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Posts Tagged ‘South’
Bigotry in Florida:
Imagine Sending Your Black Kid to This High School! Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first “grand wizard” of the Ku Klux Klan in the late 1800s. While Duval Public School District in Jacksonville, Fla., recently gained media attention after changing the name of local Nathan B. Forrest Hi[...]
Precedents for the Horror: Burning Niggers
This will live for ever. However, there are precedents in the American South. [...]
SUNDAY REVELATIONS: A Seder For The Civil War
Of Civil Seders in the Civil War Michael Feldberg, Ph.D. Of Civil Seders in the Civil War Michael Feldberg, Ph.D. For American Jewry during the Civil War, the Passover story was especially powerful. Northern soldiers saw clear parallels between the Union freeing the South’s slaves and Moses [...]
FRANCE BANS American Sexploitation of Female Children on TV Beauty Pageants
My brother in law, William Quick, a physician living in South Carolina has called me a pervert because I compared the display of female children in child beauty pageants to child prostitution. He even called me a pervert and threatened to have my employer have me incarcerated in a mental hospital[...]
Click Image to see What Happened to The Elegance of Southern Tea Parties?
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SUNDAY REVELATIONS: Christianity Has its Own Boy Scouts
Trail Life USA: Purity Scouts. This was no small decision. Four generations of Orr men had been Eagles, including Ron and Andrew’s older brother. Andrew had spent years working toward Scouting’s highest rank, and was just months from reaching it. After the Boy Scouts had decided to adm[...]