Comments by rebel4ever
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Posted on August 30 at 9:50 p.m.
Okay, 2008, so you didn't mean it as it sounded. Then please explain if you have so much knowledge of the urban ghettos why you posted "bubble of racism (kind of like now in the south)”. Why did you single out the South when racism is all over the country?
And the only thing that will make my rear end feel better is when all of the bleeding heart liberals, oh, I'm so sorry white folks get out of my South and let us live the way we want to. If they can't fix their own back yard up north or in wherever, then don't come down here telling us how to do it.
And, by the way, I used to be very tolerant but not anymore. I am sick of hearing certain organizations bemoan the Confederate flag because it doesn't fit their philosophy. I am tired of certain groups thinking I owe them something when all I owe them is respect when earned or help when it is desparately needed. And, since the topic was orginally about Woodstock, I wish we could have had the Utopia we all dreamed of through the music and the fog. But, we didn't and it ain't going to happen. Reality set in and so far it hasn't been real pretty. I will just keep trying to make my South the beautiful place it was once and God willing will be again.
Posted on August 28 at 9:31 p.m.
2008 you stated in your post "bubble of racism (kind of like now in the south)". Just exactly what the he** do you mean by that? Racism is prevalent all over this country. I have friends in the north that send their kids to all white public schools. They are still allowed to have neighborhood schools so if they don't have any other races in their neighborhood then it is all that color. Why do so many poor black families live in Harlem, New York or Cabrini-Green in Chicago or East LA, California? Your statement really chaps my rear end and has no basis in fact other that what the fed. government and certain organizations like to pass off for fact. Racism is all the South's fault. Read some history before you make a statement like that. I am surprised that others did not catch it or comment.
Posted on August 17 at 9:35 p.m.
Why is it always about race you say. Because do you honestly believe that there ever could be a building housing artifacts in this or any other town in this guilt-ridden, oh, I'm so sorry politically correct country of ours that would read the Natchez Association for the Preservation of Euro-American Culture Museum. Of course not. Now some blacks, reds, yellows or whatever color of the spectrum you are from would not care but you can bet the liberal media and the NAACP would be the first to cray RACISM. But, we (Euro-Americans) don't try to stop such things as the Forks of the Road, NAPAC, NAACP, SPLC or any other group because this is a "free" country. We may not agree with the agendas of some of those groups and yes we may complain to others or on these comment boards but we will and many have fought for the right to express those opinions. But, the bottom line is some of us are just tired of having it shoved down our throat by the liberal media.
Posted on July 27 at 9:16 p.m.
I have been in the health care field for 25 years and the solution to the problem is somewhat simple. Let the federal government spend their money going after the fraud. I have seen it first hand. It is rampant, even right here in the MissLou. I am not going to give details because I must live here and I want to do that in peace. The government created the mess with Medicare payments and the way they are structured to allow the fraud to make physicians more money. Now, by trying to reduce payments to those physicians it is creating more fraud because in order to keep or maintain their expensive lifestyles they must come up with some way to make more money. Therefore the system is cheated. It is a vicious cycle and it was created by the government so do we really expect them to fix it, I don't think so.
Posted on July 25 at 10:21 p.m.
I think to have the Blue and Black reenactment at Jefferson College is a joke. Why not have it at the bottom of Roth Hill close to where the white Union soldiers kept their black comrades. They were not allowed to stay up on the bluff at Fort McPherson. There is plenty of space at the bottom of the hill for them to set up their little show. If I am not mistaken, Ser-Shesh may be able to help me here, but what did the Buffalo Soldiers ("and is about the Buffalo Soldiers I believe")have to do with anything in Mississippi or Natchez. The Buffalo Soldiers were not formed until Sept. 1866 and these regiments served at a variety of posts in the Southwestern United States (Apache Wars) and Great Plains regions.
Posted on June 24 at 10:21 p.m.
