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NOVEMBER 6 UPDATE
COMMITMENTS
Celine Pujol, 3rd/SS,
Whitney Kroh / SS-2B-OF / Orange County
Lionettes / Cal State Fullerton
Kristen Miller / C / Orange County Lionettes / Cal State Northridge
Shelly Madick, P, 1st, So
Katie Beazley from
Ashley Cuttichia,
WHAT’S YOUR
FEAR FACTOR?
The producers of the NBC show, Fear Factor, have asked SPY to assist in recruiting softball players and parents who will be considered for a future episode of the show.
The producers asked SPY to publish the following item. Send your responses to the show, not to SPY.
Does
your family have what it takes to compete as a team on Fear Factor?
Fear Factor is now searching for 2 person Parent/Child
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$50,000 prize. Fear Factor stunts
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THE REBEL FLAG
& THE RED BARON
Howard Dean can be the candidate for left-handed Portugese fishermen, or Native Americans who don’t eat corn, or ballplayers who can’t hit their weight – but, I wish he had said he wanted to be the redneck candidate, rather than the candidate of guys who hang Confederate flags in their pickup trucks.
This essay is not about Howard Dean; instead, it emerges from a life-long disdain for the misuse of the Confederate battle flag. Let me say upfront that my Mother’s family never owned slaves but fought for the South; my father’s family fought for the North, a fact which was withheld from my racist, bigoted grandfather (he disliked blacks, Jews, Catholics, foreigners and his oldest grandson, not necessarily in that order).
If the Daughters of the Confederacy want to hang the Stars and Bars in their meeting rooms, or, Civil War buffs want to carry the battle flag in their numerous re-enactments, or, anyone of Southern heritage who has an historical bent and wants to display the flag in his or her home, or, any accredited museum or monument wants to include it in their displays, indeed, any dignified tribute to the gentility and social graces of the Old South, I have no problem.
But, my sense is that many of the people who put flag
miniatures in their pickup trucks, or resort to any of the myriad depictions of
the flag, have little knowledge of the Civil War and, very much unlike
Unfortunately, while there were a great many underlying
causes for the Civil War, some political, some economic, the fact is that the
issue of states’ rights, which bedeviled the Founding Fathers before our
nation was even christened, was never resolved – and slavery became emblematic
of that historical division, even though many thoughtful people on both sides of
the Mason-Dixon line were apprehensive about Federal government, preferring that
most matters be left to the States – matters independent of the slavery issue.
In an historical sense, the seeds of the Civil War were sown that day in
Independence Hall when
And, so, once again, the failure of politicians to agree
led to war – a war in which teenage farm boys from both North and South, few
of whom if any ever owned a slave, died by the hundreds.
The
Thus, today, the Confederate battle flag is seen by many as an atavism, a throwback to the slavery of the Old South – and a great many people find such displays, especially such random depictions as back windows in pickup trucks, deeply offensive. I have no doubt that many of the people who display the flag in that manner do not consider themselves racist; indeed, having grown up with some “good old boys,” I am sure that a significant number do not think of themselves as touting racism; rather, they know that putting that flag in their trucks really pisses off a lot of people, especially “liberals” and that has value to them. But, there are undoubtedly those who are still fighting the war – and do not accept the undeniable fact of a pluralistic society.
There are proper ways to commemorate the Confederate dead, and using the flag in an appropriate manner, without endorsing the negatives associated with the Old South. I wish that every Southern politician, at any level, would urge such proper usage.
Of course, these views have not only been long-held, dating to my teenage years, they are the views fashioned by a teenager who sought to integrate the Young Catholic Youth League in Oklahoma – a very unfashionable view in 1950-51.
Thus sensitized to the display of images which have
profound meanings, I was hesitant to display the Blue Max at a costume party.
The Order pour le Merite was
created by
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