****The posting is something that I wrote this morning and while I try to keep my personal and political opinions to my personal page, this has to do with history and tourism. If you are offended and want to go elsewhere I (unlike a lot of media) will support your right to disagree and will still enjoy your fellowship but I will be Damned if I will cow to stupidity and allow it to be aired unchallenged. PB This morning I was content to visit the grave of Buddy, my recently departed Sheltie, eat a Hardies Biscuit with my wife and read the morning paper. I wasn’t interested in a debate, a lecture or having my face slapped by ignorance and arrogance. I really didn’t want to write anything on my Saving Tara page but I did to say “thank you” to all those who came on the Tara façade tour yesterday. But let’s get back to the “face slapping ignorance part”. This morning I was struck by the front page story in the Atlanta Journal concerning Atlanta’s place in the Civil War, entitled “Civil War destroyed, re-created Atlanta” and while intriguing I decided to pass on reading it since the photo on the front is one in my collection and I doubted I would learn anything new. So, when I sat down I sent straight to the metro section and see if I was in the Obituaries (which can make for a bad day) and then read the local news. An article titled “This Writer ‘Done With the Wind’ caught my eye and I walked willingly into a left jab. The same author of the front page story on the civil war, Ernie Suggs starts off by saying he is a northerner from Brooklyn who happens to be black and…although writing a story about GWTW he had never seen it until last week. He then goes on to rip it as second only to DW Griffiths Birth of a Nation in being both racial and bigoted in its representations and in the end suggests it should be relegated, (as the copy he saw) to the dustbin of history. Well excuse me for saying what a lot of my fellow southerners are thinking right now but, why don’t you just take your ignorant ass and put it on a plan and head on back up to Brooklyn or is it because they wouldn’t give you a job? You see the land that you came from sent many a young Irish lad to the south to free the slaves and save the Union (check the history book) and not the Democrats that you and most of your media Buddies cow to (“cow” means to suck up…during the civil war it was called being an “Uncle Tom” to the while Democrats who owned the slaves…maybe you can find a copy of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book). And as far as your dislike of the depiction I will grant you that Hollywood’s portrayal was typically over blown, BUT Margaret Mitchells book was NOT and if you would ever return a call and come on down to Jonesboro I can identify Prissy and Pork (their real names) and many of the other slaves that were represented in her book. You see Margaret Mitchells book was more historical than fiction and it was McMillan Publishing (up north) who spell checked out Margaret’s spelling of the Gullah and Geechee word’s used by the slaves and Hollywood who did the rest (more arrogance). But you know what?....I really don’t give a damn what you or your washed up paper think about it…Gone With the Wind has brought in more money to the south and the United States in tourism dollars than you tiny brain can count. And when Dr. King was asked about the Premier he not only welcomed it to Georgia (for the tourism dollars) but he participated. Over my desk is a photo of the Ebenezer Baptist Church Choir singing at a Premier Party given for the stars and other dignitaries prior to the film showing at the Lowes. In the photo is Dr.King, the Choir and a young ML King III who sang an ensemble number, so they not only did not fight the Premier they participated in it. Maybe you should take a little time off and read the writings of fellow blacks Fredrick Douglas (Emancipator and News Paper owner and Orator), Alonzo Herndon (Atlanta millionaire) , Henry O. Flipper (Georgian who was the first black graduate of West Point) and ML King Sr. and Junior…all Republicans and maybe you can widen your horizons. And while you are at it look up and compare the amount of money given by M. Mitchell and her estate to Morehouse School of Medicine. It probably won’t change your warped since of history but it may keep you so busy you don’t have time to keep dumping piles of your steaming hot malevolent manure on the citizens of Georgia who still have a subscription to the AJC. I’ll see the rest of y’all on the off ramp.
Posted on: Sun, 27 Jul 2014 14:33:20 +0000
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