I thought the fights last night were great. My teammates did an excellent job. James McSweeney fought a very smart, exciting fight and Darrell was very tough. I was gutted to see Brendan lose but he did great. He dominated the standup fight, and was able to escape from bad positions under Roy. He made one mistake in turning his head as he jabbed and Roy's punch landed just below and behind his ear. A punch there will put anyone down. Brendan has a bright future in the UFC and is a warrior. He'll bounce right back. I'm off to eat breakfast with Tess and Georges.


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Lorraine Salvador is a Melbourne based professional singer and music educator. She holds an Undergraduate Degree in Music from Monash University and has studied contemporary singing in Australia, Italy and the United States. Lorraine works for multiple music schools and Secondary Colleges across Melbourne as a VCE Music vocal teacher and a choir director. Lorraine has also worked as a musical director and vocal director for high schools and amateur theatre companies across Melbourne. She is passionate about teaching and enjoys sharing her knowledge and insight with all of her students.
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Should you oversize your solar array / undersize your inverter?
After numerous questions about the relationship between solar panel power and inverter power, I decided to put together this blog post.
Now logically, if you have (say) 3,000 Watts of solar panels on your roof, you would expect that a 3000 Watt inverter would be the perfect match, right?
There are a number of issues to consider which might determine the ideal inverter size. I'll take you through them.
The first and most important issue to remember is the rating of our 3,000 Watt solar panels is a peak, or instantaneous rating. Solar panels produce different amounts of power depending on their orientation and angle towards the sun, temperature, the density of the air and so on. So, for consistency they are all produced, tested and rated under "Standard Test Conditions" which happens to be 25 degrees C, 1000W m2 of sunlight and an Air Mass Density of 1.5. This is similar to a 100HP engine rating for example. A 100HP engine will only actually produce 100HP under a certain set of circumstances (temperature, tuning, fuel type, throttle position etc). Any change to these conditions or wear and tear and your engine won't produce 100HP and it's the same for solar panels.
Secondly, the peak available sunshine actually occurs for a very short period of time during the day (around 1-2hrs) and either side of that time of course, the output is less.
So, when you take into account seasonal and weather variations, non optimal conditions, efficiency losses, DC to AC losses and the natural degradation of components, you are extremely unlikely to ever see 3,000 Watts from your 3,000 Watt solar system. A rough rule of thumb I use (after two decades of looking at data) is that you will typically see around 80% of the peak output rating as a real peak power – so around 2,400 Watts.The Alternative Technology Association has a story about this here.
"But that's a rip off !" I hear you say.
Well, if it's sold honestly and clearly, it's not because this is disclosed. More importantly, solar design is more about daily energy than instantaneous energy and we have great standards and design rules for calculating energy output from solar systems which take this into account.
2 – To Upsize or Downsize?
Occasionally you will see solar systems that have oversized inverters, for example a 3,000 Watt solar array with a 5,000 Watt inverter. This is sold as a feature to allow the upgrading of your solar array in the future. It's a reasonable approach assuming that you can find the panels to match in a few years, the engineering is done right to avoid losses and you don't mind spending money on something that you may or may not use in the future.
Quite often you will also see undersized inverters, for example a 3,000 Watt solar array with a 2,400 Watt inverter. This is sold as a feature (sometimes referred to as overclocking) to fully maximise the inverter capacity and save on costs and is also a reasonable approach. However the engineering and design needs to be spot on or you can damage the inverter. the Clean Energy Council design rules specifically take this into account and allows overclocking of up to 30% within its guidelines.
So, you can quite reasonably upsize and downsize, within the rules, depending on what you are trying to achieve but importantly, the inverter needs to be able to handle it.
To a case in point, we quite regularly sell systems that are downsized (on the inverter) for cost and performance maximisation and where we have components that are ideally matched. For example, a 315 Watt (DC) LG Neon solar panel matched to an Enphase 250 Watt (AC) inverter. This is oversized by 21% so well within the rules and as described above, it actually makes outstanding use of the capacity and avoids any wastage. However, in perfect solar conditions for small periods of time this can lead to "clipping" where (for example) the panel wants to produce more energy but is limited by the inverter.
Several customers have asked about the amount and value of lost energy due to clipping in overclocked systems like this and there are two versions of the simple answer. Firstly, although you may lose some energy when and if you clip, it will be for a short duration. As the great guys from AC Solar Warehouse wrote in a paper on the topic recently,the value of that energy (assuming it was offsetting at 30c kWh is about "29.6c per solar panel per year", or $2.96 per year on a 10 panel system.
So, what you may lose at the peak, you will gain on the fringes and in inclement or overcast weather you can potentially gain even more because the peaks solar outputs are lower.
All up, the summary comes down to this – overclocking, when done intelligently and with the right equipment will in all likelihood increase or at worst equal the energy from a system that is not overclocked.
Nigel is one of the foremost solar energy analysts in Australia, having worked in the industry for over two decades.
A factor that I have not seen mentioned in the discussions on "overclocking" is the limit the energy companies put on the size of your inverter. My supplier (Origin) now puts a 5kw limit on the inverter for single phase supplies. This adds an additional incentive to overclock. The discussions also don't seem to talk much about winter and cloudy days, when the output from the solar panels may be substantially reduced. I have had a 3kw system for 6 years, which I now want to upgrade, and I would happily overclock my proposed new 5kw system with 10kw of panels if I could. However, I appreciate the heat and inverter life issue and I read there is some regulatory limit to 30% overclocking. What we need is some type of switch that automatically disconnects sets of panels from the inverer when the total panel input becomes too high.
That's certainly a good point, which we will keep in mind for future updates of this article as well as others.
By the way, the limit is not likely to be set by your 'supplier' (in this case, Origin – who are a retailer), but rather the local network. We've just published an article on the topic here.
My question is, firstly the solar panels seem to be half what the inverter can handle? Not sure I'm correct about that?
If that is the case, do the batteries have sufficient storage for the 1980w solar panels or the 4KW inverter?
That's a tricky, technical question for us to answer, as the installer/system designer might be looking at the batteries as part of what's going to be fed into the inverter/charger during times of peak demand. Is it an off-grid system?
I DON't believe in most cases over sizing the inverter is the best option, due to the cost of going up in size of the string inverter is so cheap. An example is an SMA sunnyboy, the next size up is about $100 for an extra kw. If you make an extra 2 kw a day from not "clipping" the lost kw produced, and you're paying 10 cents a kw, that's $6 a month, or 16 months is the break even.
