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Don't Blame Just the South
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Don't Blame Just the South
By Al Benson, Jr.
Published 09. 20. 02 at 17:52 Sierra Time
xxx Recently I came across an article published in something called "The Chronicle." It is labeled as "The independent daily at Duke University." Needless to say, the article was another one by a know-it-all college student attacking the South. The columnist, one Nick Christie, is an associate sports editor for "The Chronicle." He should have stuck to sports instead of getting in over his head in "history" about which he seems to have so little understanding.
The thrust of Mr. Christie's article seems to be that the South is really not a land of friendly people and Southern hospitality (I have always found it so) but is, in reality, a land seething with violence and cruelty. He writes: "In reality, the South's history is one of barbarous cruelty. It's long heritage is nasty, brutish and repellent, and its crimes against humanity cannot be pinned on some fringe minority." According to Christie's lights, being a Southerner makes you guilty. That's it!
As support for this diatribe against the South and its people, he cites a web site on the Internet called "Without Sanctuary." This site contains a whole batch of photos of lynched black people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This seems to be Christie's criteria for how bad the South really is. There are something like 81 photographs of lynchings from all over the place. Just to get a feel for this site, I looked up and checked out the first 50 photos of lynchings. I will grant that many of them took place in the South. However, there were several that were just listed as "location unknown." There was one photo of a white man that had been lynched at an "unknown location." There were also several pictures of lynchings that took place in such diverse locations as Duluth, Minnesota; Marion, Indiana; Hastings, Nebraska; Helena, Montana; and several photos of a lynching that occurred in Cairo, Illinois. One even took place in abolitionist Kansas. I suppose Mr. Christie can find some way to justify blaming all of these on "white" hatred in the South! Why, pray tell, is a lynching in South Carolina worse than one in Minnesota? Are Northern lynchings somehow exempt from hatred?
Christie wrote: "One could write for years about the horrific brutality that took place all over the South." Did Christie bother to check out any of the other places where these lynchings took place? Or did he only see what he wanted to see, or what he had been conditioned to see?
Christie claims to have lived most of his life in the South. (Does that make him guilty like it seem to with other Southerners, or is he the one Southerner that is somehow exempt from the hatred that infects all the rest?) One has to wonder what type of education Christie received there. If he went through the government school system there is no doubt that he has been severely indoctrinated with anti-Southern sentiment and now he has gone on to a university that will infect him with more of the same. Anybody today that thinks the government schools or the universities in the South will promote and/or protect Southern heritage is several fries short of a "happy meal." These institutions exist for the purpose of destroying Southern heritage and making Southern young people so ashamed of their heritage that they seek at an early age to disown it. Such tactics seem to have worked with Mr. Christie.
When I lived in the North, I worked with several Northern folks that were genuinely sympathetic to the old South. However, I worked with one man, born and raised in the South, who thought I was a rank traitor because I dared to defend the old Confederacy and her cause. He thought Lincoln was the greatest thing since sliced bread and, I concluded, sadly, that this man's education had taught him to be ashamed of his heritage.
New Yorker John *, in an article in "Chronicles" magazine several years ago, dealt with this very situation. His article was entitled "Education for a Conquered Nation." In it he dealt with "education" in the South after the War of Northern Aggression and during "reconstruction." Mr. *, in dealing with the infamous Morrill Act, noted that: "It's stated objective was to fund colleges that teach agriculture and the mechanic arts, via money raised through federal land grant sales. The true objective was to bring the Northern perspective to the reconquered areas of the South, to teach the rebel's children 'respect for national authority'--to break their rebellious spirit forever. The three R's had absolutely nothing to do with this landmark bill." * continued: "The land grants had hidden strings. Washington controlled curriculum. To insure a uniformly, nationalized, anti-Southern slant, land and money could be taken from one state and given to another."
* emphasized again: "The three R's took a backseat, destruction of the Democratic party was the highest objective. New textbooks were created and all the subjects taught from this perspective." So, basically, all Southern education has been under Washington's control at least since the implementation of "reconstruction." A friend of mine, who is a Presbyterian minister and a very able historian was well, told me that the Southern people have been among the most heavily indoctrinated in the country, and I cannot argue with him. They have been placed on "stools of everlasting repentance" and have been taught for generations how wrong their fathers were to secede from Lincoln's wonderful Union. Sorry folks, but that's hogwash!
So one can expect little more from the likes of Mr. Christie than the drivel which he spews about how bad the South is. He is, undoubtedly, a prime example of the effect of decades of Yankee propaganda.
The South is made up of people that have sinful human natures, exactly like the people in the rest of the country. Original sin being what it is, people are going to do bad things--all people, not just Southerners. For all her problems, the South has remained one of the last strongholds of Christianity in this hemisphere. Of course with the brainwashing he has received, Christie can't even begin to grasp such a truth--and "those people" that are educating him will work hard to make sure that he never does.
http://www.sierratimes.com/02/09/21/albenson.htm
c 2002 SierraTimes.com
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878
By Al Benson, Jr.
