Posted on 04/13/2002 10:36:17 PM PDT by JohnnyReb1983
In the group I ran around with in high school, one of them was black. For a joke, one of my friends gave him a Confederate flag for his birthday. He put is back in my friends teeth by hanging it on his bedroom wall. Today, he is a ND graduate and making big bucks.
NORTH - 1
SOUTH - 0
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Interesting!
This is not one of the subjects that I follow closely but I recall that back in the late 60s and early 70s the debate about slavery being the primary cause of the civil war sorta came out of the blue. Southerners in general have never accepted that premise, nor should they. I simply is not true.
Although slavery was a issue of the day and time, it was never listed as the reason the south rebelled against the north. The anti slavery groups of the time were mostly located in the eastern cities like New York and Mass. and were not involved in the discourse. It was after the war started that slavery was spoken of as a reason for the North to suceed in it's effort to bring the south to it's knees. One of many reasons needed to justify the loss of life.
Slavery ceased but indentured servitude continued. The term is just a word used to deliniate a subtle difference(yankee word). Ownership of the individual was based on time(a span of years) and the ability of the individual to buy out his or her contract. This was the preffered method in the North and East and the victims were largely white.
After that came the company operated collectives that provided living space and food for work. Since the worker always found himself in debt to the company, he could not leave. If he tried he was beaten or even shot.(same ole story) These folks were largely white as well.
Human rights were not available to anyone but the aristocracy during the early days. No poor were allowed education. (could not afford it) White or black. These are the conditions that allowed slavery and it was imported from the Europeans. Humanity has grown up alot since then. Although, forced labor and indentured servitude along with slavery still exist in third world countries. My grandparents escaped from the Balkans after WWI. The army was grabbing people off the street and making them serve the government. My grandfather would have none of that and came here with his young wife.
Sorry for the long rant. I needed to get this off my mind. I owe nothing to any person or group because of past injustice. No body does. The history of the human race is frought with man's injustice to man. It is what we do in the future and not the past that is important. We use history so as not to repeat the past. We cannot ever mess with the facts of history.
Regards,
/jasper
Do you think it ever occurred to the detractors that if they hadn't demanded, on false pretenses and so very publicly, to have Confederate symbols banned, that the hue and cry wouldn't have been so loud?
I have friends who went out and purchased a Confederate flag to hang on the day when one of the "leaders" NAACP told the community that people couldn't fly it on their property. They weren't southern either, just annoyed that one group would ban symbols of history they didn’t like while all the time, promoting their version of history and their symbols.
Lol, you should have seen the faces on the NAACP, it was truly priceless.
We've never lost our pride, nor our desire to be left alone to our own way of life, culture and civility.
We are predominately Christians with a tremendous desire to live free, in a society that reflects our values. Not the values we are told to adopt by globalists, one worlders, or any other political whore.
What has caused Southerners to rally is the attacks against our values. We don't believe in globalism, New World Order agendas, or open borders.
We believe in liberty, and the Rule of Law, something you don't hear many politicians dicussing now.
We believe in the power of prayer and the power of gunpowder: Patrick Henry was correct-Most Southerners would agree: Give me liberty or give me death.
Over the next few decades, we our backs are going to be against the wall. The only way we and our culture will remain in existence is by a healthy dose of political and cultural activism laden with a strong dash of aggressive assertiveness.
This woman is a heroine of the highest order.
Well, ain't that the truth! We are the last place for civility, independence, and constitutionality.
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Anytime you think you're big enough. Anytime...
Southern Pride is the only American Pride left. The rest of you are proud of your political party or your income bracket.
You won't call me a traitor face to face and walk away from it looking the same as before, boy. I'll guarantee you that.
If I hear that phrase one more time touted by someone who by their very posting shows they only know the word 'Constitution' and haven't bothered reading it, I'm going to lose it. First off, I'm a North Carolinian, not an American. That's starting to bug me. I mean really bug me. If you want to be exact about it, Canadians, Mexicans, Nicaraguans, Panamanians, Chileans, all those little nations in Central America, and all the ones I didn't name in South America are 'Americans'. The name itself implies living on one of the American continents, hence 'of America'. Second, I am live in a nation of United StateS, and NOT a prepositional article. But we can't go about saying we live in the United States and we are a citizen of one of those states because that would just really kill the federal government and implied powers the northern tyrant assumed he had.
So back to your question about 'American' pride? I don't know and I really don't care. I am proud to be a North Carolinian and a citizen of a member state of the United States. I am proud of the military and the job they do overseas and pray for them on a regular basis. But I am not proud of 'Buy American', 'Save American Jobs through Tariffs' , or 'Made in America by American Workers who are overpaid through union subsidies set up by big government so they can get a kickback'. If you think that makes me less patriotic than you, so be it. I'm not a sheep to be led around by the nose by Washington DC and don't cheer everytime some leader gets on and explains to me how my taxes, which are unconstitutional anyway, are going to be passed by a group of men, elected unconstitutionally to further destroy the rights and powers of the separate and equal states
ping!! ping!!! ping!!! ping!!! Where do I sign up and what do I need to do? May God bless Dixie!!
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