As you know I've been involved in the manufacturing of many thousands of inverters for over 25 years.
While your points are vary true, what we see as inverters age and eventually fail, one of the main causes of short life is heat. By installing the inverter in hot areas without proper airflow and/or over driving the inverter with extra solar modules, lnverter life is usually compromised.
These days with low inverter prices spending just a little bit more on slightly larger inverter and having it run much cooler in our experience it will last much longer and may even run more efficiently.


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The Family of late Mr Godstime Akugbo allegedly killed by the police, on Tuesday, pleaded with the Rivers Judicial Commission of Inquiry to prevail on the police authorities to release his corpse for a befitting burial.
Mr Michael Akugbo, the elder brother of the deceased, on behalf of the family, made the appeal and also demanded for compensation of N50 million at a sitting of the Commission in Port Harcourt.
"We want the panel to help us compel the Nigeria Police to release the corpse of our late brother and son to us. We also want the perpetrators of this heinous crime against my brother to be brought to justice.
"We also want the Nigeria Police to pay us compensation of N50 million for his death,"Akugbo said.
The News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) recalls that Gov. Nyesom Wike, of Rivers State set up the commission to probe the alleged acts of violence, torture, brutality, murder and violation of fundamental rights of citizens committed by officers of the Nigeria Police Force in the state.
Mr Godstime Akugbo was arrested by men of the Anti-Kidnapping Unit of the Nigeria Police on Oct. 27, for alleged possession of Indian Hemp in Port Harcourt.
NAN reports that the seven-man panel, led by Justice Chukwunenye Uriri (Rtd), which was inaugurated on Nov. 24, is expected to conclude its public sitting on Dec. 30.(NAN)
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Great article Russell. I have come into contact with the merchant account reps and from what I gather, based on your article, is that it's not that they are saving you money, but more like offering you customer service. Is that what you should be looking for when dealing with these reps?
Hi B, thanks for your great question! Rates & service are the two biggest things that are such variables in this industry. The question is, which is more elusive??? 😉 I always focus on both but when you encounter other reps it is hard to decipher whether they are spinning a great sounding story or actually have your best interests in mind. This industry has such a bad name because unfortunately the former has been true far too often. I believe in full disclosure and that is what I focus on in my articles. I believe that this way I will attract people who don't want to be deceived any longer and can finally find a home with me where they don't have to guess as to whether they are getting a fair shake and they get the service they are looking for.
Truth in advertising – too bad they don't have "including 1/2 truths in advertising" . I am glad to read your response to B's comments – full disclosure and no more deception. I believe that this attitude will get you much further along in business than the 1/2 truths.


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December 8, 2003 Issue
How we miss Martha Gellhorn, and how we need her right now!
By Neal Ascherson
How we miss Martha Gellhorn, and how we need her right now! It's hard to believe that she isn't at this moment striding down dangerous streets in Falluja or Najaf or Baghdad, eyes narrowed, looking as great in her slacks as she looked in the Saks Fifth Avenue pants in which she covered the Spanish Civil War. Hard to believe that we won't read her on Iraq, as we read her on Spain, the last world war, Vietnam, Panama. She imagined editors asking: "Who is this tall, fierce, irritable, impatient, sunburned, driven woman?" She never imagined readers asking: "How could that tall, driven woman, who had more irritable life in her than ten ordinary humans plugged together, be dead?"
And yet, five years since she decided to end that life with a pill in her ninetieth year, Martha Gellhorn deserves better than sainthood. She was the best reporter of war to write in English for the past sixty years–war, that is, as something experienced by ordinary people and soldiers, rather than as "combat" and arrows on a map. But it would be unsafe to predict which line she would take on the general rightness or wrongness of a war or a policy. As a phenomenon, Gellhorn was utterly consistent. To take one typical example from Caroline Moorehead's biography, another American journalist in Vietnam found her "gorgeous, clear-eyed with the facts straight as rulers"; he loved her "shirty nonchalance." She was always like that in public. But she was not always consistent about her causes.
In truth, I am not sure how she would have stood on the Iraq war. A big factor would certainly have been detestation of George W. Bush and the global military arrogance of the Rumsfeld clique in the Pentagon, repeating all the crimes for which Gellhorn had belabored Nixon, Kissinger and Reagan. On the other hand, she switched off her sympathy when it came to the sufferings of Arabs. She was entirely committed to the cause of Israel (to the point of applauding the 1982 invasion of Lebanon), remained deaf to the Palestinian case and might well have decided that the most unscrupulous power politics were justified in order to rid the world of Saddam Hussein. It's a thought–a speculation–that will upset many of those who loved her, and who as reporters try to live up to her fighting spirit and hunger for justice. But Martha Gellhorn was not bankable, not somebody who could be signed up to a cause in advance. What counted with her was the people she met on the ground, in the field, and how she felt about them.
This is a masterpiece of biography. Caroline Moorehead, a professional in that literary trade, knew exactly how to organize, select and use the treasure of Martha Gellhorn's letters, preserved in their thousands at Boston University and in the archives of her friends. Born in 1908 in St. Louis, Gellhorn grew up in a letter-writing world and used letters, perhaps even more than personal contact, to maintain intense conversations with a small circle of friends, lovers and ex-lovers, and family members. Almost everything Moorehead has set down about Gelhorn's private life comes from this marvelous, revealing correspondence. So do most of the best lines about Gellhorn herself. "I revere courage," she wrote to her old teacher Hortense Flexner. "Perhaps I make it God, and endow it with every other quality, as stemming from it." Or, remembering her sight of Dachau in 1945, "I have never again felt that lovely, easy, lively hope in life which I knew before, not in life, not in our species, not in our future on earth."
Gellhorn's father was a doctor, a German immigrant, and her mother was a campaigner for women's suffrage. Both were half-Jewish, a fact that appears to have counted for nothing in the family, and Martha was brought up in an almost-Presbyterian atmosphere of busy, book-nourished but practical idealism. All her life, her mother, Edna, remained her daughter's "true north," as she put it, and it was indirectly through her that Martha found her way to Franklin Roosevelt's White House as a young "poverty investigator" for Harry Hopkins. Here began her political radicalism, her lifelong friendship with Eleanor Roosevelt and, in effect, her career as a writer. The Trouble I've Seen (1935), her stories about the Depression, was the first of her books to make an impact.
