On tgirsch's Take on Confederate Symbols
Over at Lean Left tgirsch wrote "My Take on Confederate Symbols." I'll give you time to read it. Back? Prescheateit.
Well, I grew up in the gateway to the South and I have to tell tgirsch that he is wrong. Sorry, but there are only a few 16 year-old chowder heads who don't understand the symbology of the Confederate flag. And for that I'm glad. We need that flag. Hold up. Keep reading now.
That whole "Southern Pride" is to just shut up the Yankee reporters. When y'all aren't around nobody talks that shit. Ask him and he'll tell you the Confederate flag is stuck on that Ford truck for one reason -- cause that southern boy wants very much for the "federal guvmint" to get the hell out of his life.
He wants a return to the time when the South stood up and pissed on the North. Hell yes, they know they lost that war, but they damn well kicked some ass on the way. To these "Southern Gentlemen" it was only the first battle. The South could rise again. And who knows, maybe the next time they just might burn through Cleveland.
Oh sure, some just fly that flag cause they're proud. Proud that they're ignorant of "diversity." They don't give a good goddamn about "coloreds", "homo-sex-suals", or "papists." They simply don't like the North. (And you in the West-- well, you're the "North" too.) Worse than the North though is the "federal guvmint."
The damn federal government shoved "desegregation" down their daddy's throats, but that doesn't mean a pile of yellow-bellied dogshit. They know the South now has got some judges with balls. Judges who'll defy that federalfuckinggovernment and show the North "a country boy can survive."
They also know a few school officials with balls are making sure desegregation only applies to the dumb crackers too stupid to move or send their kids to god-fearing private schools.
Now don't get me wrong. Tgirsch was right about Southern hospitality. The Southerners I have quoted will say "Please" and "Yes, sir" and "thank you." They stop to help a stranger in broken down car and are truly offended when offered a reward. But you better be "free, white and legal." Else you are a stranger and not to be trusted.
Still with me? Those crackers aren't the only Southerners. There are many who look and have an accent just like the rednecks quoted above -- except they don't fly that flag. To these “New Southerners” the Confederate symbols represent a simple time. A time when misinformed Southern boys lost their lives. Misinformed because they truly believed they were fighting for family and self-determination. Poor ignorant boys fighting someone else’s war and for all the wrong reasons.
The problem is that the enlightened Southerners don't have a symbol. There just isn't a way for y'all to tell us apart. Except for that damn flag. Don't let anyone get rid of the Confederate flag. When I see that on a truck I instantly know the boy and his daddy. I know what to expect. I can teach my children who not to trust. You should learn a lesson from that.
How else could we keep an eye on our racists and ignorant? You have that problem in the North. Your racists walk among you unseen. They sit in cubicles and pass out papers like everyone else. You imagine taking them home to meet the wife until a slipped comment reveals hidden prejudices.
Should the Confederate flag fly over the state house? Oh hell no. But it doesn't fly there for "pride." No politician raises the confederate flag over state government for any reason other than to appease voters. They get to stand on the church steps and tell their neighbors the "Federal government is messin' in our bidness and I won't let 'em." They get heavy applause and some fried chicken and the promise of a votes.
But they'll pull that flag the minute the their constituents tip from "old southern guard" to the "new south." It's not like they are really taking a stand to protect some cherished heritage. They’re just politicians. The Confederate flag really doesn't mean anything to them.
Even the 16 year-old knows that. And thanks to that decal – I can keep my eye on him.