"butch" you say, "Even though your ancestors raped African women down to the ground"
I need to ask how do you know that all the women were raped. They could have possibly been complicit in the acts. Not every slave was treated horrendously. I will admit there were some cruel slave owners and overseerers but not everyone treated their slaves in a bad way outside of owning another human being. One good example is Joseph Davis, Jefferson's older brother. He trusted one of his slaves enough to make him his plantation manager. He instituted a court system ran by the slaves to deal with the slaves when needed. He built them a church and allowed them to keep any money they received for the toils outside of his plantation. He was not alone in doing this. Slavery was bad, but at the time it was a needed institution because of the large amount of labor needed in the agricultural South. It would have ended in time anyway and probably sooner if the North under Lincoln would have agreed to a plan of reimbursing the slave owner for freeing his property and allowing the people of the South to work out a plan to help educate the people before just blatantly releasing them unprepared to function in society. Once freed and adjusted many as we all know contributed greatly to society.
But, all the discussions about slavery aside, the facts are out there for much debate and none of those facts give me any reason to be ashamed of my Confederate ancestors that fought in a war for their independence from the compact they had made under the Constitution. They basically felt that the government of the States United no longer was in their best interest and chose to leave it, not conquer it or take it over. The South just wanted to create their own government to serve their interests, just like the colonies did with England.
Posted on June 22 at 9:40 p.m.
What I find interesting is that the Democrat covers everything about the black/slavery experience but they didn't send anyone to cover the Confederate Memorial Day service back in April. They can't say they didn't know about it because I posted the event on their online calendar. Sounds kind of one-sided reporting to me. Some people that are proud of their ancestors might have liked to have read about that. Oh, and I am not saying they shouldn't cover the ceremony held at the Forks. I just wish they would be fair in their reporting.
Posted on April 22 at 9:05 p.m.
Okay, for just a minute let's forget the racist remarks and consider this: since Obama has taken office his socialist agenda is running full speed ahead. Watch some of the commentary on Fox News, which I believe is the only network that is semi-reporting the truth about this president. His newest attempt at subterfuge is creating the mess with the CIA torture scenarios. All this is doing is dragging our country down further and keeping the focus off of his violations of the 9th and 10th Amendments. His hero was Lincoln and he seems to be following in his footsteps very well by trampling all over the Constitution and quietly taking our freedoms away. I hope the T.E.A. parties are just the beginning. We need to stop the uncaring central government and return to a smaller federal government as the Constitution and our Founding Fathers intended. I would even venture to suggest looking at secession again if the central government no longer is in our best interest as a Sovereign State. I would like to close by pointing out that this mess is not Obama's fault entirely because he could do nothing if the Congress didn't let him. We need to march on Washington and clean everyone of them out of the capitol building and start from scratch.
Posted on April 1 at 9:28 p.m.
teach4peace your wrote "but he's YOUR President of these United States". I take exception to that statement. I live in a Federally occupied district of the sovereign State of Mississippi. Mississippi is a member of the Confederate States of America, which may have lost the War for Southern Independence in 1865, the armies surrendered but the CSA government never did. We are silently awaiting our time to reestablish our rights as a free and independent confederation of eleven sovereign states. As our former president, Jefferson Davis stated, "The principle for which we contend is bound to reassert itself, though it may be at another time and in another form." With the current atmosphere in Washington due to the election of your president I believe our time may be at hand.
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Posted on November 4 at 11:46 a.m.
well, so it passed. i guess with the impending tax increase to pay for it i will have to move. i'm struggling now to stay in my house and put food on the table. i can't take any more increases because the only thing not increasing is my take home pay. it is not that i am against the project, i just think it could have waited until things got better from an economic standpoint. i never did buy the line that we had to make a decision based on the "now or never" comment and since when does a government need a vote just to look into a project? i do not trust the officials and their comments on this one at all. we will bear a another tax burden, you can bank on that.
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