By then, Martha had already sown some spectacular wild oats in Europe. In Paris, she had begun an affair with the young Bertrand de Jouvenel (fresh from the bed of his stepmother Colette and himself already married), had worked as a model and a journalist, and had witnessed the great riot of February 6, 1934, when the French ultra-right attempted to take the National Assembly by storm. She had also visited Nazi Germany with the oddly naïve Bertrand and a band of pro-German French intellectuals, some of whom ended before Gaullist firing squads after the Liberation. So it was no 27-year-old innocent who walked into a Key West bar with her mother in December 1935 and found "a large dirty man in untidy somewhat soiled white shorts" reading his mail.
Gellhorn stayed with Ernest Hemingway for nearly nine years, four of them married to him. All the grim details are here ("a man must be a very great genius to make up for being such a loathsome human being," Martha wrote to her mother afterward), but Moorehead is shrewd enough to discount for hindsight after a failed marriage, and much of the fun and laughter they had together figures, too. She made the famous home in Cuba for him, watched over him as he wrote For Whom the Bell Tolls and learned a lot about writing. He was a better novelist than she was, but Gellhorn's reporting–both from their time in Spain during the Civil War and during the world war that followed–is incomparably better than Hemingway's.
Besieged Madrid, like besieged Sarajevo in the 1990s and maybe London under the bombs in the 1940s, was a place that changed lives irrevocably. Gellhorn would always be grateful that she had "been young and there, at that time; I think we got something out of history that is more than anyone has a decent right to hope for." The commandment to fight and warn against fascism, and the memory of dead friends, possessed her. She learned much about the treachery and cowardice of politicians. She also learned that what mattered, for her, was to "be there." That lesson, and the increasing awfulness of life with Hemingway in Cuba, brought her back to Europe during the war. Forbidden as a woman to go into action as a war correspondent, she stowed away on a freighter and reached Omaha Beach on the second day of the invasion. Arrested and escorted back to England, she stowed away again on an aircraft to Italy and followed the battle lines from Salerno through Cassino to the Gothic line with a troop of Polish lancers. Another hitched ride on a plane took her to Paris, just after the Liberation, and from Paris she advanced with British and American divisions through Belgium into Germany itself.
She was writing articles all the time. The best of them, going back to her time in Spain, were finally published in 1959 in The Face of War. If these stories have a common element, it is brotherhood, the brave, generous, often merry companionship of young men and women who might not survive the day. In old age, she missed the "helpless laughter among chums who were glad to be alive because they knew about death." Groups like that–sometimes soldiers, often journalists–became Martha Gellhorn's real family. She did not want to be with them all the time, but it was in their midst that she found reassurance, laughter and some true friends (like Robert Capa, the photographer).
At times, this part of her life reads like a movie. During the Ardennes battles, soldiers of the 82nd Airborne Division caught this tall blonde striding about the snow with no accreditation or uniform and took her to their headquarters. Martha and Gen. James Gavin, youngest divisional commander in the US Army, fell for each other like a ton of bricks. The romance blazed in liberated Paris, then in the ruins of Berlin, until Marlene Dietrich, mad with jealousy, spread venomous rumors about Gellhorn and made off with General Gavin for her own night of passion. And so forth, and all true. But Martha Gellhorn, although she was fascinated by men and fell in love with a good many of them, was not made to satisfy male expectations.
Hemingway was not the first or the last man to love her for her independence, that "vitality, certainty, [and] total courage," but to resent her when she behaved independently. She was always off somewhere; she could not stand male self-pity; she grew bored even with her comfortable second marriage to the rich and at first undemanding Tom Matthews. Sexual satisfaction eluded her until she was middle-aged, and even then sex remained a domain where she felt uncharacteristically anxious and inadequate. Friendships with both men and women were her real emotional anchor. Moorehead describes well how in her last years, fighting heroically to stay fit and elegant, she gathered around her in London a troop of "chaps"–mostly much younger journalists and writers who gathered in her flat to drink whiskey and tell her their stories. They found her, in the words of an American acquaintance half a century before, a "barrel of fun and sharp as a tack." Her best nonfiction was republished at this time, and her quality as a writer, for so long obscured by routine association with Hemingway, was recognized at last. To her own ironic surprise, Martha Gellhorn ended up as a cult.
On her own after the war, she made homes in Mexico, perhaps her happiest for a few years, and later in Kenya. In postwar Italy, she decided to adopt a child and after whirling through fifty-two different orphanages, found a baby boy she wanted. "I sure waited a hell of a time to fall fatally in love," she said. But it was not an easy relationship. After a blissful babyhood in Mexico, Sandy was parked in bleak schools and homes while Gellhorn traveled restlessly up and down the world; he became an insecure, unhappy boy who brought out all her intolerance of weakness in others. "You have absolutely no style, your mind is as interesting as blotting paper," she once wrote to him. There was a long estrangement, only bridged in her old age.
She was an angry person, often magnificently and entertainingly angry, but sometimes shockingly unfair. What she saw in Dachau broke something in her, and she came to fear that the human race was a scorpion intent on stinging itself to death. After the McCarthy persecutions, and especially after her return from Vietnam, she grew increasingly certain that American imperial power in the world was a force of evil and a source of mass misery: Reagan became one of her archvillains, soon joined by Mrs. Thatcher in Britain. There were times when she felt that all her battles and travels had achieved nothing: "I might as well have stayed in bed reading thrillers." But at other moments that old "shirty nonchalance" showed through. Two years before she died, at a journalists' roundtable in London, she let her well-hidden pride in her life gleam for an instant. "It seemed to me personally that it was my job to get things on the record, in the hopes that at some point or other, somebody couldn't absolutely lie about it."
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And it has no impact on IP-rated water resistance
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As the Pixel 5 starts to make its way into customers' hands, we've received several reports of a gap between the screen's plastic bumper and the bioresin-coated aluminum frame of the phone. Reports vary, but the area around the front-facing camera appears to be a hotspot for the problem. Although customers were concerned this gap could affect the phone's IP-rated water resistance, a representative on Google's support forums claims its 'a normal part of the design' and has no impact on water and dust resistance or functionality.
Images from Pixel Phone product forum and XDA Forum.
