Southern pride rising ... rankling

4-14-02

[JohnnyReb1983]

Southern Movement Growing!

[Vigilant1]

Do you have a link to this article, or could you list the source, please?

[Cold Heat]

My 16year old son's room is covered in confederate flags. A few of his black friends have seen them and nothing was said. He does not see it as a racial issue but a prohibition of something historical.

[Jumper]

Seems to me that anytime anyone who attacks your value system and then demands more welfare from you on top of it is clearly setting themselves up for confrontation.

For too long, Blacks in America have been given a free ride on too many issues and allowed to complain about anything without accountability.

Accountability is the defining issue of issues in conjunction with setteling the problems of the Black Community. As long as the pimps like J.Jackson and Al Sharpton are allowed to side-step accountability, to never demand personal accountability for unwed mothers and then produce them within their own society, e.g., black society, then blacks will have grievences.

Attacking Southern or Civil War icons is not the issue, it is the issue of personal accountability; Kinda makes you see why democrats are democrats and Republicans who pay taxes and are responsible citizens in communities are Republicans.

[Goodness Gracious]

How many time must they lose the Civil War?

[Vigilant1]

Never mind, I found it. Click here to go to the Christian Science Monitor article.

[Goodness Gracious]

He does not see it as a racial issue but a prohibition of something historical.

Further evidence that public schools are in need of reform.

[Vigilant1]

Darn! That didn't work. Try this link to go to the Christian Science Monitor article.

[Cold Heat]

You would prefer that public schools teach that the civil war was all about freeing the slaves and nothing else?

We don't teach that in the South.

[Centurion2000]

How many time must they lose the Civil War?

That the problem with the Union thinking on the defensive. You have to win defense EVERY time.

The guy attacking (the Confederacy) only has to get lucky once.

BTW ... it was about state's rights ....

[Don Myers]

"Further evidence that public schools are in need of reform."

Actually, it shows that there are still some kids who resist brainwashing.

[jwh_Denver]

I don't know but maybe some of the Southerners are just fed up with all mind numbing senseless liberal clap they're seeing and they want out of that loop. So they fall back on their old flag and the virtues and values that existed in this country about 5 decades ago?

[Ligeia]

We don't teach that in the South.

I saw a Maryland PBS program a few weeks ago about the public school Standard of Learning exams in Maryland, Virgnia, and Masschusetts. One of the segments was a large table full of Virginia educators trying to decide on which questions to ask on the exams. They knew their job was important as their questions would influence the curriculum taught in classrooms.

What I found interesting concerning the discussion on the Civil War/War of Northern Agression/War Between the States was that it replicated the debates we find here at FR. Teachers and historians on the panel held firm that the CW was not going to be taught simply as a war about slavery and was going to include all the reasons.

[Wonder Warthog]

"And the idea that the country has decided to erase all things Southern is unfounded, says Potok. "The war occurred, and there's no point in pretending it didn't. Besides, removing all signs of the Civil War is a little akin to the Soviets airbrushing assassinated leaders out of photographs.""

Gee, Potok, that appears to me to be EXACTLY what you and your cronies want.

[Free the USA]

fyi

[jslade]

Unbelievably Patriotic-Freeper since April 13, 2002.

You wimps are sooooooo obvious.

[Morgan's Raider]

"These guys are very much building the intellectual capital which they hope to make the foundation for a ... reborn Confederacy," says Mark Potok, editor of the Southern Poverty Law Center's Intelligence Report in Montgomery, Ala. And the size scares him. "You have 9,000 and 15,000-person membership rolls, huge groups littered with PhDs, doctors, and lawyers, which are vastly more politically dangerous than any Klan or neo-Nazi group could ever be."

GOOD! I hope we scare the commie bastards right out of Montgomery, the South, and on to Havana or Beijing where they belong.

[southern rock]

The people who speak of and practice "Southern pride" are nothing but traitors to our Great and Superior Country and should be executed alongside the other traitors, such as Johnny bin Walker. I'm also appalled that some of you people don't see a problem with this " Southern pride". You are also traitors. "Southern pride". *spits in disgust* WHAT ABOUT AMERICAN PRIDE, HUH?!?!?!?

YAWN!