Monthly Archives: March 2008

Educated viewpoint on the flag would help March 25, 2008 To the Editor: Due to the recent media attention toward the historic Confederate Flag, the Cumberland Historic Cemetery Organization feels an educated viewpoint should be expressed. Since 1983 this organization has upheld the values of the United States Constitution and the phrase in our pledge, "Liberty and justice for All." All Americans are created equally in the eyes of God. The CHCO [...]

Throw Grandma Under The Bus March 19, 2008 Obama gave a nice speech, except for everything he said about race. He apparently believes we're not talking enough about race. This is like hearing Britney Spears say we're not talking enough about pop-tarts with substance-abuse problems. By now, the country has spent more time talking about race than John Kerry has talked about Vietnam, John McCain has talked about being a POW, John [...]

Bro. Billy at it again! Cleburne's Birthday Wednesday, March 19, 2008 On Monday morning, March 17th, 2008, I would turn on my car radio to Carrollton station WBTR 92 FM (B92 Country) and hear mention of Major General Patrick Ronayne Cleburne's Birthday and that he was Cleburne County's namesake.He was born on St Patrick's day in County Cork Ireland. Hearing that I was reminded of all the wonderful times I had in [...]

History itself refutes Pitts' logic over Confederate flag Monday, March 17, 2008 Leonard Pitts, in his column March 5, "Nazis had 'heritage,' too," issued a challenge for anyone to refute his "logic" in his condemnation of the Confederate flag and those who support its symbolism of the South's heroism and dedication of Confederate soldiers to their home states in the Civil War. He said, "The one thing they will not be able [...]

NAACP: Tell 'whole story' of the Confederacy members not unreceptive to Confederate museum in the area Date published: 3/9/2008 BY DAN TELVOCK The Museum of the Confederacy in Richmond may have found more support for a facility in Spotsylvania County to house artifacts with local ties. Spotsylvania's chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People hasn't endorsed the museum, but some members said last week they would support the [...]

Black Man Proud Of Confederate Flag John Pless March 12, 2008 Many heads turned in Ringgold Wednesday when they saw an African-American man dressed in a Confederate soldier's uniform, carrying a Confederate flag. It wasn't a joke. H.K. Edgerton came to Ringgold to make a bold statement - he opposes city leader's removing the Confederate flag from the city's flag pole. Edgerton says the Confederate flag is misunderstood, feared and hated because [...]

Letter: Learn Civil War history Wednesday, March 12, 2008 Opinion Leonard Pitts Jr., normally a rational journalist, has gone off on another ignorant tirade: Any mention of the Confederacy is automatically a blatantly racist diatribe. Too bad he slept through American History 101. The Confederate battle flag an American swastika? Since the Stars and Stripes flew over a legal slave nation for nearly 100 years, is that also a swastika? Unfortunately, the [...]

Nazi comparison out-of-bounds 3/12/2008 There is a certain newspaper (used in the very loosest term of the definition), who put an article originally printed in the Miami Herald as "Advice to a Young Colleague." Apparently, it wasn't enough that Leonard Pitts, the author of said article, tries in vain to twist history to fit his own agenda. No it wasn't. The newspaper decided to title it with this vile comparison. The paper, [...]

The Assault on Southern Heritage Heats Up 3/11/2008 By CopperHead, Lady Val From what I have read, it seems every two minutes or so, another column is written by someone somewhere which defines the Confederacy, its symbols, Southern history and traditional Southerners as hateful, racist and even as "Nazis". Nowhere are any dissenting voices heard to answer to these often abysmally ignorant diatribes except for those few responses from readers in "Letters [...]