The volume of reports isn't especially large by itself, but we have to assume the limited number of Pixel 5 units in the wild has something to do with that, and the number of new reports is increasing at a consistent rate. Complaints have picked up over the last couple weeks at Pixel Phone product forum and XDA Forum, with plenty of photos showing off not just the gap itself, but how much it can vary in location and prominence between units.
AP's Pixel 5 is only slightly affected, many other devices have it worse.
We can confirm that our own Pixel 5 review unit is also affected, though to a lesser degree than some of those pictured above. Most reports show it in the corner closest to the display's camera cutout, along the top of the phone, and above the SIM tray on the left side, but it may also appear in other areas as well. Though most images demonstrate the problem in the Just Black colorway (probably because it's most visible with the stronger contrast), it also affects the Sage Green color. Based on reports, these gaps are present from the start, so the screen doesn't appear to be separating over time.
We didn't originally know if this gap would have an effect on the phone's IP rating, but a representative took to the product forums yesterday, explaining that this gap is normal and won't impact water or dust ingress protection. The full explanation provided is just below:
Hi Pixel Community,
We've had a chance to investigate units from customers and, combined with our quality control data from the factory, we can confirm that the variation in the clearance between the body and the display is a normal part of the design of your Pixel 5. There is no effect on the water and dust resistance or functionality of your phone. We will work with customers on an individual basis to address any concerns they may have.
While the issue might be a little unsightly for those with an eye to such details, at least affected devices don't suffer any non-aesthetic harm from the gap, and most cases with a lip around the display should easily hide it.
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Ijtihād (árabe: اِجْتِهاد, translit. ijtihād, "esforço de reflexão") designa o esforço de reflexão que os ulemas ou muftis e os juristas muçulmanos empreendem para interpretar os textos fundadores do Islã (o Corão e a Sunnah) e deles deduzir o direito islâmico ou  informar o fiel sobre a  natureza de uma ação (se é lícita, ilícita, reprovável, etc.). Desde o século X, somente os xiitas reconhecem e praticam o ijtihad, enquanto o sunismo pratica o taqlid ou "imitação".

Mujtahid (árabe: مُجْتَهِد, aplicado, diligente) é aquele que realiza esse esforço de reflexão do ijtihād.

Referências
 Wael Hallaq (1984) "Was the Gate of Ijtihad Closed?"; International Journal of Middle East Studies 16 (1): 3-41.

Ver também
Alquindi
Averroes
Avicena
ibne Caldune
Muhammad Abduh

Direito islâmico
Xiismo

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A gunman ambushed two detectives on Tuesday night in Camden, opening fire as they sat in their vehicle at a red light on National Night Out, an event that brings together local police and communities.
Two male suspects started shooting at the plainclothes detectives in their unmarked vehicle about 8:30 p.m. at Broadway and Walnut streets in downtown Camden, authorities said. One of the detectives returned fire.
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Camden County Police Chief J. Scott Thomson told reporters on Tuesday night that between 10 and 25 rounds were fired at the detectives.
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Ashurst has advised Iluka Resources Limited (Iluka) on its $375 million acquisition of Sierra Rutile Limited (SRL), a company incorporated in the British Virgin Islands.
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"We have enjoyed a longstanding relationship with Iluka, and are thrilled to have advised in relation to this significant transaction. This represents a major milestone in Iluka's continuing strength as a leading producer of mineral sands," said Ashurst lead partner Roger Davies.
The Ashurst team included senior associates Stuart Dullard and Themo Georgiou, with lawyer Rowan Krasnoff (Corporate Transactions Australia); partners Michael Robins and Nick Williamson, associates Harry Thimont, Andrew McLaren and Campbell Johnston, with solicitor Annie Morrin (Corporate London); partner Bill Reid and counsel Alyssa Phillips (Competition Australia); partner Ute Zinsmeister, senior associate Maria Held and associate Franziska Sauer (Competition Germany); partner Jamie Ng and counsel Joseph Chow (Finance Australia); partner Angela Pearson, senior associate Myfanwy Wood and solicitor Louise Youngman (Disputes London, advising on ABC and the bilateral investment treaty).
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The Death Knell of Confederate Heritage
Published: April 16, 2015 69 comments
Despite Politico's recent claim that "the Confederacy Still Lives" it is, in fact, in full retreat. Confederate flags are being removed from public places and holidays honoring Confederate generals are being revised or removed from the calendars. It is a process that will continue as each new generation moves further away from the history itself and is able to re-assess its legacy.
That is exactly what is happening this week in Texas surrounding a proposal to re-name and move 'Confederate Heroes Day.' The proposal is the work of an Austin eighth grader by the name of Jacob Hale. Hale believes that the current holiday does an injustice to his states unionists. He proposes to re-name the holiday to 'Civil War Remembrance Day' and move it to May.
The meeting yesterday brought plenty of people who spoke out against the change. One of them was Texas Division Commander of the Sons of Confederate Veterans, Johnnie Holley.
The state of Texas voted to secede from the Union, so any man from Texas who went to fight for the Union was a traitor to his country. So as a Texan I don't want to honor someone who came and fought against the state of Texas.
I appreciate Holley's honesty, but I would suggest that such a view is part of the problem for Confederate heritage advocates. It's a losing argument in 2015.
Jacob Hale is not an aberration. His understanding of the war fits comfortably within the generations raised in post-civil rights America. Of course, we will continue to witness bitter debates about how we remember and commemorate the Confederacy, but its place in Southern memory will never again enjoy the level of acceptance it once did.
Young Jacob Hale is doing nothing less than hammering in the nails of its coffin.
Andy Hall Apr 16, 2015 @ 6:12
The Houston Press has a story on Hale's effort, as well:
http://blogs.houstonpress.com/news/2015/04/confederacy_buffs_fight_to_keep_confederate_heroes_day_in_texas.php
According to that article, the holiday in Texas only dates back to 1973, so (like so much else) it's not something that has been handed down by Confederate veterans, through the sacred mists of time.
Interesting quote from the piece:
Rudy Roy, a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans from Palestine, Texas, told lawmakers that political correctness was threatening to scrub history. "If we start trying to change the historical record for political reasons, we do great damage to our heritage," he told the committee, before loudly declaring, "We were not a Yankee state!"
You see this argument again and again and again — that altering or removing a public display of reverence for the Confederacy is "changing the historical record" or "erasing history." It says a great deal about how superficial these folks' understanding of history and the historical record is, that it's supposedly measured by the number of monuments or flags on public display. I wish someone on the committee would've asked Mr. Roy exactly what part of the historical record would disappear if the holiday were changed.
