You got that right.
Posted on 08/26/2004 7:53:13 PM PDT by RebelBanker
The greatest battle ever fought on the North American continent and the historical aftermath of this titanic contest have been lost forever in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. On the same grounds where Robert E. Lee, John Buford and John Reynolds fought for principles they held dear to them, Gettysburg College has decided that political correctness is more important than it’s historical identity.
The Sons of Confederate Veterans hereby alert all of our members and friends to attend the rally to be held on September 2 and September 3 at Gettysburg College to protest the College sponsored art exhibit featuring the hateful anti-Southern artwork of John Sims.
It has become apparent that neither Gettysburg College nor Gettysburg appreciates the value of Southern tourism. The valor exhibited by Confederate soldiers in this decisive battle is no longer important to officials of Gettysburg or Gettysburg College. The Confederate Battle flag is an honored flag flown on the battlefield by our Confederate soldiers. By promoting what the college calls “art” in which any intelligent person can see is nothing but thinly disguised hatred, the Sons of Confederate Veterans have decided that an economic boycott of the Gettysburg area will commence on September 3. And millions of American citizens with a love of the South and their Confederate heritage have been deeply offended.
Commander-in-Chief Denne Sweeney hereby calls on all members, families, and friends to avoid Gettysburg and not to spend any money in the Gettysburg area. All people concerned with the anti-Southern bigotry of this area should alert friends, media, and anyone concerned with the growing problem in Gettysburg so that this boycott will become nationwide and not just regional.
After September 3, Gettysburg is to be avoided whenever vacation plans are being made. Please pass this on to all media, lists and Internet services for widespread distribution.
Brag Bowling
National Press Officer
Sons of Confederate Veterans
804.359.0382
FYI, y'all.
Deo Vindice!
ADVISORY for 7 p.m. Friday, Sept. 3 - Gettysburg, Pa.
Artist to 'Lynch' Confederate Flag at Gettysburg College
GETTYSBURG, Pa., Aug. 6 (AScribe Newswire) -- An artist will "lynch" the Confederate battle flag on a specially built 13-foot-high outdoor gallows at Gettysburg College Sept. 3.
The lynching - set for 7 p.m. near Schmucker Hall off North Washington Street - will occur on the opening night of an exhibition called "Recoloration Proclamation: The Gettysburg Redress" by artist John Sims.
This lynching, entitled "The Proper Way to Hang a Confederate Flag," will also be the subject of an exhibition closing ceremony on Sept. 26.
The exhibition in the college's Schmucker Art Gallery will also include:
- Confederate flags that Sims has rendered in alternate colors, such as the black, red and green of the African liberation movement. Two "drag flags" will be in lavender and pink with sparkles and fur.
- Sims' "ReVote" installation, which includes his re-colored "Floridian Rebel Flag" surrounded by three of the actual voting booths used in Florida's controversial 2000 presidential election.
- The artist's revised version of President Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address."
- The artist's "Dixie Remix Project," an interactive experience centering on the famous song that begins, "Way down south in the land of cotton."
- A lecture on Sims, "Razing the Flag: Nationalism and Dissent in Contemporary Art," by Gwendolyn DuBois Shaw, assistant professor of art history and Afro-American studies at Harvard University at Schmucker Hall, at 5:15 p.m., Sept. 16.
"The 'Recoloration Proclamation' project is about visual terrorism, respect and collective self-esteem issues," Sims said.
"By co-opting the image of the Confederate flag and changing the well-known color scheme to one antithetical to the flag's historical and cultural function, Sims is able to interrogate and re-direct the symbol's power, perhaps altering the viewer's sense of place and belonging," said Dr. Molly S. Hutton, who directs Gettysburg College's Schmucker Art Gallery.
In addition to his work as an artist, Sims is coordinator of mathematics at Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, Fla. A native of Detroit, he is completing a Ph.D. in mathematics at Wesleyan University, and holds a B.S. in mathematics from Antioch College in Ohio. He is co-curator of "MathArt/ArtMath," a nationally touring exhibition of contemporary mathematical art.
Images and more information about Sims are available at www.johnsimsprojects.com.
Gettysburg College is a highly selective four-year residential college of liberal arts and sciences. With a student body of approximately 2,500, it is located on a 200-acre campus adjacent to the Gettysburg National Military Park in Pennsylvania. The college was founded in 1832.
MEDIA CONTACTS:
Kendra Branchick, Gettysburg College media relations, 717-337-6801; kbranchi@gettysburg.edu; www.gettysburg.edu/administration/public_relations/newsroom.html
John Sims, 941-330-0096; jsims@ringling.edu; www.johnsimsprojects.com
NOTE TO EDITORS: To attend a press preview of the exhibit, call the Office of Communications and Public Relations at 717-337-6801
This is big, Andy.
Big, I tell you.
Ya want sympathy for the insurrectionists? GO TO FREDERICKSBURG! Pennsylvania is YANKEE TERRITORY. It's only true to what Gettysburg IS. What, you want good press for your failed invasion from the people you invaded? Not gonna happen.
Cry me a river.
How many black men were lynched in the south by numerous 'sons' of Confederates?
Paybacks are a bitch....
OK, well THAT's just plain stoopid. (What the artist plans to do.) That's not an affront to the confederacy, that's an affront to the dignity of the UNION.
I do not like boycotts. If I could afford to, I'd be boycott busting in South Carolina right now.
Uh, that would be the battle of Saratoga by the Revolutionary Army.
LOL good point
If only the Confederates had boycotted Gettysburg to begin with, things might have turned out quite differently.
I am so damned sick and tired of this liberal south-hating bull$hit!
I am not from the south, but have been through there, and they are the best Americans that can be found. This makes me feel like flying a confederate battle flag everywhere I go.
I was watching Gettysburg (a pretty good movie, even with Sheen as Lee) on a flight back from Europe since I saw the onboard movies on the way over. A black flight attendant was shooting daggers at me the whole trip. I was going to tell her not to worry, that the Union won, but I didn't want to get arrested for harrasment when I stepped off the plane.
Probably no more than were lynched by 'sons' of Union veterans. As I recall, Illinois and Indiana were hotbeds of Klan activity. And study who the lynching victims were during the New York draft riots of 1863.
Why would she be staring daggers at you?
And study who the lynching victims were during the New York draft riots of 1863.
*** Black babies in orphanages.
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