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September 8, 2011
Southern Town of Lexington, Virginia, Bans Flying Of The Confederate Flag - Political Correctness Run Amok!
Topics: Culture and Society, Political News and commentariesMy paternal grandfather, Jeronimo, was a wise and learned man. Not because he attended college - he barely completed a primary education - or had a worthless piece of paper hanging on the wall attesting to his societal compliance with attending classes to be indoctrinated by a Marxist ideologue professor at a university, having learned little or nothing, like most kids nowadays; but because he was an avid reader and loved knowledge for its own sake.
He loved to quote old Spanish Proverbs, one of which was: "The line between the sublime and the ridiculous is a tenuous one." He was so right!
In our politically correct sublimity we have not only long crossed that tenuous line into the ridiculous, but are way out there into the totally absurd and asinine!
For instance, recently, the City Council of the town of Lexington, Virginia, a town so intertwined in its history with the Confederacy and the South, and where the main tourist attraction and what puts the town on the map today, is its history and the fact that the two greatest generals of the Confederacy, Generals Robert E. Lee and "Stonewall" Jackson, are buried there, voted to ban the flying of the Confederate flag in the township from city-owned poles, demonizing the historical relic as "offensive and divisive", no doubt trying in the zeal of their "white guilt" and "political correctness" gone wild, to assuage "Eternal Black Grievance" and "Eternal Black Victimization" - as if such a thing was possible...
Personally what I find "divisive and offensive" is that eternally aggrieved blacks would dare tell white Southerners to turn their backs on their heritage and their kin who shed their blood under those colors! If they are so incised about the slavery of one hundred fifty years ago, why don't they rather do something about the "Black on Black" slavery going on right now in their beloved Africa they are so proud of, instead of fighting the ghost of the long gone Confederacy, the hypocrites!
On the lighter side of this farce, perhaps what the Lexington City Council dreaded was that if they had Confederate flags flying the "Obamamessiah" won't visit. What a tragedy!
I say, the City Council may as well have gone a tad further and rather than just banning the flying of the historically significant Confederate flag, fly the red, black, and green "Afro" flag from every lamppost and flag pole in town...politically correct groveling fools!
I am sure most visitors to Lexington come to immerse themselves in history and visit the tombs of Generals Lee and "Stonewall Jackson", and the Confederacy and the Confederate flag are an integral part of that history! Talk about the fine line between the sublime and the ridiculous! This is way out there utterly asinine!
Another old Proverb my grandfather Jeronimo used to quote was: "To know where you are headed, you must know whence you came from".
Banning the Confederate flag and trying to sweep under the rug our proud Southern traditions, the Confederacy, and all that has to do with the South, as if it never existed, in order to appease "black sensitivities" is simply absurd!
Shameful as slavery may seem to us now, within the historical context in which it was carried out in the agrarian South it had been the "modus operandi" and the tradition for centuries since the South was first settled, long before the War of Independence.
And in fact, though slavery was one of the issues stoking the flames of the conflict, the reasons for secession from the Union were in fact many, not the least of which was "State's Rights" versus Federal tyranny, abusive tariffs and trade practices between the North and the South, and the animus and bad blood caused by the "Elitist" patronizing attitude with which Northerners treated Southerners in general - guess not much has changed in one hundred fifty years!
We can't simply wipe away our Southern heritage on account that people of a certain skin hue and ethnicity still hold a grudge to the Confederacy, a hundred forty eight years after the Declaration of Emancipation - ironically for all the good it has done them living, as most black Americans do today, beholden to the "Welfare Pimps" overseers of the "Democrat's Plantation"; exchanging in fact white Southern masters for black "Welfare Pimps" Federal ones!
There are many beautiful and worthwhile things in our Southern heritage, other than "slavery", that should be remembered and cherished, many of which, ironically, are an integral part of American black culture and of the American black experience, such as Southern cooking, arts and crafts, story telling, and many other facets of Southern culture that Southern blacks adopted.
In one of Voltaire's books, the protagonist is pleading with an angel come to destroy humanity for its wickedness and corruption. The man makes a beautiful statue made of gold, silver, copper, lead, and baser metals. He asks the angel if the statue was beautiful. The angel answered "Yes". The protagonist then pleads with the angel: "Would you then destroy this beautiful statue because it is not all made of gold or silver, but has baser elements in it?" The angel then, taking what the man implied, answered: "It is true. It would be a shame to destroy such a beautiful statue on account of its baser elements. Likewise I won't destroy humanity on account of the good and beautiful in it."
In like manner, we should stop all this asinine political correctness that wishes to erase all memory of our proud Southern heritage on account of slavery, rather cherish the beautiful things in its legacy, and fly with pride that Confederate flag, that more than for slavery and oppression, stood for family, friends, and neighbors, and the indomitable spirit of independence of the South!
Posted by Althor at September 8, 2011 10:48 AM
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