Kevin Levin Apr 16, 2015 @ 6:17
It's an inability to differentiate between history and what kind of narrative a community wishes to tell about that history. The SCV can't comprehend that distinction because their preferred memory is the history.
Robert Moore Apr 16, 2015 @ 6:21
I think it signals the death knell of a current trend in what is labeled as "Confederate Heritage", being the way that it's currently defined by the loudest advocates (a smaller group than the voice being projected, I might add) of a certain path of "commemoration", if not even "celebration". I've always wondered what it might be like if an "advocate" of heritage might acknowledge personal (or, even better… group) understanding that slavery was a core reason for many who supported (and made possible) the Confederacy, though, at the same time, demonstrating an educated understanding that there WERE also those who were not advocates of slavery, but true believers (at that time) of "States' Rights" in the "defense of hearth and home" sense. Of course, that certainly compromises "Confederate heritage" as it's being portrayed by the current "loud crowd". I think the individual experience endured by the Confederate soldier can be appreciated in a commemorative manner, but "the cause", being fed by so many different perspectives that did not necessarily see eye-to-eye, makes for a (obviously) much more complicated element in "commemoration", and pushes more strongly for a need to educate… but not in the way that the current crowd understands "education"… if that makes sense.
Thanks for the comment, Robert. It seems to me that this eighth grader's understanding of Confederate heritage is a huge step in the right direction. He does not call for the end of commemorations that acknowledge the experiences of the Confederate soldier. What he appears to want is for a broader acknowledgment of the broad range of his fellow Texans who experienced the war.
The SCV's public statements to the contrary are a huge problem for those people who wish to commemorate a Confederate past. Individuals and organizations can engage in a wide range of acts of commemoration of their ancestors. What they are having more and more difficulty with is in framing the service of that ancestor in a cause that was beneficial to this country. In other words, the Confederacy lost and we can all be thankful for it regardless of who your great-great grandfather happens to be.
"It seems to me that this eighth grader's understanding of Confederate heritage is a huge step in the right direction. He does not call for the end of commemorations that acknowledge the experiences of the Confederate soldier. What he appears to want is for a broader acknowledgment of the broad range of his fellow Texans who experienced the war."
Exactly… and the very thing I had in mind when I posted so much about the broader range of sentiments found in the Shenandoah Valley. Confederates are still part of that broader commemoration.
"The SCV's public statements to the contrary are a huge problem for those people who wish to commemorate a Confederate past."
Again, I agree, and, in fact, not all of the SCV are participants in the "loud crowd". I just wish those who continue to hold membership, yet understand that there were different people with different agendas in the Confederacy, would get a larger voice. I just doubt seriously that it will ever happen.
As I've said time and time again… I don't need to carry Confederate flags and march in parades to "commemorate" my Confederate ancestors. Rather, I look at it as a more silent contemplation of their individual places within the bigger picture. Then again, blogging about that mindful consideration isn't necessarily silent, but "demonstrating" on a different level (and with a more educated… call it "nuanced", I suppose… understanding).
You have always been my poster-boy for Confederate heritage. 🙂
In all seriousness, I would love to hear what you think is involved in moving from the position of the commander of the Texas SCV to a more nuanced understanding like yours. I am looking for something beyond the acknowledgment of a rich family heritage that encompasses multiple and often conflicting narratives. What are the intellectual moves that must be made? There is an essay in here and you should write it.
"I would love to hear what you think is involved in moving from the position of the commander of the Texas SCV to a more nuanced understanding like yours."
Some of these folks just won't budge… and despite what some might think, it's not a matter of convincing them to think like me, per se… but to just be more open-minded and to demonstrate the same through what they say. I'd suggest that, in most cases, acknowledging the slave issue doesn't compromise the legacy of the common dirt farmer turned Confederate soldier… or (as in the case of some research I'm doing right now on an Episcopal bishop from that time) even the story of well-to-do Southerners who started off Unionist and flipped to the Confederacy (it's all a matter of studying individuals within the larger picture, of course). As all "is written" at this time in organizations such as the SCV, however, openly acknowdging that complicated "for slavery" aspect in various Southerners stands to crumble a core belief system of the organization.
Harold Summers. Apr 17, 2015 @ 16:12
who was your great grand father,Mr.Kline.?obviously not a between of the civil war.the north lost more men than the South.How can a 13 year old appreciate any realities of the civil war.He doesn't even have a fully developed brain.The war was a politically motivated war bent on the reputation of Lincoln,Grant and Sherman.Two of which were mad men.So the Yankees can't claim that they won with such losses as they incurred.Nobody won.When a country losses 650,000 men. That's not a victory. That's madness.So you can remove all the Southern,Confederate holidays you want young 8th grader.But history will never eradicate the facts.
Jimmy Dick Apr 17, 2015 @ 17:08
Well, since the kid is using facts I would say the only thing that got eradicated was the lost cause myth, and since he is only 13 we should have some high expectations for him should he decide to focus his studies on history.
When a country loses 650,000 men that's not a victory. That's madness. There is some truth to that. It was madness for a group of slave owners to break the laws of the United States and start a war like they did. It was madness for the people that chose to follow those madmen in turning against their own country to fight. It was madness to wage a long war that resulted in the destruction of the South and the very institution those slave owners chose to go crazy over.
Yet, they did it and got a lot of people killed. Unfortunately we have people who choose to ignore the facts and insist in glorifying those madmen while ignoring what the war was about.
Kevin Levin Apr 17, 2015 @ 17:38
For someone who is criticizing a 13 year old, you certainly haven't offered anything here that even approaches a mature understanding of this history.
Jerry McKenzie Apr 20, 2015 @ 8:27
Grant and Sherman were nonentities at the beginning of the war and Lincoln not even sworn in when succession began. Seems to me it was politically motivated by Southern madmen instead.
The North lost because they lost more men? Napoleon's First Empire should still be around then too. The South lost politically, diplomatically, militarily, and economically. They did manage to claw back the racism part during Reconstruction though.
Brad Sharp Mar 5, 2017 @ 18:35
Bad news for you. The results of the civil war were reversed Nov 8, 2016.
