Post by tearitup on Jul 10, 2015 3:34:41 GMT
ANALYSIS/OPINION:
The South is the new China. Southerners, like the Chinese, revere the past, worship their ancestors (and their flags), and eat a lot of rice. William Faulkner observed that the past is not dead, because it is not even past.
He applied that sentiment only to Southerners, but if he had been among us over the past fortnight he would have revised it to include nearly everybody in America, where every day is Flag Day.
This confuses modern Americans because they don’t know much about the past. They certainly don’t revere it, and they wouldn’t worship their ancestors even if they knew who their great-great-grandfathers were. (Grandma wasn’t always sure.)
This fit of ethnic cleansing was inevitable, given the popularity of getting ourselves politically correct, which has grown from a cottage industry, employing mostly family and intimate friends, to a great industry embracing the likes of Amazon, Wal-Mart and eBay (where you can presumably sell your dirty family secrets).
What started with palpitations and occasional fainting spells at the sight of a Confederate flag, has become a nationwide search for something, anything, to bring on a cleansing fit of hysterics. Round and round it goes and where it stops nobody knows. When Rush Limbaugh observed the other day that what happened to the Confederate battle flag will eventually happen to Old Glory, a lot of people said, “well, there goes ol’ Rush again.”
But he had a point: “The American flag has flown over a slave nation much longer than the Confederate flag did.” When the firing on Fort Sumter set off the war, there were more slave states in the Union than in the Confederacy. At Appomattox there were still four slave states in the Union, with slavery preserved in them by Mr. Lincoln with exceptions noted in his Emancipation Proclamation.
Read more: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/25/wesley-pruden-ethinic-cleansing-of-the-american-so/#ixzz3fSKpT2XD
The South is the new China. Southerners, like the Chinese, revere the past, worship their ancestors (and their flags), and eat a lot of rice. William Faulkner observed that the past is not dead, because it is not even past.
He applied that sentiment only to Southerners, but if he had been among us over the past fortnight he would have revised it to include nearly everybody in America, where every day is Flag Day.
This confuses modern Americans because they don’t know much about the past. They certainly don’t revere it, and they wouldn’t worship their ancestors even if they knew who their great-great-grandfathers were. (Grandma wasn’t always sure.)
This fit of ethnic cleansing was inevitable, given the popularity of getting ourselves politically correct, which has grown from a cottage industry, employing mostly family and intimate friends, to a great industry embracing the likes of Amazon, Wal-Mart and eBay (where you can presumably sell your dirty family secrets).
What started with palpitations and occasional fainting spells at the sight of a Confederate flag, has become a nationwide search for something, anything, to bring on a cleansing fit of hysterics. Round and round it goes and where it stops nobody knows. When Rush Limbaugh observed the other day that what happened to the Confederate battle flag will eventually happen to Old Glory, a lot of people said, “well, there goes ol’ Rush again.”
But he had a point: “The American flag has flown over a slave nation much longer than the Confederate flag did.” When the firing on Fort Sumter set off the war, there were more slave states in the Union than in the Confederacy. At Appomattox there were still four slave states in the Union, with slavery preserved in them by Mr. Lincoln with exceptions noted in his Emancipation Proclamation.
Read more: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/jun/25/wesley-pruden-ethinic-cleansing-of-the-american-so/#ixzz3fSKpT2XD
