Drudge is trying his damnedest today to get a Lott-size stink brewing around Robert Byrd for his Confederate cameo in Gods and Generals. As I mentioned a few months ago, I do think this is a bit strange, but hardly in the league of Lott openly advocating segregation in his capacity as majority leader.
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Are you kidding?!? This is a former KKK member who claims to have reformed his position on racial issues appearing in a movie as a confederate general – General of an army gathered to defend Southerners’ right to own other people. This is not Sen. Fred Thompson who was and is a professional actor. This is a career politician jumping in to do a cameo in a movie playing a part that honors some of the most vile sentiments ever held by Americans. To me, this well thought through decision is significantly more offensive than Sen. Lott’s admittedly offensive, off the cuff remarks.
The American Civil War was not about slavery or the repression of a culture. Many African-Americans fought willing for the Confederacy, some even begging to follow the masters they were genuinely loyal to to the war front. And the Northern States were horrible repressers of equality – initially using regiments of Black men to dig ditches rather than have them fight as equals. (Glory – if you haven’t read any history is half way decent movie) The war was about State’s rights – the right of a state to make their own choices because Washington DC is very different from Indiana, from Texas, from Georgia. (Whether to have slavery or today’s equivalents, medicinal marijuana, abortion, assisted suicide).
The KKK was a post war institution founded by Forrest, who fought for the Confederacy during the civil war. But his sentiments were not shared universally through out the South and there were many men who hated Forrest as we hate slavery. Being from the South doesn’t make you evil anymore than being Black or White does.
We must be proud of our heritage, or do something that actually makes a difference. You are not making a difference, but Byrd has. Bryd has done more than almost any other human being toward repairing the damage done to his state during the Civil War. Bryd is of course from West Virginia – my economically repressed state of birth.
If you say Byrd is horrible because he played the part of a confederate extra, you are out of line. The Confederacy should not have done some of the things they did, but they were not evil – just human. If you say Byrd is horrible for joining and resigning from the KKK, they you are unfairly trying to punish a man for a mistake he has already confessed to and repented. There is no shame in remembering the past, as long as we learn from it and become better people. The senator would do well to remember that.
Whitey and Derrick, stop with the language in here. I should’ve erased Whitey’s post immediately, but frankly this is an old story and I didn’t notice what was going on until Derrick’s reply. If either of you start up the swearing and name-calling in here again, I’m banning your IP’s.
Kevin:
Yes, you should have erased Whitey’s post. I am sorry for the venom that has arisen, but you must understand that your inaction did cause harm. As for Whitey, I think he showed his true colors. Obviously, people who can only make vulgar have no intellect to defend themselves with. I am willing to listen to legitimate evidence. I am a reasonable person. I am sorry to discover that there are so few intelligent people in the world. Maybe we should form a club…
All jokes aside, (Whitey) nothing will be resolved by pretending you are better than the rest of us, just because your ancestors killing hundreds of thousands in clan wars and mine were killing thousands in the wars of the roses. It is not productive of classify people by the stupid organizations they belong to (Hitler was a Christian…) or the poor pathetic slobs they have to call ancestors (nobility or theif? fine line…). It is a brave person who can make good of the mistakes, rather than swearing they will have revenge. There is no such thing.
Hey, get real. Bobby Byrd has never repented his KKK past, and he probably has the blood of innocent Blacks on his hands.
Of course, the real fellow racists of Byrdie boy, that is, Jesse Jackson, Al Sharpton, Maxine Waters and the rest won’t go after him because he isn’t (gasp) a Republican.
Has nothing to do with the Civil War or the Reb flag. I’m a White Southern Dem and this is the unvarnished truth. Ted Turner brought in old Bobby because he thinks just like him. That’s all. And it is a real insult to Robert E. Lee and the honored Southern dead to have racists of both stripes strut their shit in the Senate, on shakedowns, or in this film.