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January 14, 2005
Why Moonbats Hate the South
Politically correct leftists sure do seem to have it in for the South. Here's an example:
When a high school band in Madison, Wisconsin played "An American Trilogy" at the State Senate's inaugural ceremony earlier this month, State Senator Spencer Coggs was shocked to discover that in addition to "The Battle Hymn of the Republic" and "All My Trials," the medley included a few bars of "Dixie" — a tune made into a hit by Elvis Presley but thoroughly hated by those for whom any reference to the South or its culture is "offensive."
Coggs, being both a Democrat and black, presumably feels especially righteous about his intolerance of all things Southern. He fired off a letter of complaint to State Senate Majority Leader Dale Schultz, insisting that in the future, a list of songs be submitted in advance, so that anything not consistent with his sensitivities might be censored.
Schultz, a Republican, heroically apologized. Wallowing in the obsequiousness that PC browbeaters have come to expect in response to their repressive demands, he fawned, "I want everyone to feel included." Needless to say, "everyone" does not include anyone erroneous enough to take pride in their Southern heritage.
In case any time-travelers are reading this from an earlier century, slavery ended in the South almost 150 years ago, and there is a lot more to the region than that dark chapter in its history — a chapter shared with most of the world. An uproar over Dixie isn't about bigotry against blacks. It's about bigotry against Southerners, the kind that causes speaking with a drawl to knock 20 points off your perceived IQ in left-leaning quarters.
But don't condemn liberal elitists for this prejudice. Imagining that they are in a position to despise the denizens of "Jesusland" is a therapeutic outlet for the nastiness that seems to fester inside them, and also builds crucial self-esteem. Southerners do sometimes display a hard-headed literal-mindedness that prevents them from appreciating the usefulness of ideologies endorsed by those too enlightened to allow mundane reality to affect their point of view. Besides, who could expect moonbats to like a place known as both "The Sun Belt" and "The Bible Belt"? They might as well call it "The Garlic Belt."
Posted by Van Helsing at January 14, 2005 6:23 AM
Comments
Call me a racist, if you want, but if you're an African-American and the biggest source of grief in your life is that somebody is flying a rebel flag, this must be a pretty sweet time to be an African-Amaerican.
Posted by: V the K at January 14, 2005 5:23 PM
As an African American, I find the confederate flag very offensive. It is interesting to me that people like to pick and choose those things they want to associate with southern heritage. I do agree that southern heritage was and is more than slavery and discrimination.Many times I see defenders of the confederate flag asking people to think about other things than slavery when considering the flag. If I was apart of a region that advocated the eslavement of human beings so that my ancestors could live in luxrry, I would conviently try and forget those actions too! If I was apart of a region that tried to form my own nation to (in part) protect the right to keep these humans as property, I would conviently forget that period in history as well. Granted, slavery may have ended 150 years ago, but it will always be part of American history, it will always be part of southern history and it will always be associated with that rebel flag. Every time I see that flag, I dont see the good things about the south, I see the pain and agony of my people. I also see the nightmare that could have been.
Posted by: JAB at July 6, 2005 5:15 PM