Published 09. 20. 02 at 17:52 Sierra Time
xxx Recently I came across an article published in something called "The Chronicle." It is labeled as "The independent daily at Duke University." Needless to say, the article was another one by a know-it-all college student attacking the South. The columnist, one Nick Christie, is an associate sports editor for "The Chronicle." He should have stuck to sports instead of getting in over his head in "history" about which he seems to have so little understanding.
The thrust of Mr. Christie's article seems to be that the South is really not a land of friendly people and Southern hospitality (I have always found it so) but is, in reality, a land seething with violence and cruelty. He writes: "In reality, the South's history is one of barbarous cruelty. It's long heritage is nasty, brutish and repellent, and its crimes against humanity cannot be pinned on some fringe minority." According to Christie's lights, being a Southerner makes you guilty. That's it!
As support for this diatribe against the South and its people, he cites a web site on the Internet called "Without Sanctuary." This site contains a whole batch of photos of lynched black people from the late 19th and early 20th centuries. This seems to be Christie's criteria for how bad the South really is. There are something like 81 photographs of lynchings from all over the place. Just to get a feel for this site, I looked up and checked out the first 50 photos of lynchings. I will grant that many of them took place in the South. However, there were several that were just listed as "location unknown." There was one photo of a white man that had been lynched at an "unknown location." There were also several pictures of lynchings that took place in such diverse locations as Duluth, Minnesota; Marion, Indiana; Hastings, Nebraska; Helena, Montana; and several photos of a lynching that occurred in Cairo, Illinois. One even took place in abolitionist Kansas. I suppose Mr. Christie can find some way to justify blaming all of these on "white" hatred in the South! Why, pray tell, is a lynching in South Carolina worse than one in Minnesota? Are Northern lynchings somehow exempt from hatred?
Christie wrote: "One could write for years about the horrific brutality that took place all over the South." Did Christie bother to check out any of the other places where these lynchings took place? Or did he only see what he wanted to see, or what he had been conditioned to see?
Christie claims to have lived most of his life in the South. (Does that make him guilty like it seem to with other Southerners, or is he the one Southerner that is somehow exempt from the hatred that infects all the rest?) One has to wonder what type of education Christie received there. If he went through the government school system there is no doubt that he has been severely indoctrinated with anti-Southern sentiment and now he has gone on to a university that will infect him with more of the same. Anybody today that thinks the government schools or the universities in the South will promote and/or protect Southern heritage is several fries short of a "happy meal." These institutions exist for the purpose of destroying Southern heritage and making Southern young people so ashamed of their heritage that they seek at an early age to disown it. Such tactics seem to have worked with Mr. Christie.
When I lived in the North, I worked with several Northern folks that were genuinely sympathetic to the old South. However, I worked with one man, born and raised in the South, who thought I was a rank traitor because I dared to defend the old Confederacy and her cause. He thought Lincoln was the greatest thing since sliced bread and, I concluded, sadly, that this man's education had taught him to be ashamed of his heritage.
New Yorker John *, in an article in "Chronicles" magazine several years ago, dealt with this very situation. His article was entitled "Education for a Conquered Nation." In it he dealt with "education" in the South after the War of Northern Aggression and during "reconstruction." Mr. *, in dealing with the infamous Morrill Act, noted that: "It's stated objective was to fund colleges that teach agriculture and the mechanic arts, via money raised through federal land grant sales. The true objective was to bring the Northern perspective to the reconquered areas of the South, to teach the rebel's children 'respect for national authority'--to break their rebellious spirit forever. The three R's had absolutely nothing to do with this landmark bill." * continued: "The land grants had hidden strings. Washington controlled curriculum. To insure a uniformly, nationalized, anti-Southern slant, land and money could be taken from one state and given to another."
* emphasized again: "The three R's took a backseat, destruction of the Democratic party was the highest objective. New textbooks were created and all the subjects taught from this perspective." So, basically, all Southern education has been under Washington's control at least since the implementation of "reconstruction." A friend of mine, who is a Presbyterian minister and a very able historian was well, told me that the Southern people have been among the most heavily indoctrinated in the country, and I cannot argue with him. They have been placed on "stools of everlasting repentance" and have been taught for generations how wrong their fathers were to secede from Lincoln's wonderful Union. Sorry folks, but that's hogwash!
So one can expect little more from the likes of Mr. Christie than the drivel which he spews about how bad the South is. He is, undoubtedly, a prime example of the effect of decades of Yankee propaganda.
The South is made up of people that have sinful human natures, exactly like the people in the rest of the country. Original sin being what it is, people are going to do bad things--all people, not just Southerners. For all her problems, the South has remained one of the last strongholds of Christianity in this hemisphere. Of course with the brainwashing he has received, Christie can't even begin to grasp such a truth--and "those people" that are educating him will work hard to make sure that he never does.
http://www.sierratimes.com/02/09/21/albenson.htm
c 2002 SierraTimes.com
"If cowardly and dishonorable men sometimes shoot unarmed men with army pistols or guns, the evil must be prevented by the penitentiary and gallows, and not by a general deprivation of a constitutional privilege." - Arkansas Supreme Court, 1878