Comments on: ‘The South Will Rise Again’ Chant Won’t Rise Again

By: Rebel

Rebel — Sun, 20 Feb 2011 02:35:53 +0000

uhmmm if the goverment keeps doing what there doing it wont be long before theres another civil war just sayin. god blesss

By: Anonymous

Anonymous — Sun, 16 Jan 2011 11:07:38 +0000

TFM

By: Blazestop

Blazestop — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 01:37:40 +0000

“I am afraid that there is a certain class of race-problem solvers who don’t want the patient to get well, because as long as the disease holds out they have not only an easy means of making a living, but also an easy medium through which to make themselves prominent before the public.” Booker T. Washington

By: Chicago Yankee in the South

Chicago Yankee in the South — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:39:28 +0000

Bob said: “Whether you are or not, you will always come off looking racist …”

Yep. Insert whatever is convenient at the end of that statement.

By: Chicago Yankee in the South

Chicago Yankee in the South — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:38:04 +0000

And herein lies the problem. Of course racism still exists. If you actually think it’s ever going away, there’s a large plot on the moon I’d like to sell you. But the buffoons here with “hey south you lost” and “secede now” only emphasizes my point. The south is no different than the north in that there are racists everywhere; it’s part of the human condition. And you don’t have to be white to be racist….I know, that concept might be too big for some of you to grasp.

By: AngryReb

AngryReb — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:21:01 +0000

This is NOT about racism. This is about a little man trying to prove himself at a big school. It is completely ridiculous. The only HINT of racism at Ole Miss is the existence of a “Black Student Union.” What about a “White Student Union”????????

By: SunRoads

SunRoads — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 06:05:01 +0000

Hey south. . we’ve rethought it, and you can go ahead and secede. Sooner the better.

By: Dan K

Dan K — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 18:58:34 +0000

South: You LOST! Get over it.

By: BobJohnson

BobJohnson — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 02:29:16 +0000

Ummm….Yeah. Chicago Yankee in the South, I’m from Arkansas, and you must have found the only haven for non-racists in the entire South. You talk like all that racism happened in the distant past. The Civil Rights movement was a despicable period for the South as well, and that was only 50 years ago. Hell, in my state the NATIONAL GUARD had to be sent in to let black kids into their school because our racist GOVERNOR had the police keeping them out. I still hear racial epithets on a near-daily basis. I think you may be experiencing what folks call Church Talk. Everybody’s your best friend at Church, but wait till you turn your back. The only MYTH that you are perpetrating is that there is very little racism in the South. You should be out with us when we take my nephew, who is half black and half white, to public places. I wouldn’t get stared at that much if I had a penis growing out of my nose! Like Pissed Mississippian said, sharecropping, only counting them as 3/5 of a person, and keeping them segregated was just as much a part of that racism as anything. Even if you had a solid argument, trying to justify something like this song is an automatic FAIL! Whether you are or not, you will always come off looking racist when you defend it. The social stigmas that are attached to it will remain so, and should remain so, as a reminder of a terrible period in our history.

By: Pissed Mississippian

Pissed Mississippian — Thu, 12 Nov 2009 00:40:24 +0000

Racism is alive and well in Mississippi (and other parts of the South), and to believe it is not the case is just foolish. So people may not be calling black people “niggers” but that’s not all there is to racism (although this still happens too). Just because slavery ended, the accumulation of wealth from the backs of black people did not end. Have you heard of Reconstruction and what kinds of corrupt things happened both during and after it ended? Have you heard of share-cropping? Or the thousands of other systems set up to further keep black people “in their place” while the land owners made money? Do you know about the segregation of schools and the piss poor education people received based off of the inequalities of schools? Or the value of being able to vote and the horror of knowing the people who decide what does or doesn’t happen is NOT in your hands? Or the economic power that education, land, voting rights, and other privileges afford you? Please, people. Read your history books. And not the bullshit text books they gave you in high school and middle school. Wake up and open your eyes to the reality of our history, and maybe we won’t be on different sides of the fence.