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If they come for us in the morning, they'll come for you that nite. We all
must fight this racism. Thought you'd like to know.
As always, I remain,
Yours in the struggle,
Stan
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 14:48:02 -0600 (CST)
From: "Jonathan D. Farley" <[log in to unmask]>
To: "Jonathan D. Farley" <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Confederate Memorial controversy---rapid media response required
Please forward this to black lists, and please RESPOND to "The Tennessean" at
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[If we are serious about defending our interests we will become as
vocal as our enemies are, who predictably are sending negative mail even
as I write.]
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Remnants of the Confederacy glorifying a time of tyranny
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By JONATHAN DAVID FARLEY
from "The Tennessean" newspaper
Wednesday, November 20, 2002
http://www.tennessean.com/opinion/nashville-eye/archives/02/11/25478205.shtml?Element_ID=25478205
A friend of mine told me that, whenever he drives by the statue of Civil
War general Nathan Forrest on Interstate 65, he always salutes it. With
his middle finger.
Nathan Forrest, as you'll recall, is the Confederate ''hero'' who founded
the Ku Klux Klan.
Today, 137 years after the last shot was fired in the Civil War, the enemy
regroups. Under pressure from students, Vanderbilt University dropped the
word ''Confederate'' from the name of its ''Confederate Memorial Hall.''
The United Daughters of the Confederacy (UDC), which contributed $50,000
towards the construction of the building, promptly sued Vanderbilt to get
their money back.
Just who are the Daughters of the Confederacy? In 1931, Nashville Chapter
No. 1 ''voted to see that the last meeting place of the Ku Klux Klan in
Nashville...[was] suitably marked.'' In 1944 and 1966, the UDC's minutes
record their opposition to integration. More recently, a Murfreesboro
woman whose family belongs to the UDC wrote me to say that Martin Luther
King's ''only contribution [was] to stir-up more prejudice and being
killed.''
Lest we forget, the Confederacy aimed to destroy the United States. Every
Confederate soldier, by the mores of his age and ours, deserved not a
hallowed resting place at the end of his days but a reservation at the end
of the gallows. The UDC honors traitors.
''But the war was not about slavery,'' they whine. ''It was about states'
rights.'' But the ''right'' Confederates sought to defend was the right to
murder, rape, and torture millions of Africans, with impunity.
Here is how one slave owner exercised his ''rights'': ''Through a period
of four months, including the latter stages of pregnancy, delivery, and
recent recovery therefrom...he beat [his slave] with clubs, iron chains
and other deadly weapons time after time, burnt her, inflicted stripes
over and often, with scourges.''
The Confederacy's own vice president, Alexander Stephens, declared that
the Confederacy ''rests upon the great truth that the negro is not the
equal of the white man, that slavery---the subordination to the superior
race---is his natural and normal condition.''
Today's Confederates, who deny that the war was about slavery, are the new
holocaust revisionists.
Black Americans and white Europeans object to the statue of a 19th century
Hitler standing in public view off an interstate highway. It and the
Confederate flags surrounding it represent nothing less than a death
threat against scores of millions of people of color. That monument must
go. Not only because it's racist and violent but also because it's just
plain ugly.
The issue is not black vs. white.
The mostly white Green Party of the United States has issued a statement
supporting Vanderbilt's decision. Southerners black and white recoil with
disgust when the UDC claims that it alone represents ''Southern
heritage.''
Here in Nashville, there are plans to investigate the source of the UDC's
funds. If researchers can trace them back to slavery, they will demand
that reparations be paid to the true children of the Confederacy---the
descendants of the slaves---before one cent is paid by Vanderbilt back to
the UDC.
Indeed, the race problems that wrack America to this day are due largely
to the fact that the Confederacy was not thoroughly destroyed, its leaders
and soldiers executed and their lands given to the landless freed slaves.
The Daughters of the Confederacy say we must remember their dead. And I
agree: Let us remember the cruelty inflicted upon helpless women and
children by cowards masquerading as civilized men.
The tyranny and evil they visited upon millions must never be forgotten.
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Jonathan David Farley, an assistant professor at Vanderbilt University, is
a former Fulbright Distinguished Scholar to the United Kingdom and a
recent guest on National Public Radio's The Tavis Smiley Show.
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From: "felton and or jennifer hudson" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Subject: Comments regarding the South's revolution
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 13:03:30 -0500
Have just read your fall into the slop of higher learning and political
correctness carried by the Tennessean and am repulsed beyond
comment-except to offer you some advice to stay in your academic field.
Surely you know more about math than you could ever learn in the rest of
your life about history or the scholarly manner in which to express your
misguided opinions. You have not only trashed many ancestors whose asses
you would not make a pimple on, let alone be their equal. But I guess
your duty as you saw it excuses such a massive scholarly suicide. Once
you have time to reflect on your editorial piece, I am sure the shame
will be suffocating. See you on Smiley Tavis.
Felton Hudson 1270 Cedar park place Stone Mountain, Ga. 30032
From: "MIKE & RHONDA BETHUNE" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
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Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 15:04:36 -0500
Mr. Farley
Just how ignorant can you truly be, for someone who seems to know so little about history you sure do have allot of opinions huh.
You seem to think that all southerners raped and murdered the slaves
when in fact about 6% of southerners even owned slaves so being the Math
professor you are, DO THE MATH. Now have you ever checked to see how the
slaves got here?, no because you would know they came from the Northern
people and their ships wouldn't you. But like all ignorant people you
don't care to learn the truth do you. I bet you also think Lincoln freed
the slaves too don't you? well once again read and learn the truth, have
you ever read the Emancipation Proclamation? why did he only free the
slaves in Confederate held states and not the Northern controlled border
states? You state that they raped and murdered the poor women and
children well buddy that is true but you know who did it ?, the northern
army when they invaded the south that's who. They destroyed everything
in their path, homes, lives and animals. So you tell me who is the 18th
century Hitler could it be Sherman, I THINK SO.
Ask yourself this, is the black race still to this day fighting for
their fair shake or are your people satisfied, well we have been under
the northern government for 140 years now so what's the problem? Oh I
know its the slave owners fault still huh, well sir then you don't give
your people very much credit do you. Oh just one last thing look at this
picture real good of the Confederate Veterans and you might be shocked.
I wonder if these guys deserve the gallows too.
Mike Bethune
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