Discussion for article #225644
Being high school students, I bet most of the supporters actually believe their own press, too.
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“The Rebel Man was never intended to embark racism or start any kind of political controversy, but only to represent our city’s history,” the petition reads."
Of course, that would be a history of racism and political controversy.
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more than 1,200 students and alumni
What percentage are pre 1975 alumni?
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“The Rebel Man was never intended to embark racism or start any kind of political controversy, but only to represent our city’s history”
Yes, that would be your city’s history as part of the side that lost the war.
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Well, there’s yet another Southern school where the Cornerstone Speech isn’t part of the American history curriculum.
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Keep giving in to the Redneck Agenda and they’ll keep pushing it harder and harder.
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What if the opponents of the idea were to say, OK, you can bring him back, but only if you change his name to Treason Man?
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It’s not the act or the symbol. It’s who it offends.
Years ago, in the Dominican Republic, I met a young professor in my Department who told me of an act fairly common in that country (and my own country of origin) during that particular time.
As a guest at a friend’s house, the young man wished to bathe before turning in, and lamented that he would have to forego that because the water for the bath would have come from a common tap on the street. His host replied that it would be no trouble–that the water would be obtained promptly. Even though the young guest protested, his host insisted, “It won’t be a problem.”
Reluctantly, the young professor prepared for his bath and, walking to the bathroom, glanced at the bedroom of the of the host, expecting it to contain only his wife, who was peacefully sleeping during the initial conversation. Surpisingly, the host was sound asleep. Turning suddenly, the young professor saw the host’s wife struggling upstairs to the bathroom with a huge water bin.
After the host had stated, “It won’t be a problem,” he had simply roused his wife, given the order and gone back to sleep.
Countries with a great deal of this kind of inequality between the genders doubtlessly contain hosts of menfolk who would swear that there is “nothing offensive” about a whole host of actions which would enrage most American women.
I have no doubt that legions of neo-Confederate hillbillies abound who will pass any lie-detector test while saying, “The Confederate flag is not offensive in any way.”
The people it offends?
To the BaggerBillies, that’s “their problem”.
But, just as women have obtained a certain degree of relief from male chauvinists (although, with the help of the Right, it is getting more difficult), so African Americans have long ago come to the conclusion that their sensitivities are as defiled by the Confederate flag as women are when they contemplate my Dominican anecdote.
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It’s ridiculous to try to bring back the “Rebel Man” (good lord, it sounds like an awful comic book), but I can’t help noticing that all of these kids sound like talking heads spouting lines. Charlie Bonner, while perhaps correct, sounds like an attorney wrote that for him.
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I often hear people say that Blacks/Hispanics/Native Americans or whoever need to get over history and move on. Does anyone ask these guys to do the same?
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Here in Henrico they justify segregation by calling it “community schooling” which is why these kids from a predominantly white H.S. believe their own bullshit.
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Of course they do. Proving once again that Tea-Baggers are essentially immature adolescents who are still stuck in High School (mentally.)
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Just secede already. We’ll let you go this time. Promise!
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Alecsys Brown: "This Rebel Man does not represent racism or slavery."
Brown added, “He simply represents traitors in armed rebellion against the United States.”
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Four years. The confederacy existed for four years. Slavery in this country existed for 245 years. I’m sick of these idiots.
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They are honoring the wrong rebels. If it’s “only to represent our city’s history,” can’t they put a person in a tri-corner hat and remember the original rebels, Thomas Jefferson and Patrick Henry, not Jefferson Davis or Robert E. Lee.
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Racist kids w/ racist parents want racist flag reinstated in the racist South. It must be Monday. Either let them secede or kick them out of the Union, tired of supporting hillbillies w/ my Blue state tax money.
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TPM: “Since Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy, a Southern soldier really represents us as a school," [Alecsys Brown, a senior at Freeman who helped start the petition] told the Washington Post. “This Rebel Man does not represent racism or slavery.”
If it represented the Confederacy, it represents racism. Period.
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How about a 1776 Rebel?
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