Don Webbalabamaindependent Jul 23, 2015 @ 14:35
As a descendent of Confederate soldiers, I resent this move to slowly remove remembrance and commemoration of those who, in the context of the times in which they lived and honestly held opinions, did what they believed was right. Sure, there were varied reasons by some for why they supported Southern Independence. Just as there were varied reasons by some for why they supported Independence of the Colonies from the English Government. If the Confederates were wrong, then the Revolutionaries of 1776 were also wrong. You can't have it both ways.
The US was about to breach its agreement pertaining to slavery with Southern states in 1860. The overreach of the northeast states coupled with their lack of integrity forced the rebellion. The results of the war were reversed Nov 8, 2016. No more overreach. The South won the war and all hell is breaking loose.
Jimmy Dick Mar 6, 2017 @ 12:46
Better start learning some history to back up the claim there. Looks to me like the primary sources show the Confederacy losing and slavery ending. As for today, Trump's election didn't do anything but establish who the next president of the US would be. The Confederacy and the slavery it stood for are still dead.
Jimmy Dick Apr 16, 2015 @ 6:40
Good points, Robert. The slavery issue is one of the main sticking points for the heritage crew. If they acknowledge that slavery was the cause of the civil war then they have to admit that while the individuals soldiers fought for a multitude of reasons, one of them was to have the right to own human beings. At that point their facade crumbles and the rest of the actual history falls into place in a way that they would prefer to ignore.
Just look at the reenactments throughout the sesquicentennial. The heritage crew was quite happy to denote them right up to 2014 when the war turned against the confederacy. At that point all of a sudden the heritage crew quit talking about glorious southern victories and just whined about other things. Now we see the end of the CW, the death of Lincoln, and the heritage crew is in hiding.
What did the heritage crews accomplish in the last four years? They raised a few flags, tried to boycott a town and even broke their own boycott in the process, and waved some flags. They changed no opinions and no one's minds. They failed utterly to accomplish what they set out to do. The only thing they can do is whine loudly, but really no one notices them.
Instead, the NPS and thousands of historians used the sesqui to educate people on the conflict. They succeeded quite well. I can only hope we continue in this vein as we explore Reconstruction over the next 12 years.
If they acknowledge that slavery was the cause of the civil war then they have to admit that while the individuals soldiers fought for a multitude of reasons, one of them was to have the right to own human beings.
The problem is that some of these men did not fight (for personal reasons) to own human beings. What do you do about men who were drafted? The way to lay it out is to say that regardless of whether they volunteered or were drafted and regardless of their personal reasons they served in an army that functioned as the military arm of a government that was formed to protect and expand slavery.
"one of them was to have the right to own human beings"
Agreed, Jimmy… and I suspect that's something you won't see acknowledged in SCV dialogue in print.
Kevin, but even if there were some who were drafted, there were also those who volunteered who were not "slave-minded". Furthermore, I found it fascinating that there were soldiers who actually abhored the treatment of slaves and demonstrated an understanding (in writing, no less) of the moral problems with sustaining slavery, yet were early war volunteers… even civilians who eventually sided with the Confederacy with the same thinking in their minds. Surely they knew that victory for the Confederacy would sustain the slave system, yet, it's almost as if that could be set aside for the time because they saw a larger crisis in the military threat of Federal troops being sent into the South. It's a difficult thing for us to reflect on, but I suspect, for some, it may have been just as difficult for them to reconcile with… picking the larger situation to deal with at the time. I'm not justifying… it's just a reflection made.
Kevin, but even if there were some who were drafted, there were also those who volunteered who were not "slave-minded".
Surely they knew that victory for the Confederacy would sustain the slave system, yet, it's almost as if that could be set aside for the time because they saw a larger crisis in the military threat of Federal troops being sent into the South.
Again, I agree
The problem as I see it with many Confederate heritage folks today is the way they jump from what they believe their great-great grandfather fought for to what the Confederacy was fighting for. That is a fundamental mistake.
"That is a fundamental mistake."
Yup… and it comes full circle… the doubt, considering the current trend, that this depth of understanding will be acknowledged as the more "full package", vice the "it wasn't about slavery" generalization, thrown like a blanket across the whole.
Every one of the CSA soldiers knew that one of the things they were fighting for was the right to own other human beings. They personally may have disagreed with that, but even so that was one of the things they were fighting for as a soldier in that army. We can rephrase it like you did or just say they fought for others to own slaves. It still ends up being the same.
Had the Confederacy won the war slavery would have continued to exist due to the efforts of the men who fought for the CSA. The heritage crew wants to obscure this important point just like they obscure all aspects of slavery. Just look at what Connie says about it. They know what the deal is. In order for them to move on they have to reconcile how slavery existed in the South and its role in the conflict. Until they can do that, they will always be stuck at square one.
Every one of the CSA soldiers knew that one of the things they were fighting for was the right to own other human beings.
How do you propose to prove this claim? I don't claim to know what every Confederate soldier knew or didn't know.
How do you propose to deny it? I obviously cannot read minds, but we have to remember that was a different time period where owning slaves was the norm. We know from the primary sources what was said by many about slavery. So those men had to know that if they won, slavery would survive. That's an obvious fact.
Robert is doing a good job explaining this as well. They may not have been fighting for their own desire to own slaves. They may have been coerced, shamed, drafted, or whatever into the military, but they were there. They could see slaves around them doing what slaves did in the south. It was part of their lives and their culture. They were fighting to preserve that life and that culture.
Regardless of what they said, slavery was something that was going to continue to exist if they won. I do not think it requires any imagination to say those men understood that. At the simplest of all levels they knew that winning meant things would stay the same and losing meant things would change. For them that involved the issue of slavery.
So those men had to know that if they won, slavery would survive. That's an obvious fact.
That's not what you said in the previous comment.
This implies motivation and I am simply saying that you cannot know this to be true. Of course, they understood the consequences of defeat, but that still doesn't get us to your claim as I understood it.
It was implicit in the cause they were fighting for. If they won they could own other human beings whether they wanted to or not. It did not matter if they agreed with the goal or not. All of the confederate soldiers knew that slavery was one of the reasons they were fighting.
I don't see how you can sustain the final point in your comment regardless of how many times you repeat it.
I don't see how you can possibly reject it based upon the primary sources that describe the world they knew.
I don't see how that constitutes anything that resembles an argument. This is the claim you made.
Every one of the CSA soldiers knew that one of the things they were fighting for was the right to own other human beings
This is a claim about motivation, which I believe is untenable. Certainly white Southerners understood the importance of slavery and many Confederates openly shared that its preservation was, in some way, a factor in their personal motivation. I just don't see how you can make a universal claim along these lines.
