Where did you get your education? Musta been out of a box of Corn Flakes! You are another case of a damnYankee ignoramus out spewing the Yankee lies of history.
Posted on 12/13/2002 4:04:26 PM PST by stainlessbanner
The manager of a Mobile mall has evicted a merchant selling clothing with Confederate battle flag designs, citing complaints from people angered by the merchandise.
The merchant, Camo Unlimited, opened a kiosk in Colonial Mall Bel Air just after Thanksgiving. The Blountsville-based company sells Dixie Outfitters clothing at the Mobile mall and at other malls throughout the Southeast, owner Toby Smith said.
Dixie Outfitters offers more than 600 designs with themes such as hunting, trucks and dogs, all including the stars and bars of the Confederate battle flag. The clothing line's "Legends of the Confederacy" series features generals and other leaders of the Confederacy.
Smith said that soon after he opened the kiosk, employees of another store at the mall complained. Soon afterward, the mall's management told him to clear out by Sunday.
Tim Nolan, the mall's general manager, said he heard from several people who indicated the store could spur a boycott of the mall.
"May I remind you that blacks and other minorities constitute a major portion of consumers who patronize Colonial Bel Air Mall," chapter president Lettie Malone wrote in a Dec. 5 letter to Nolan.
"They should not be embarrassed or made to feel uncomfortable by those who are still fighting and trying to revive a war that never should have been a part of our civilized society."
The state president of the NAACP, the Rev. R.L. Shanklin, said the group never had plans for a boycott, and that he would have to approve any boycott carried out by the organization.
Nevertheless, Nolan said the mall was in an "emotionally charged controversy that we didn't want to be in the middle of."
"There was going to be no easy decision," he told the Mobile Register. "Certainly customers are disappointed that we took them out. Customers would have been disappointed had we left them in."
Asked whether he thought his clothing was offensive, Dixie Outfitters owner Dewey Barber said, "We certainly don't put any designs out there that we feel are offensive to anyone."
Dixie Outfitters' Web site has links and news stories about the Battle Flag, and in a section called "Our Mission" it states:
"The truth about the Confederate Flag is that it has nothing to do with racism or hate. The Civil War was not fought over slavery or racism. We at Dixie Outfitters are trying to tell the real truth via our art and products in regards to the Confederate Flag."
Ben George, head of a local Sons of Confederate Veterans camp, said he was considering a protest against the eviction.
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that's what i'd plead anyway. in the southland today, it probably would work (southrons are SICK TO DEATH of businesspeople "knuckleing under" to the "oh, so sensitive lefties"), especially if i could find ONE PIECE of goods in another mall shop that was NOT excluded.
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in my case the U is for "uniformity".
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By the way, I have lived in the south for 47 years and have never heard that expression.
You're both correct. I've not heard *gar* used in the last 5 years I've been in Memphis, but it was indeed common for me to hear in conversations around the Wabash Valley communities of Southern Indiana when I previously resided there, particularly from cops and elected officials.
But if blacks have no regard for my sensibilities or cultural history, I see no reason I should particularly respect theirs. Accordingly, I'll display none such generally, but will do so for those who I know or might assume have earned or otherwise deserve it.
free the south,sw
Indeed, the Hoosier state being the one in which a former governor was elected largely because of his support from then-national Ku Klux Klan leader D.C. Stevenson of Irvington, mentioned as a possible presidential candidate who would have likely faced FDR as a challenger. At the time, noone defeated as a vice-presidential candidate, as FDR had been in the 1920 election, had been elected to the presidency.
Of course *Steve* Stevenson would not have been the first Klansman or former Klansman elected to the highest office- nor the last.
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i suspect, but do not know, that damnyankees learn their hatefulness at home & in the "pubic screwls" up north.
BTW, do you know what the southron's definition of a damnyankee is? you MIGHT just be surprised.
free dixie,sw
a damnyankee is a person, born in the north:
who dispises all persons from the southland, as inferior in every way to typical northernborns (they MAY make "exceptions" for LIBERALS from the south, provided that those LIBs constantly kow-tow to the damnyankee as "we're doin' the bes' we can, boss-we wuz pore, we did'n have yore edumakatshun, after all".(sic)),
who believes that southron institutions of culture & education are ALL worse than similar northern institutions,
hates our southron battleflags,
hates our monuments to our hero-martyrs,
believes all white southrons are ignorant,stupid racists,
believes our struggle for southron independence was about preserving chattal slavery,
discounts ALL reports of blacks, indians,latinos & asians in CSA uniforms as "myth" or "exceptions to the rule",
discounts all reports of union WAR CRIMES committed against civilians & POWs as "un-important" or "just what you rebs deserved".
& FINALLY, the damnyankee will tell us LOUDLY, while visiting the southland,exactly how he/she feels about us(one wonders why they don't stay home?);one supposes that they believe that we southrons are too dumb to even understand their slurs.
that's what a damnyankee is.
sadly, during my 20 years as an officer in the army, i met & worked for MANY of them. their comments were often of this sort: "JaaaydoubleYEEW, (said with exaggerated quasi-trailerpark-trash drawl)are there any more rebs down thar, who're as smart as yew?"(sic)
i guess what i'm saying is all the DAMNYANKEES i ever met were arrogant,loud-mouthed,ignorant,self-righteous HATERS.
the damnyankees will be the final reason that this nation finally splits into 2-3 countries (i am fast becoming a supporter of both Le Republicque Quebecois & Los Estados Unidos de Aazatlan, as i believe they will depart the USA & Canada before we southrons leave AND their leaving will make the south's departure easier.);longterm we are TOO/TWO different to remain in one country.(we southrons, come dixie freedom, will make citizens of the better class of conservative northern-borns AND we'll send you ALL our scalawags, too. i KNOW you'll be pleased.)
free dixie NOW,sw
Where did you get your education? Musta been out of a box of Corn Flakes! You are another case of a damnYankee ignoramus out spewing the Yankee lies of history.
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