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Saturday, March 10, 2018
Tuesday, June 13, 2017
Civil War Theories and antebellum reasoning
I've experienced the Civil War first hand as a Damned Yankee who moved into Georgia back in the 1980's.
No, I did not get shot at unless I was shot at and missed. But, I've been broadsided with loose verbal cannons over the so called The Great Cause. Because 'you people' revised history.
Back on Damned Yankee. If you've never heard the term, Damned Yankee, it has a specific and unique Southern meaning. It's not about U.S. intervention in foreign nations or adobe walls painted with the slogan, 'Yankee go home!'
No, 'Yankees' are 'those people' from 'up north.' Robert E. Lee called the federal forces, 'those people.' So 'those people' became 'Yankees' over time. But, the 'damned' doesn't get added unless a 'Yankee' comes south for a vacation and stays. A Damned Yankee is one of 'those people' living next door.
So, soon after moving into the Atlanta Metro Area in 1986, a proud, Southern, Republican, woman called me a Damned Yankee and and explained it to me in the slow measured tones used to mask hatred and contempt.
So, I didn't fire the first verbal broadside, a proper lady fired first.
So, this 'Damned Yankee,' Me, gets to hear the many myths of Southern Heritage including the War of Northern Aggression, the Great Cause, and states rights as the overarching cause of our 'Civil War.'
I'm ranting as a proper Southerner from South Carolina politely revised these argument today. He planted as his source, the writing of a religious scholar responding to Timothy Egan's article in the New York Times.
As we politely mused aloud about the real cause of that unpleasantness, he asked me if maybe the North had a different reason for fighting than the South? Rather than answer yes or no, I played my Abraham Lincoln card. Well, there's no such thing as a card in any discussion but we'll talk about other types of fighting words another day.
Since Lincoln answered a lot of questions by telling 'homespun' stories, I made up my own story in reply to his question about why did the North fight since it had no slaves type of thing.
"Well, I knew this feller, who got himself into a fight and won. And, he did a pretty good job of winning as once a fight is started the only way to be sure of ending it is to win it. So after the fight, people asked him, 'Why did you whoop up on that feller?' My simple minded hero answered, 'Because he hit me first!'
What ever combination of reason drove the North in the Civil War, the South struck first to preserve, not slavery, but the right to breed human beings into life time and generational slavery based on race.
I don't know why we need to debate past the South's first punch.
No, I did not get shot at unless I was shot at and missed. But, I've been broadsided with loose verbal cannons over the so called The Great Cause. Because 'you people' revised history.
Back on Damned Yankee. If you've never heard the term, Damned Yankee, it has a specific and unique Southern meaning. It's not about U.S. intervention in foreign nations or adobe walls painted with the slogan, 'Yankee go home!'
No, 'Yankees' are 'those people' from 'up north.' Robert E. Lee called the federal forces, 'those people.' So 'those people' became 'Yankees' over time. But, the 'damned' doesn't get added unless a 'Yankee' comes south for a vacation and stays. A Damned Yankee is one of 'those people' living next door.
So, soon after moving into the Atlanta Metro Area in 1986, a proud, Southern, Republican, woman called me a Damned Yankee and and explained it to me in the slow measured tones used to mask hatred and contempt.
So, I didn't fire the first verbal broadside, a proper lady fired first.
So, this 'Damned Yankee,' Me, gets to hear the many myths of Southern Heritage including the War of Northern Aggression, the Great Cause, and states rights as the overarching cause of our 'Civil War.'
I'm ranting as a proper Southerner from South Carolina politely revised these argument today. He planted as his source, the writing of a religious scholar responding to Timothy Egan's article in the New York Times.
As we politely mused aloud about the real cause of that unpleasantness, he asked me if maybe the North had a different reason for fighting than the South? Rather than answer yes or no, I played my Abraham Lincoln card. Well, there's no such thing as a card in any discussion but we'll talk about other types of fighting words another day.
Since Lincoln answered a lot of questions by telling 'homespun' stories, I made up my own story in reply to his question about why did the North fight since it had no slaves type of thing.
"Well, I knew this feller, who got himself into a fight and won. And, he did a pretty good job of winning as once a fight is started the only way to be sure of ending it is to win it. So after the fight, people asked him, 'Why did you whoop up on that feller?' My simple minded hero answered, 'Because he hit me first!'
What ever combination of reason drove the North in the Civil War, the South struck first to preserve, not slavery, but the right to breed human beings into life time and generational slavery based on race.
I don't know why we need to debate past the South's first punch.
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