Posted on 07/09/2015 8:05:43 AM PDT by Red Badger
"Heritage, not hate," as they say. White South Carolinians and Georgians don't fly their Confederate flags because they hate black people. They fly the flag because they're proud of losing. Southerners want their children, and their children's children, to gaze upwards at the red, white, and blue banner, and to know that they come from a long line of losers.
Now, in all honesty, the flag does involve just a wee bit of hatred. But it's hatred of Yankees, foreigners, and "fat monkeys," not black people. In fact, some of your average white Southerners' best friends are black. Or so I've heard. So, in order to reconcile these two groups of bosom buddies, The MoJo Wire has a few possible solutions to the great flag debate.
"Darkieland"
Disney wants to build a Civil War theme park, Southerners want to preserve their heritage ... I smell synergy. Although Disney suffered a crushing defeat at GettysburgLand -- or whatever -- slavery and roller coasters remain two great tastes that taste great together. Why not take down the flag, and erect a park?
Southerners are already big on tacky tourist traps, and Darkieland would give them a place to remember the glories of the Old South. Think of it as the anti-Epcot. African Americans could be hired to perform arduous, back-breaking labor and have their families split apart at the whims of their white "masters" (played by vacationing "heritage" buffs). Fun for the whole family! Er ... assuming your family happens to be white, that is.
You Wear Your X, I'll Wear Mine
This is a popular slogan throughout the South, usually found on pickup truck tailgates and at the local Klan klatch. The implication being that if blacks are entitled to wear the Malcolm X "X," then surely it must follow that toothless crackers are entitled to fly the Stars and Bars on their greasy baseball caps and Lynard Skynard concert T's. Well, this actually seems like a reasonable solution to me. Along with the Confederate flag, why not also raise the white X on black field above the state house?
Secession Is Still An Option
The country is a lot bigger now than it was in the 19th century. Or at least the economy is. And although we obviously want to keep Georgia -- because the Atlanta airport and Ted Turner both lie within its borders -- do we really need South Carolina? Ask yourself: What's South Carolina done for me lately? Sure, I think they make rice, or something, but what's a little rice when you're solving socially divisive issues?
Set aside South Carolina as a sort of white homeland. This will have the additional effect of clearing out most of Alabama and Mississippi, providing a home for displaced black South Carolinians. John Rocker could serve as the new nation's monarch.
Honesty Is The Best Policy
This jaunty flag could serve as either an addition, or as a replacement to South Carolina and Georgia's current models. It reaffirms the positions on both sides of the great flag debate, while adding a touch of panache with its design.
Mat Honan grew up in Montgomery, Ala., and Atlanta, Ga.
Liberals don't realize that they come off so petty and childish, do they?
of interest is that the Southern states which have proudly claimed their Confederate heritage over the many years, have also sacrificed in war more, per capita, of their young men to the United States of America, the Stars and Stripes, than any other region of the nation.
Seriously, I wonder how long before we see the Confederate sculptures on Stone Mountain, Georgia dynamited by the gov’t.
The White House started this latest Confederate flag DISTRACTION and he’s still not getting his Race Riot
There’s Freepers on here who agree with the article.
I think the doofus author missed a couple of redneck stereotypes.
This is what is funny.
I’m sure they exist somewhere, but I have yet to hear a southerner seething with hatred for the US, per se. Often, more patriotic than any other given region.
The only time they hate the US is for the Civil War.
The only time liberals hate the US is...well, everything else. They only love the US lock-step for the Civil War.
Tells you a bit about the mythology of the CW and aftermath, doesn’t it?
Ah, northern racism and hate. South Carolina is 30 percent black. Maryland is the only non-Dixie state that has a higher percentage (31), and Mississippi is the only state that is significantly higher (37 percent)
LA and GA are also right around 30 percent...Bama is at 26 percent...
NC, DE, and and VA are around 20 percent...
TN, FL, ARK, NY, IL, NJ, and MI are around 15 percent...
The other 33 states are all under 13 percent... including 20 states that are under 5 percent... including liberal Oregon (2 percent) and NH (1.2 percent).
So, racist ass-hat, what do you propose to do with the 1.4 million SC blacks when you create this "white homeland" for the 100+ million whites who do not believe as you do?
Mother Jones, just what I read when I want to feel like a communist left wing homosexual....
Mother Jones — the looniest of the looney left, the San Francisco of magazines.
(DC, by the way is 51 percent black, 9 percent Hispanic, and 38 percent white.)
If Obama had wanted to start this latest Confederate flag distraction then he would have been trampled in the rush of Nikki Haley and other Republicans, North and South, condemning the flag and calling for it to be taken down. I don't see hanging this one on him.
A lot.
Those Deep South are more likely to become North America’s black national homeland in the New America.
Just as an aside, here’s the 10 whitest states:
Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, West Virginia, Iowa, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Kentucky and North Dakota
I believe the stupid musings indicated that SC would suck out so many whites from (racist - white of course) MS and AL (?) that basically those 2 would be black land.
I take slight umbrage to your MD comment. Dixie was defined by the Mason-Dixon, and that is the northern border of our state. So, considering MD the northern-most southern state, it fits in (and thus no genuine yankee state has many blacks).
I love how easy it is for these white liberals (invariably yankees) to talk when they don’t know anything about being with black people.
Check out the history of the current mayor of Jackson, Mississippi.
No, they don’t; but they don’t care, anyhow.
they don’t have facts, they don’t have logic, but snark, they’ve got plenty of.
Yep. Not a word about white lightnin' or cousin lovin'!
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