Friday, April 19, 2013

A Short Tale of Two Nations……

Via Bernhard

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“You can tell a lot about a nation when it faces a bit of trouble. The yankee nation has gone full-bore apoplectic over the Boston bombing. Several traits, none of them attractive, have surfaced.

First, indignation. "How dare you attack us! We're innocent people who have never harmed anyone."

Second, fear. "Stay in your homes, lock your doors and pull down the shades, and if someone knocks, don't answer it. Leave everything to the authorities." These are commands to a servile, effeminate people.

And third, despair. I heard the former Mayor of Boston, Ray Flynn, say that this was the worst things that had ever happened to his city. How indeed will they ever recover? Perhaps they could look to Columbia, Charleston, Atlanta, or several other once-devastated Southern towns and cities for some historical advice on how to survive and recover from real tragedies.

As a Southerner, I've had a belly full of all this whining, complaining, hyperbole, and fear-mongering from New England. Meanwhile, our Southern kinfolk in Texas are quietly going about the business of cleaning up and looking to the future amidst a much greater and more deadly disaster in the little community of West. We are indeed two very different nations.”

Dr. Michael Hill, LS President

4 comments:

  1. Your damn right we are , and it is time to separate the wheat from the caff.

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    1. :) 150 years overdue.

      "In regard to your first communication touching the burning of Plymouth you seem to have forgotten two things. You forget, sir, that you are a Yankee and that Plymouth is a Southern town. It is no business of yours if we choose to burn our own towns. A meddling Yankee troubles himself with everybody's matters but his own and repents of everybody's sins except his own. We are a different people. Should the Yankees burn a Union village in Connecticut or a codfish town in Massachusetts we would not meddle with them but rather bid them God-speed in their work of purifying the atmosphere."
      http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=75&highlight=quotes

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    2. Indeed.:) Read the complete letter, if you didn't. He was also a professor who taught math using derogatory examples of Yankees. There was absolutely no love in his heart for them. A good Tar Heel.

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