Looks like you and I are just going to have to disagree on this issue.
Jimmy, while they may have been aware that Confederate victory meant the preservation of slavery, I suggest it was just a minor point in the back of the minds of an undeterminable number who fought without (emphasis on without) slavery as a motivating factor. Furthermore, we all know there are sources out there that show the resentment felt by the dirt-farmer (the non-conscripted dirt farmers as well as the conscripted) turned soldier toward the wealthy slaveholders. I actually wonder how many upper South (and those from the lower South as well) Confederate soldiers left the ranks before 1864 and after '64, who may have felt the preservation of slavery was more important to those in high places, overall, than that which seemed, at the time, the final straw that pushed upper South toward secession. In fact, I've identified a few in my neck of the woods, in the Shenandoah Valley.
The problem with Jimmy's generalization is that it leaves no room to focus on local dynamics (down to the street level) that may have influenced men to join and stay in the army. This does not preclude pushing slavery to the sidelines, but it does allow for a closer appreciation of motivation on an individual/family/community level.
The generalization stands because those men knew that their actions were protective of slavery. Even if they disagreed with slavery, they knew that fighting for the confederacy meant to protect slavery.
Kevin, at no time did I say they enlisted to protect slavery. Now you're starting to slide into a different area as to why they fought. I've been over this before. Regardless of why they chose to fight (coercion was also possible via the draft) they knew that slavery was being protected by their actions.
The generalization stands. We can make a generalization about the Union troops by 1865 too can't we? Whether they liked the idea or not, by 1865 they knew that they were fighting to end slavery. That generalization does not mean they enlisted to end slavery or that they were not racists. It is just a broad generalization that fits what was occurring.
Al Mackey Apr 16, 2015 @ 12:45
I think Jimmy is referring to James McPherson's book, For Cause and Comrades, in which he concludes that confederate soldiers accepted that because they were fighting for the confederacy, then the protection of slavery was one of the rights for which they were fighting. He based that conclusion on his sample of letters and diaries of confederate soldiers, saying that while 20% of the sample specifically said they were fighting for slavery, none of the soldiers in his sample said the opposite. Certainly I agree we can't say it applies to 100% of confederate soldiers, but I think we can safely say that most confederate soldiers understood the issues of the day and understood why there was a confederacy. While slavery may not have motivated all of them, and indeed might not have motivated a majority of them, the majority of them probably accepted, whether reluctantly or not, that because they were fighting for the victory of the confederacy they were therefore fighting for the preservation of slavery whether it actually motivated their enlistment or not.
I don't think he was making a connection to McPherson's study because at no point does he make such a claim. I simply took issue with the way his generalization was formulated, which I believe cannot be proven. Certainly, most Confederate soldiers understood that whatever they were fighting for had some connection to the maintenance of slavery. Such a claim is different from suggesting that every soldier was motivated by x.
I did not make a connection to McPherson's book because I have not read it as of yet.
That is a true statement. It does not matter if they agreed with the concept or not. They knew they were supporting slavery by fighting for the confederacy. That was their world. It was what they knew. The secession conventions were full of slavery rhetoric. Secession occurred because of slavery. The newspapers were full of slavery talk as well. It was the topic of the day.
They flat out knew they were fighting for slavery. I do not see how you can reject the statement, Kevin. Yes, it is a generalization, but it is one that rings true. You can look north and see a fight over slavery developing even though that was not why the men went to war at first. However, by the end of the conflict it was crystal clear that they were fighting to end slavery even if they didn't personally care one way or the other about it.
I dislike generalizations as a rule of thumb, but there are times when a generalization is correct.
Al makes the point with his last sentence. That's a generalization that is correct in my opinion.
This is simply not how I go about thinking or researching about Confederate soldiers. If it works for you than so be it.
Don Webb Jul 23, 2015 @ 14:50
"Regardless of what they said, slavery was something that was going to continue to exist if they won."
I have to respectively disagree with you on this statement. The institution of slavery was expensive, and the industrial age would eventually have caught up with it and brought about its demise. The end of Slavery resulted in the former slaves and the poor white farmers becoming victims of another form of slavery – Sharecropping.
Kevin Levin Jul 23, 2015 @ 14:52
All of the evidence suggests otherwise. Slavery fit easily into a growing industrial economy in the United States by the Civil War. I suggest reading Edward Baptist's new book, _The Half Has Never Been Told_ and John Majewski's _Modernizing a Slave Economy_.
… and as I said on your Facebook extension… hat's off to Hale. It's something I mentioned years back in a post, as a possible broader audience-capturing appreciation… and alternative to Confederate History Month in Virginia.
It might actually be a good thing if changing the holiday made large parts of the historical record vanish; I could use more bookshelf space.
A. Jackson Apr 16, 2015 @ 6:29
I am amazed at the defense of slavery on-line at the Civil War Trust website. My "favorite" is how the cotton gin doomed slavery, when it was just the opposite. After that was cleared up it was "should have given the steam powered tractor a chance", and, if not that, the gasoline powdered tractor. I am not sure how many technological chances these folks are prepared to give…Never once have I read an acknowledgement from the pro-Confederates on that thread that slavery was an evil cancer on the soul of America. If slavery is acknowledged as a negative, it is always on the fact that there were enslaved people in the north , as in "two wrongs make a right.."
Can you provide a link?
It is on the Facebook page of the organization Civil War Trust. I tried to do a link with my Kindle but it wouldn't cooperate. Sorry! Several posts had to be removed because the authors were posting about their glee over Lincoln's death.
That's part of the problem. As long as people continue to think secession was constitutional they will make this mistake. It was not constitutional and it is still not constitutional. I wonder what he thought secession was about. I'm sure he will ignore the facts and state something besides slavery. So then two important facts would be overlooked.
The result is the statement which misses reality. Those who seceded were traitors to the United States of America. Until the SCV gets this into their heads, they will continue to be a pretty useless group of people who pass off lies instead of the truth regarding the Civil War.
On the Facebook page I cited there were several comments about how the Constitution provides for secession…which, of course, it doesn't. A member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy stated something about how not all history is in books and she knew much of it. I have to say I actually feel sorry for some of these people, as they have been sold a bill of goods, but others seem filled with actual hatred…
Thanks for the clarification. I didn't realize you were talking about a comment thread on a FB page.
