No. The South won’t “rise” again. I’m a Tennessean, a Southerner all my life. My great-great grandfather was a Rebel soldier at Shiloh, TN; told my grandmother Shiloh was “awful, just horrible, the most horrible thing I’ve ever seen in my life”. My parents took me to Shiloh when I was a small child over 60 yrs. ago. The Bloody Pond was darker blood red then than it is today. - My father was an American combat soldier in the Army in N. Africa, Italy & Germany before I was born. - You can thank him, and others like him who became men who would charge Hell with a bucket of water during that conflict & took it to Hitler where he lived! The Civil War insured that YOU would NEVER dare THINK about seceding from the Union. My great-great grandfather never owned slaves; was a slave himself, working his Southern land, plowing with a mule. - Do you reckon “the South” has been punished enough yet?!
I am seeing that my post has been misread as a mockery of the South. It was meant as a lament of the loss of the manly culture that the flag stood for.
It took a certain kind to face the rifles and cannon at Shiloh and I doubt that most American men these days would have the nerve to face death like that. The pathetic and vile creatures that pass for ‘men’ these days offend me.
While I never owned a Battle Flag of Virginia (until UPS delivered one on Friday) I looked to that flag as the remnant of a different time, a holdout against the emasculated culture of our time in which everything masculine, honorable, and patriotic has been demonized. And now it is disappearing as the war against America and the war against Men enters its final stages.
Did the South have slavery? Yes, it did. And so did the Union. It’s an irony that slavery in the North didn’t end until AFTER the Civil War was over which makes clear that the war was never really about slavery in the first place.
That said, the flag for me never represented racism because some racists liked it anymore than the US flag represented racism because the KKK marched down Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington DC waving it.
Right or wrong, that flag represented men who were willing to fight for what they believed in. In that time it was a common virtue for men to display uncommon valor.
Not so much anymore when a whole nation kneels before homosexual degenerates.
I for one take extreme exception to a group of liberals and blacks attacking their service and my heritage. For 99% of us southern folks, the CBF stands for southern honor and deep reflection of family and God.
Pretty much what the left wing detests.