and the notion their entire history is a crime against humanity that they may just fade away and then those like the asshats here win. Some minorities will resist too...it's hard to say...the only ones who encourage me voting wise are Cubans and Vietnamese and Sikhs and a few TexMexicans...
this is why the politically correct so hate the South and rural folks too largely...we aren't going along in great numbers with their plan to remake America.
I’m glad you see it too.
South Carolina will be lucky to have you...some of our best politicians (and worst..lol) are there.
And it's debatable how much choice Lee's former slaves had. Once they were freed they had to go somewhere. Virginia law in place at the time, and which was incorporated in the 1850 constitution, mandated that any slave freed in Virginia had 12 months in which to leave the commonwealth or else be sold back into slavery.
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