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Thread ID: 18067 | Posts: 1 | Started: 2005-05-02
2005-05-02 10:46 | User Profile
Friends,
We all spend a great deal of time, effort and money in this fight to save not only the physical monuments to our Confederate ancestors, but also to preserve the good name (the memory & historical record) of our gallant ancestors unsullied in a world that has literally grown to hate everything about the Confederacy.
The media even questions our right to exist. Politicians are ashamed (afraid) to be seen at our gatherings. The Confederate Battle Flag, our most meaningful symbol is almost illegal. To be associated with it brings derogatory labels and often discrimination. From the song "Dixie" down to the word "y'all," there is a rapid cleansing of anything Confederate or a diversity-worshipping rewritten version of their accomplishments.
But perhaps the most tragic loss we encounter is the daily reminder that the majority of "our people" are lost to us; proof that 140 years of yankee brainwashing has been successful. Southern children barely know who Robert E. Lee was and certainly never heard of Nathan Bedford Forrest; but they study "I have a Dream" every year in literature, from 8th grade through 11th, and they believe Abraham Lincoln the best president of the U.S. I doubt most high school seniors could tell you who Jefferson Davis was.
I read an article in Tuesday's "Mobile Register" entitled "Growing Pains Threat to Authentic South." It seems that the population trend is for the boomers to move south. In 25 years, nearly four in ten Americans will live in the South. This comes from a new prediction by the Census Bureau. Her last paragraph tugged at my emotions: "But something inevitably gets lost in this cross-fertilization. Once half the country moves south, and all things Southern become diluted and commodified, he authentic South will be lost again. This time forever."
How true and how sad. We are the ONLY section of multicultural AmeriKa left with a regional distinctiveness. I might add, a regional distinctiveness for which we have been denigrated and ridiculed for lo these 140 years.
So friends, even Time is against us along with the media, politicians, NAACP and apathetic native-born Southerners; for those migrating to the South will not have ANY inkling of what it means to be Southern.
We're faily intelligent people. THEN WHY DO WE KEPP ON WITH THS STRUGGLE AGAINST UNWINNABLE ODDS?
Sometimes we find an answer in strange places. Today I found the answer to the question above in the last paragraph in the very last book of a four-book series that I've been reading to my 8th grade grandson; in ALL places---a science fiction book.
We fight to keep HOPE ALIVE. For if HOPE ever dies, what have we passed on to the next generation?
As long as one of us resists and does not give over our heart and mind and will to our would-be conquerers, HOPE LIVES !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Forgive this rambling sentimentality, but sometimes my urge to write gets the better of my reason.
God Save the South. Ellen Williams 4-29-05