Gov. Haley Barbour has declared April Confederate Heritage month in Mississippi

picayuneitem.com ^ | 04-03-04

[Non-Sequitur]

On March 4, 1865 Jefferson Davis, President of the Confederate States of America, approved an act revising the previous Confederate flag.

It is telling that at a time when the victorious Union armies were liberating dozens of miles of southern territory per day from the forces of the rebellion, when the confederate armies had neither the food or the men to continue, and mere days before Davis was forced to flee the capitol, the southern leadership felt that they had nothing better to do than ponder what their flag would look like. No wonder you lost.

[sandmanbr]

No wonder you lost..

We didn't lose, we just got tired of killing yankees and suspended the operation. We may resume at any moment. ;)

[WKB]

No wonder you lost..
We didn't lose, we just got tired of killing yankees and suspended the operation. We may resume at any moment. ;)




I would say we might start in "non-squirter's" state
but he his to ashamed to fly his flag so we don't know where to start.

[WhyisaTexasgirlinPA]

Isn't the "you lost, we won" issue the thing that is fueling the reparations demands?

Although i was raised in the South, I had ancestors who fought on both sides of that war - but I didn't - and I'm not paying reparations for something I didn't do..... ;^)

[Non-Sequitur]

I would say we might start in "non-squirter's" state but he his to ashamed to fly his flag so we don't know where to start.

Kansas. Good luck.

[stand watie]

YEP!

free dixie,sw

[stand watie]

YIKES, a jayhawker!

free dixie,sw

[pending]

A Blue Collar Vermont Yankee on this Dixie Thing
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Brattleboro, Southern Vermont.
Home of the "Brattleboro Colonels, the "pride of the south". On the Helmet, two handsome crossed sabres.

Teenage enthusiasms over the years morph this
"pride of the South" into singing dixie (Hooray! Hooray!),the occasional rebel flags and bumper stickers, and a mascot,"The colonel".

Details are foggy, but the most likely reason for this
is that Brattleboro was actually named for a revolutionary era Colonel 'Brattle' This morphed with "pride of southern VT" to a new synergy..."Southern Colonel".

"The colonel" mascot became a mustachioed,stuffed and puffy, soft baby blue clad kind of furry pleasant looking
and most definately harmless fellow.

Peace reigns in the valley, as always.

Enter a fellow,(notably not a local) who decided
he was uncomfortable with the "symbolism".

Southern "Colonels" weren't really "Colonels", they were "Slave Owners". The mascot,team symbol, all must Go.
"I demand it", said he.

The local paper donated their inexpensive front page real estate, and the crew of "editorialists" assisted in relentlessly pumping up the volume of thier irateness.

There never was any actual incident imagined. It was simply "the very idea of it".

The paper is home to seemingly innumerable bitterly frustrated, mud slinging, ill tempered small time
liberals. Familiar?
Thier politics extend all the way from the far left, to the extreme left.

Here, for them a mission, a purpose,
a crusade, because discovered in their midst
an objectification of Evil.
A mustachioed,stuffed and puffy, baby blue clad
kind of furry pleasant stuffed Colonel.

They fueled the fires of thier great crusade by printing amoungst the mostly sane calls for cooler heads, one vitriolic, ill tempered and genuinely racist letter (most notably not from a local resident). It included the de rigeur standard reference to the "truth" contained in the long discredited and infamous "Elders of Zion" screed.

You know what happened next. An explosion of emotion, from a people wronged by this "journalism".

The inevitable bitter and acrimonious refighting of the civil war ensued on the pages of the paper.

"Slavery"

"States rights".

The paper gleefully carried on the crusade, printing it all, adding occasionally even an extra page to its normally single fold front section.

There were still of course no actual incidents or problems. Never one. Not one. But we were all guilty. They said so.

Finally forced by the teachers to a school vote, the teachers
overwhelmingly vote to reject the evil. Cast it out.

The students, overwhelmingly wanted to sing Hooray! again.
It is a great song after all.
The vote is a loser. Shot down.

The crusade continued.

The orchestrated war of words ended with the handsome sabres and Colonel name retained. There was a victim though.

One stuffed,mustachioed, puffy,baby blue clad kind of furry nice looking fellow was consigned to the ash heap of history.


________________________
Whats the point?

Well, there are I am sure more than I can figure
but the significant one for this
lifetime pretty much Hardcase New England Yankee,
is in my own small way,
I finally maybe
"got it" on this issue.

There is no racism here, no problems at all.
Could use some more jobs... companies are a bit strangled by the taxes and environmental rules...

But here, there is hope.
How you ask, can this be? Hope?
Hope from this dismal tale of Abuse of Journalistic Priviledge that locally ranks with no less than
the shamed NYT, those French Wartime Reports of a replaying
of siege of Stalingrad and the crippled by Dogma BBC?
Hope?


Because under relentless left wing pressure, from the paper to the unanimous calls of the Universally PC Teachers...
the Kids saw no harm , no foul.

And, for all Americans North and South I bet those
Vermont Yankee not in the least bit racist kids are going to again open up with refrains of
"I wish I were in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!"

It is a great song, after all.

Keep the faith.

---

[stand watie]

damnyankees are nothing if not predictable!

btw, being northernborn no more makes you a damnyankee than it makes you a plumber!

damnyankee is a LEARNED prejudice!

free dixie,sw

[onyx]

"... the southern leadership felt that they had nothing better to do than ponder what their flag would look like. No wonder you lost."

It is apparent you are a typical democrat yankee, hell bent on revisionist history.

Cavalierly slam the South, glorify your yankee Union,of 140 years ago,
but know this:

Today it is the South that's saving the Union from the democrats.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Ah say, those liberal scalawags sneaked in and stole my visual reference like a common carpetbagger in the night!
As ah was pontificatin':

We can all get along better by respecting each others heritage and traditions while rejecting hate-mongerers' agendas.

[cyborg]

thanks for that clarification :-)

[wardaddy]

Kansas...damn that explains a lot. Lawrence I reckon.

[cyborg]

I thought Jesse Lee Peterson wrote a book called Shakedown.

[wardaddy]

Good for Haley!

Sorry I was late....I `have been working A LOT....but I did FReep late last night and missed this....my apologies.

Have the yankee revisionists been here and acted unseemly?

[Non-Sequitur]

Today it is the South that's saving the Union from the democrats.

Better late than never. Kansas was going GOP while all you good ol' boys were drooling over Democrats from FDR to Jimmy Carter.

[NewRomeTacitus]

Close, but no

[cyborg]

Oh okay *lol* thanks

[Syncro]

Good job onyx.

Shucks my Puter is crashing...I hope you get this message.

I have to reboot.

[onyx]

Kansas was going GOP while all you good ol' boys were drooling over Democrats from FDR to Jimmy Carter.

I ain't a "boy" --- good or ole.
MS is more GOP than your Kansas, so there!