MLK Day

[Southron Boy]

It quickly turned to Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson's B'day's. That did not surprise me in the least. Then, we went back and forth about the Civil War. The main message was missed. I do respect MLK and all he stood for, but the post turned out not about him.

Gary,

My intention wasn't to combat your original post, but political correctness seems to dictate that we praise men like Martin Luther King, Jr. and shun the memory of men like Robert E. Lee and Stonewall Jackson. I was just illumniating something that is usually ignored and drawing a contrast. Why are the others ignored? Is it based upon color? Bigotry towards the South? Is it based upon what these men stood for? Do most people REALLY know what they stood for? Men like Lee and Jackson were unrefutably icons of honor and gentlemanly conduct. They lived almost unsullied lives and possessed character virtually unseen since their time (Lee even graduated West Point without a single demerit).

I am not sure what you were getting at with poverty and education at the end of your last post, but I respect your views and enjoyed the opportunity to converse and spar on this subject. In contrast to your apparant opinion, I submit to you that it is not anger over the South being overrun by Yankee tyrants that motivates many of the commentators on this post, but a LOVE for what the South stood for: Principles of limited constitutional government and a government "by the consent of the governed" as the Declaration of Independence states. When those principles are overrun, however, it should anger any red-blooded American. I love our union, but as Vice President John C. Calhoun bodly declared, "The Union---next to our liberties most dear!"

...And I can't tell you how many times I've spoken on, and debated this in public---not just nameless internet forums where one can hide behide a computer screen like a gutless capon. I am not ashamed of what I believe, as I can see you are not ashamed either. I think you'd be suprised at how many Americans feel the same way about Dixie. Touche'