Author Topic: museum of the confederacy (Read 1857 times)

Jackal1 · « **Reply #15 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:40:32 AM »

Just as long as the dang Yankees are still buying that silly rumor that they won, anything can happen.

Captain Virgil Hilts · « **Reply #16 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:49:24 AM »

We have some loser moron here in Tennessee demanding that Middle Tennessee State University change the name on the military science building to something besides "General Nathan Bedford Forrest". The stupid twit doesn't even have a class in the building. She just feels she "ought to be doing something about things like that". I think she should go about 40 miles away and attend Tennessee State University.

lazs2 · « **Reply #17 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:57:27 AM »

Was ashe such a great tennis player that they had to have a statue of him? Is the south that into tennis?

lazs

Jackal1 · « **Reply #18 on:** February 21, 2007, 07:59:55 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
Is the south that into tennis?

lazs

Only when Biff and Buffy are in town.

lazs2 · « **Reply #19 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:08:48 AM »

is he in tennis clothes and holding a racket in the statue? I didn't even know he was that great of a player.

lazs

midnight Target · « **Reply #20 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:24:55 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
is he in tennis clothes and holding a racket in the statue? I didn't even know he was that great of a player.

lazs

He was ranked #1 in the world in 1968 and 1975.

MoeRon · « **Reply #21 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:28:35 AM »

tennis was huge in the 70's, i remember the battle of the sexes and all that rubbish, lotsa big sideburns.....even on the women:D

john9001 · « **Reply #22 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:30:41 AM »

someday people might refer to that war as "the first civil war".

lazs2 · « **Reply #23 on:** February 21, 2007, 08:31:39 AM »

Ok then... makes sense... local boy makes good. even if you don't like tennis he would be someone the locals would want to show off.

lazs

Red Tail 444 · « **Reply #24 on:** February 21, 2007, 09:56:29 AM »

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Originally posted by lazs2
Ok then... makes sense... local boy makes good. even if you don't like tennis he would be someone the locals would want to show off.

lazs

He is known more for what he did off the court than on, and it's a bit more significant than "local boy makes good."

AFAIAC may as well keep the museum's name as it stands. I have no sympathy for people who take up arms against the US government, but they have a right to name the museum as they please.

The attack on Fort Sumter was the first form of terrorism on American soil.

wklink · « **Reply #25 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:03:45 AM »

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Originally posted by Jackal1
Just as long as the dang Yankees are still buying that silly rumor that they won, anything can happen.

Ummm.

We destroyed your armies, we burned your cities, we sunk your fleet, we completely changed your way of life and your economy. We won the war. All of your greatest generals were either killed or had to swear allegance to the United States. Your government ceased to exist after 1864.

Of course in the end we declared victory and pulled out, letting the original perpetrators of slavery bring it back under a different name (ie Jim Crow).

In that end we lost that aspect of the war, but I don't think most Southerners are too proud of Segregation, the Klan and seperate water fountains and bathrooms. As far as I am concerned, as a Northerner, it is the North's shame that we let it happen and the South's shame that they even thought of it.

MoeRon · « **Reply #26 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:53:22 AM »

you guys talk as if the Mason-Dixon line still exists.....does it?

namvet · « **Reply #27 on:** February 21, 2007, 10:59:30 AM »

I think the south has already paid enough for their crimes. Forced to live in trailers and talk like idiots for 150 years. I say we let them rejoin society.

Reschke · « **Reply #28 on:** February 21, 2007, 11:01:32 AM »

We have a saying down here that goes sort of like this.

AMERICAN BY BIRTH......SOUTHERN BY THE GRACE OF GOD!!!!

If you don't like southern heritage then go back to Yankee land!

If it weren't for all of our fathers (northerner and southerners) sacrifices since the beginning of this great nation none of us would be in this position to argue this point today. Segregation wasn't just a southern thing it was all over our nation and in some ways its worse in the north today than it ever was down here. I think most people in the south (save those you see after a tornado destroyed their trailer and sent "old blue" into the pine tree) don't hold one ounce of racism in their minds or hearts.

Chilli · « **Reply #29 on:** February 21, 2007, 11:51:16 AM »

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Originally posted by DREDIOCK
H.K. Edgerton Says

Grow a thicker skin.

There are much more important things to be offended over

Sorry, but it's the only skin that I'm in.

Museums do a great service to enlighten curious onlookers to historical artifacts and give us a glimpse of what living in another era might have presented. This museum is in trouble and actually moving. Due to the growth and poor planning there is no adequate parking. If you lived here, you probably drove by it and didn't notice it at all. The building will still be there, but talk of moving the museum is not surprising. What is surprising is the rejection of the "Confederacy" Museum in Lexington.

Very quickly, educate more people on what caused brother to fight against brother. Break down the half truths about who fought and why. Don't try and forget it. Learn from it so that this will never again be repeated.

This is still relatively a recent event in our history. Just four generations separates me from serving young kids to teaching them. What concerns me, is how some use the Confederate flag to symbolize hatred and not unity. Outside of paying hommage to those men who bravely fought for their beliefs, I have no use for it.

Ending thought: Thick skin only protects the more vulnerable internals from repititous irritation (up to some point).