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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“My Southern subsistence farmer family was in Sherman’s path. None of them were starved, murdered or assaulted while Sherman was there. In fact their world got a lot safer with the arrival of Sherman’s army.”
In WWll, a lot of people in France got on fine with the Germans, too. They couldn’t help it if they were “lucky” like that. It happens. It’s good that they were so fortunate.
Maywood is the city that fired all city employees, and contracted out.
More men like that there would be fewer men like that.
Just got to this post. belive me they will I learned later to seal the chambers with wax nothing like a Colt Walker loaded heavy and all six rounds going off at once!
Lees, what are you talking about?
Col K., can you possibly be serious?
About Sherman? Yes. I think his "crimes" are exaggerated and often ignores the context of wartime brutality that travels with all armies. And many Upper South communities fared better after Sherman evicted the oppressive Confederate usurpers who were hostile to the unionist sentiments of most of the population of those areas of the South.
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