Yes, the same Civil War Trust that helps preserve the battlefields. The man who monitors the site told me in a message that they knew they would have a strong reaction from some about their tribute to Lincoln and his death, but even they were unprepared for some of the statements.
alabamaindependent Jul 23, 2015 @ 15:04
"Those who seceded were traitors to the United States of America." Okay, I will agree with you on that PROVIDED you agree that the Revolutionaries of the Colonies were guilty of being traitors to the English Government. You can't have it both ways!
Andy Hall Jul 23, 2015 @ 17:20
I will agree with you on that PROVIDED you agree that the Revolutionaries of the Colonies were guilty of being traitors to the English Government.
I thought that was generally acknowledged. Certainly the British thought so. When Franklin said, "we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately," what did you think he was talking about?
Jimmy Dick Jul 24, 2015 @ 10:00
Notice how people like to bring the Revolution into argument? They seek to legitimize the actions of the secessionists. They try to establish a correlation of the two events, yet avoid why those two events took place. They were two totally different events that occurred for different reasons. They want to avoid the issue of slavery as the cause of the Civil War.
Boyd Harris Apr 16, 2015 @ 7:13
Reading Janney's recent book just after seeing this post and ran across a quote from a Missouri newspaper in 1881. Certain Confederate veteran reunions were a problem for the reporter because they hindered sectional reconciliation, however he hoped that "they will all disappear in time" and that future generations would not be so enamored with the Confederate cause. Just thought that was funny, considering I had just read your post.
Also, in regard to Mr. Holley's comment about "traitors," a pot and kettle come to mind. 🙂
I guess it's taking a little longer than expected. 🙂
Elrod Apr 16, 2015 @ 8:52
It seems the Confederate Heritage activist is either unaware or in denial about the First Texas Cavalry USA. https://tshaonline.org/handbook/online/articles/qlf03
Leo Apr 16, 2015 @ 11:47
Wouldn't "Confederate Heritage" be a part of Civil War Remembrance Day? I don't get what the SCV is complaining about.
The head of the Texas division is very clear about why he objectives to the change. I think you should take him at his word.
Perhaps Black Texans and the descendants of Texas unionists do not want to honor people who fought to take Texas out of the United States.
Johnnie Holley said,
Therefore, by his logic, Sam Houston is a traitor to Texas. …
Mr. Holley needs to reevaluate his logic and start thinking about the big picture.
FMCH Apr 17, 2015 @ 18:31
In my opinion, anyone who supports anything Confederate is a traitor and a seditionist. They value and support an enemy of the United States( yeah yeah it was a long time ago, but you get my drift ). FWIW, I don't see any other countries proudly celebrating enemy armies.
This position is quite naive of the history of various military commanders since the Civil War. You really should consider more carefully how various military leaders in America's more recent past (pick various persons from WW2, for example) thought highly of certain Confederate leaders and embraced various aspects of what they represented as men and combat commanders. The result proves to be quite contrary to your position. It doesn't take a whole lot to prove that Confederate military commanders have ultimately been the inspiration for various US commanders who have been anything but trairos and seditionists.
*… anything but traitors and seditionists.
Ted McKnight Apr 17, 2015 @ 18:37
Interesting observations and discussion. The Texas holiday dates to 1931. In 1973 it combined R. E. Lee and J Davis' birthdays and it is always celebrated on Jan. 19th. I'm guessing that none of the commenters were in the five hour hearing, none are Texans, none have actually read the bill, none know Jacob Hale or Rep Howard. So you don't know the purpose of the bill and you cannot begin to understand the context of the quotes in the article. I leave you with the last quote from my comments to the committee.
"Every record has been destroyed or falsified. Every book rewritten. Every picture has been repainted. Every statute and street building has been renamed. Every date has been altered. And the process is continuing, day by day and minute by minute. History has stopped. Nothing exists except an endless present in which THE PARTY is always right" George Orwell, 1984
Fortunately, we know from using historical sources written by the people alive in 1860/61 why there was a Civil War and what happened. Therefore, we can remove the artificial lost cause history that was put in place by white supremacists and replace it with one that is based upon factual evidence. If some people want to glorify the cause of slavery and the traitors to the United States of America they are free to do so, but their version of history does not involve the use of facts.
Rob in CT Apr 20, 2015 @ 5:51
That Orwell quote is actually much more applicable to the "lost cause"/Dunning School historical narrative of the Civil War. I think it's ironic that you use it in this context.
Leo Apr 19, 2015 @ 4:55
I do not believe we are witnessing the end on Confederate Heritage because heritage is such a vague term. It is also something that resides in the hearts and minds of people and may very well be around as long as there are people alive to give it life. I believe, rather, that we are witnessing the last days of lost cause mythology being played out in the shrill and often illogical behavior of a vocal minority.
I agree. Much of what I am tracking when I make such observations is the celebration of- or narrow focus on Confederate heritage (the Lost Cause) on an institutional level. That has gone through a radical shift throughout the nation, including the South. Groups like the Virginia Flaggers, SCV, and UDC can and will continue to promote their preferred narrative of the past, but it will no longer receive the level of legitimacy that it once did within public institutions, including local and state government.
Hope that helps to clarify my thinking.
Thanks for the clarification and I agree 100%.
I think these groups will get evermore desperate for attention in the coming years as their narritaves fades from the national memory. One such flagging group has a protest planned at Mississippi State University this May at the Grant Presidential Library. I'm not sure what they want to accomplish other than to get attention. … Everyone loves a circus.
One such flagging group has a protest planned at Mississippi State University this May at the Grant Presidential Library. I'm not sure what they want to accomplish other than to get attention.
They do seem to conflate spectacle with accomplishment.
Harold Summers. Apr 24, 2015 @ 5:40
Hey dick and Levin,I guess both of you are the northern crew?Talk about the South all you want.Their we're laws being broke in the Yankee ranks.What does burning and raping women and innocent children have to do with war?As the mad man Sherman did.You called my ancestors "dirt farmers".Did any of your Jewish ancestors fight in the war of northern agression?I doubt it.You seem to be a good writer.But all that don't mean anything if your a hater of the South.To me your just out to glorify the north.But as i stated earlier you can't change or dishonor the valiant men that fought for the confederacy.Have you ever doubt for your country Levin?
Thanks for adding your perspective to this post. I do hope that you feel better as a result.
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