Hoo rah, Confederate women stuck back at home with family farms to take up for their men!
At least, they could get work done, and raise children, men children to go off and fight a cruel war fought on misbegotten idea people can own other people.
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Civil War. Show all posts
Wednesday, April 27, 2016
Confederae Women's Memorial....
....stands in Jacksonville, FL.
Hoo rah, Confederate women stuck back at home with family farms to take up for their men!
At least, they could get work done, and raise children, men children to go off and fight a cruel war fought on misbegotten idea people can own other people.
Hoo rah, Confederate women stuck back at home with family farms to take up for their men!
At least, they could get work done, and raise children, men children to go off and fight a cruel war fought on misbegotten idea people can own other people.
Monday, October 26, 2015
CIVIL WAR ENDS!
http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/10/26/ole-miss-removes-confederate-flag.html
Univ, of Mississippi takes down state flag from university grounds, which flag contains Confederate battle emblem, after a vote by the student senate, thus rejoining the rest of America, albeit in the 21st century rather than the 19th as reasonable people might have expected.
Better late than never.
Kudos to Ole Miss, however, 'cause some folks still think the War continues. Thems even has a web site, a batshit crazy web site, but an online presence nonetheless. The Deep South, according to thems, still under illegal occupation by the federal government,
Man, never thought some could sound more backwards than Mississippi or the Klan boys from Ft. Christmas, FL, but the current Confederate States of America takes my top prize for delusional paranoid fools of this and last century. Thank the US Constitution which gives you the right to publish your views and us to mock y'all.
Idjuts!
[The University of Mississippi took down the state flag from campus on Monday morning, heeding calls from students and administrators who said the inclusion of the Confederate symbol in one portion of the flag made it unfit to fly...
“The University of Mississippi community came to the realization years ago that the Confederate battle flag did not represent many of our core values, such as civility and respect for others,” Interim Chancellor Morris Stocks said in the statement. “Since that time, we have become a stronger and better university. We join other leaders in our state who are calling for a change in the state flag.”
The student senate voted 33-15-1 to take the flag down on Oct. 20 and, six days later, the banner came down,,,,] http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/26/university-mississippi-removes-state-flag/
Univ, of Mississippi takes down state flag from university grounds, which flag contains Confederate battle emblem, after a vote by the student senate, thus rejoining the rest of America, albeit in the 21st century rather than the 19th as reasonable people might have expected.
Better late than never.
Kudos to Ole Miss, however, 'cause some folks still think the War continues. Thems even has a web site, a batshit crazy web site, but an online presence nonetheless. The Deep South, according to thems, still under illegal occupation by the federal government,
Man, never thought some could sound more backwards than Mississippi or the Klan boys from Ft. Christmas, FL, but the current Confederate States of America takes my top prize for delusional paranoid fools of this and last century. Thank the US Constitution which gives you the right to publish your views and us to mock y'all.
Idjuts!
[The University of Mississippi took down the state flag from campus on Monday morning, heeding calls from students and administrators who said the inclusion of the Confederate symbol in one portion of the flag made it unfit to fly...
“The University of Mississippi community came to the realization years ago that the Confederate battle flag did not represent many of our core values, such as civility and respect for others,” Interim Chancellor Morris Stocks said in the statement. “Since that time, we have become a stronger and better university. We join other leaders in our state who are calling for a change in the state flag.”
The student senate voted 33-15-1 to take the flag down on Oct. 20 and, six days later, the banner came down,,,,] http://www.foxnews.com/us/2015/10/26/university-mississippi-removes-state-flag/
Sunday, December 19, 2010
"The past isn't dead. It isn't even past." 150th Anniversary of Civil War Start, 20 Dec 2010
[But when it comes to the American Civil War, South Carolina is not ordinary. It was the state where passions ran highest then, and where the flame of the "Lost Cause" is most tenderly nourished now. The war was made inevitable by an act of defiance by South Carolina. How fitting, indeed how inevitable, that the 150th anniversary commemorations of the most traumatic and divisive event in the country's history should begin in similar vein, in the same state, tomorrow.
Whatever else the "Secession Ball" (tickets $100 apiece) at the handsome Gaillard Auditorium in downtown Charleston will be a colourful occasion. The programme kicks off with a 45-minute play re-enacting the signature of the Ordinance of Secession on 20 December 1860, by 170 delegates to a special convention set up by the South Carolina legislature as soon as news arrived of Abraham Lincoln's election victory on 6 November that year...
...Then there is the enduring fondness of the South for the death penalty, especially for African-Americans. Three-quarters of all executions in the US take place in the former Confederate states, a direct legacy of lynching and of slavery before that, when capital crimes were far more numerous for blacks than whites.
Most striking of all, perhaps, is the continuing debate over states' rights – the division of power between the centre and the 50 states. Then it was about slavery. But only last week the argument raised its head again, when a judge in Virginia ruled that with its requirement that every citizen purchase insurance coverage, Obama's new healthcare plan overstepped the power of central government. States' rights, too, are implicit in the platform of the Tea Party movement, with its hostility to "big government" from Washington...]
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-after-150-years-the-civil-war-still-divides-the-united-states-2164323.html
Whatever else the "Secession Ball" (tickets $100 apiece) at the handsome Gaillard Auditorium in downtown Charleston will be a colourful occasion. The programme kicks off with a 45-minute play re-enacting the signature of the Ordinance of Secession on 20 December 1860, by 170 delegates to a special convention set up by the South Carolina legislature as soon as news arrived of Abraham Lincoln's election victory on 6 November that year...
...Then there is the enduring fondness of the South for the death penalty, especially for African-Americans. Three-quarters of all executions in the US take place in the former Confederate states, a direct legacy of lynching and of slavery before that, when capital crimes were far more numerous for blacks than whites.
Most striking of all, perhaps, is the continuing debate over states' rights – the division of power between the centre and the 50 states. Then it was about slavery. But only last week the argument raised its head again, when a judge in Virginia ruled that with its requirement that every citizen purchase insurance coverage, Obama's new healthcare plan overstepped the power of central government. States' rights, too, are implicit in the platform of the Tea Party movement, with its hostility to "big government" from Washington...]
http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/rupert-cornwell/rupert-cornwell-after-150-years-the-civil-war-still-divides-the-united-states-2164323.html
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