Businessman Fights to End Mississippi Stereotypes

AOL.news ^ | 2-5-06 | HOLBROOK MOHR, AP

[Seamus Mc Gillicuddy]

The most hardcore, ignorant racist people I've ever met were in Cleveland, Ohio. Black and white.

Philly, then Boston would probably be a close second and third.

[dixiechick2000]

Blanche Kelso Bruce(First Black US Senator,R. Mississippi 1874)

[MagnoliaMS]

Hey, there, dc! I'm doing fine, hope you are, too. Good to "see" you again.

[dixiechick2000]

;o)

[dixiechick2000]

Here is Missippy's reply to Rangel's statement.

Welcome to the Missippy ping list, bamabaseballmom!

I lived in Montgomery twice.
Once when I was a babe, and the other as a mother.
I, also, spent time as I was growing up visiting friends in Troy.
That's not even mentioning all of the time I spent as Gulf Shores.

I love Alabama almost as much as I love Mississippi. ;o)

[dixiechick2000]

I'm having a 666 moment in my replies.

This post will take care of that. ;o)

[BillyBoy]

>> Anybody who expects Yankees to ever stop being jerks and retards about the South is a fool. <<

Anyone who expects people like you to stop being smug "holier than thou" jerks and embrace your AMERICAN hertiage is a fool.

Since you (simular to America-hating European socialists and third world dictators) dislike so-called "yankees", so much, I think I'll play this loud and proud the next time I'm in the south:

YANKEE doodle went to town
A'Riding on a pony
Stuck a feather in his hat
And called it macaroni.

YANKEE doodle, keep it up
YANKEE doodle dandy
Mind the music and the step
And with the girls be handy.

There was Captain Washington
Upon a slapping stallion
A-giving orders to his men
I guess there was a million.

I'm a YANKEE Doodle Dandy
A YANKEE Doodle, do or die
A real live nephew of my Uncle Sam
Born on the Fourth of July

I've got a YANKEE Doodle sweetheart
She's my YANKEE Doodle joy

YANKEE Doodle came to London
Just to ride the ponies
I am the YANKEE Doodle Boy

[BillyBoy]

Father's name was Hezikiah,
Mother's name was Ann Maria,
YANKEE through and through.
Red, White and Blue
Father was so YANKEE-hearted,
When the Spanish war was started,
He slipped on a uniform and hopped upon a pony.
My mother's mother was a YANKEE true,
My father's father was a YANKEE too:
That's going some,
For the YANKEE, by gum.
Oh, say can you see
Anything about my pedigree that's phony?

From "The Yankee Doodle Boy", a patriotic song from the Broadway musical Little Johnny Jones written by George M. Cohan. The play concerns the trials and tribulations of a fictional American jockey, Johnny Jones, who rides a horse named Yankee Doodle in the English Derby. Cohan incorporates snippets of several popular traditional American songs into his lyrics of this song, as he often did with his songs.

[Xenalyte]

Looser plans to send Rangel a shirt with the slogan: "Yes, we can read and a few of us can even write," which is part of a campaign to highlight the state's literary giants such as William Faulkner, Eudora Welty, Tennessee Williams and John Grisham.

Point of order.

John Grisham may technically know how to write, but he is anything but a "literary giant."

A marketing juggernaut, yes. A good writer, no way.

[Seamus Mc Gillicuddy]

Any town that has their football fans boo Santa Claus, and has a jail inside their stadium, is not some place I'd wish to congregate. That being said, I can't take a trip down south without stopping at Pat's King of Steaks on 9th and Wharton in S. Philly. I do see a lot of fights break out across the street from there, so it makes for good viewing.

[WKB]

and on top of that he is a democrat
http://www.newsmeat.com/celebrity_political_donations/John_Grisham.php

[Xenalyte]

Gaaaah. Like I needed another reason to dislike him. :)

[Intimidator]

I knew it wasn't spelled correctly, stop taking yourself so seriously and get a sense of humor

[uncitizen]

I don't know how many years ago you went to college in Cleveland, but lemme tell ya, it's gotten SO much worse.

[RKB-AFG]

Good for them.