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1 posted on 08/20/2015 10:02:41 AM PDT by bob_denard
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But in a decision announced this week, W&L denied a request by the confederate veterans group to rent the university-owned chapel for next year’s Lee-Jackson Day.

I bet they'll rent it to the NAACP...

2 posted on 08/20/2015 10:07:14 AM PDT by WayneS (Yeah, it's probably sarcasm...)
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To: wardaddy; stainlessbanner; PeaRidge; rustbucket

Dixie Ping


3 posted on 08/20/2015 10:07:50 AM PDT by StoneWall Brigade (MARANATHA)
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To: bob_denard

I think they should get some muslims to book it for them, I bet they would bend over backwards to let muslims use it.


4 posted on 08/20/2015 10:08:03 AM PDT by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: bob_denard

More politically correct cowardice.


5 posted on 08/20/2015 10:10:03 AM PDT by onedoug
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The Progressive-Taliban purge of Southern history and culture continues...


6 posted on 08/20/2015 10:11:04 AM PDT by Nep Nep
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When I learned about the Civil War in grade school, my teacher stressed that one of the ways the nation was brought back together was that some military men from both the north and south had attended West Point together.

They respected each other and had the same idea of honor. The teacher said that it began the healing that brought peace and saved lives.

Our ancestors would be shocked at our behavior today - no Christian forgiveness.

7 posted on 08/20/2015 10:11:46 AM PDT by donna (Pray for Revival.)
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Seriously,this is getting ridiculous...

How many of us know Blacks who are VERY proud members of the Sons of the Confederacy???

I’ve met several while living in Alabama and North Carolina.

From what I was told, the Sons of the Confederacy basically maintains Civil War/ War of Northern Aggression etc graveyards and discuss Battles of the War Between the States.

There is NOTHING racist about the group.


8 posted on 08/20/2015 10:15:50 AM PDT by Willie From Austin
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Good lord

Insanity

They gonna dig Lee up?

Is little sorrel taxidermy still in the basement museum at VMI?


9 posted on 08/20/2015 10:16:21 AM PDT by wardaddy (My ears are bleeding....FOX ..all I hear are shrill high pitched whiney women taking over each other)
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What’s needed is a campaign to encourage alumni and local businesses to freeze donations to the college. That will get the President and Board’s attention so fast, you wouldn’t believe it. In a New York minute, you might say.


14 posted on 08/20/2015 10:26:08 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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Oh for Cripe’s sake. It’s a lineage-based membership service organization, just like the DAR and SAR.


16 posted on 08/20/2015 10:30:44 AM PDT by mass55th (Courage is being scared to death - but saddling up anyway...John Wayne)
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Who’s the one being intolerant?


17 posted on 08/20/2015 10:31:47 AM PDT by AppyPappy
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Washington and Lee should be forced to change its name. If that is how the feel then they disgrace the memory of both Gen. Washington and Gen. Lee.


23 posted on 08/20/2015 10:45:43 AM PDT by central_va (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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I was doing some family research recently and found a newspaper clipping about a distant cousin. She was a native of Kansas whose father fought for the Union. Her family moved around a lot, eventually winding up in Virginia, and she married a Virginian whose grandfather wore the grey. The clipping was about the Lee-Jackson Day celebration in 1937. Cousin Marguerite contributed by playing the piano in a quartet. The hall was decorated with Confederate flags and bunting. A hearty meal was served. A professor gave a talk about the causes of the war. It sounded like a pretty nice occasion of local people (including my “Yankee” cousin) commemorating their common history and heritage.


24 posted on 08/20/2015 10:47:01 AM PDT by Southside_Chicago_Republican (If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.)
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A couple of years back, the then President of William & Mary got himself in hot water by ordering the removal of crucifixes from Wren Chapel.

Board fired his sorry butt in fairly short order after a huge outcry from alumni, accompanied by threats of no more financial support for the college.

These things often have ways of working themselves out.


29 posted on 08/20/2015 11:04:18 AM PDT by Arm_Bears (Biology is biology. Everything else is imagination.)
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To: onedoug

ping


30 posted on 08/20/2015 11:16:20 AM PDT by windcliff
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To: bob_denard

Excuse me, what? Who do they think they’re named after?


33 posted on 08/20/2015 11:53:18 AM PDT by TBP (Obama lies, Granny dies.)
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Next up, removal of the American flag, which many liberals consider racist and a symbol of colonialism, too.


36 posted on 08/20/2015 3:17:49 PM PDT by tbw2
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