SouthernN'Proud
Southern Discomfort
Recent postings from tonguetied.us.
Y'all (people in general) just can't let it alone, can you? Well then, guess that leaves it up to me to keep mouthing off about it too. Sauce for the goose and all that...Maybe, juuuuuuuust maybe, someone somewhere will come to the realization that the story has two sides.
Enjoy. Gonz, better don your asbestos body armor.
A columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says a man in Pennsylvania has no right to fly a Confederate flag in the back window of his private vehicle because it is an “an in-your-face expression of support for a white supremacist regime.”
Columnist Mike Seate says the construction worker’s display is “a cowardly way of intimidating blacks, a means of saying ‘You were better off as slaves.’"
Seate admits that employers have no legal authority over how employees choose to decorate their personal vehicles, but clearly hopes that by browbeating the company with his column, Acorn Hill Contracting, he can intimidate the man into removing the display.
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A small town in Florida is re-examinging its city logo because the two Confederate soldiers and the Confederate flag they are holding on it is not “inclusive of all the citizens” in town, reports Hernando Today.
A city councilman in the town of Brooksville north of Tampa, Frankie Burnett, says the logo is racist because of the tiny flag in the center.
The logo shows an American flag on one side and the state flag of Florida on the other. At the top of the logo is an eagle and at the bottom are two busts of Hernando Desoto and a Seminole Indian. In the middle are renderings of the county courthouse, a map of the state of Florida and two soldiers carrying the battle flag. (Sorry, my work puter will not allow me to download the image of the city seal of Brooksville, Florida.)
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A Georgia school district’s plans to name a school in honor of a 19th-century governor are under attack because the man has been described as a secessionist, reports the Associated Press.
The school board in Cherokee County wants to name the high school after Gov. Joseph Brown, who in addition to being governor of the state before the Civil War was a U.S. Senator and chief justice of the state supreme court. Brown was a teacher in the county at one point in his life.
But some parents say naming the school after him would be racist because of his views on slavery.
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Pop star Michael Jackson’s parents tell CBS News that the charges against their son amount to a racially motivated witch hunt that could only happen in America, reports The Age.
"This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them. It is racism," Michael's father Joe Jackson reportedly tells 48 Hours.
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[SnP pondering laboriously] Wonder what would happen if a large group of American citizens banded together and collectively initiated a campaign of misrepresentation, slander, prejudice, racial profiling, and downright harassment against one segment of its population? Oh yeah, that's right...they already have. [/ laborious pondering]
Y'all (people in general) just can't let it alone, can you? Well then, guess that leaves it up to me to keep mouthing off about it too. Sauce for the goose and all that...Maybe, juuuuuuuust maybe, someone somewhere will come to the realization that the story has two sides.
Enjoy. Gonz, better don your asbestos body armor.
A columnist for the Pittsburgh Tribune-Review says a man in Pennsylvania has no right to fly a Confederate flag in the back window of his private vehicle because it is an “an in-your-face expression of support for a white supremacist regime.”
Columnist Mike Seate says the construction worker’s display is “a cowardly way of intimidating blacks, a means of saying ‘You were better off as slaves.’"
Seate admits that employers have no legal authority over how employees choose to decorate their personal vehicles, but clearly hopes that by browbeating the company with his column, Acorn Hill Contracting, he can intimidate the man into removing the display.
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A small town in Florida is re-examinging its city logo because the two Confederate soldiers and the Confederate flag they are holding on it is not “inclusive of all the citizens” in town, reports Hernando Today.
A city councilman in the town of Brooksville north of Tampa, Frankie Burnett, says the logo is racist because of the tiny flag in the center.
The logo shows an American flag on one side and the state flag of Florida on the other. At the top of the logo is an eagle and at the bottom are two busts of Hernando Desoto and a Seminole Indian. In the middle are renderings of the county courthouse, a map of the state of Florida and two soldiers carrying the battle flag. (Sorry, my work puter will not allow me to download the image of the city seal of Brooksville, Florida.)
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A Georgia school district’s plans to name a school in honor of a 19th-century governor are under attack because the man has been described as a secessionist, reports the Associated Press.
The school board in Cherokee County wants to name the high school after Gov. Joseph Brown, who in addition to being governor of the state before the Civil War was a U.S. Senator and chief justice of the state supreme court. Brown was a teacher in the county at one point in his life.
But some parents say naming the school after him would be racist because of his views on slavery.
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Pop star Michael Jackson’s parents tell CBS News that the charges against their son amount to a racially motivated witch hunt that could only happen in America, reports The Age.
"This is just the United States. All the rest of the countries, all over the world, are proud of Michael. It's here we have the most trouble out of them. It is racism," Michael's father Joe Jackson reportedly tells 48 Hours.
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[SnP pondering laboriously] Wonder what would happen if a large group of American citizens banded together and collectively initiated a campaign of misrepresentation, slander, prejudice, racial profiling, and downright harassment against one segment of its population? Oh yeah, that's right...they already have. [/ laborious pondering]
