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RoadRage · 10-11-2003, 07:59 AM

Damn Tripod ate your image.

Any image of the Southern "Johnny Rebel" is going to be opposed by those who want to erase/deny "bad" history, either because they were the oppressed or the oppressors.

We have a similar problem here with Fort Smith Southside High School. Their mascot: the Running Rebel. There are no images on him on the Website, and on the sideline the mascot is a student dressed in Confederate gray carrying a red flag with a blue S in the center and stars within the S.

Every year there's a challenge to the mascot, and every year my father (the "prominent Black cardiologist" in town) is there to help shoot down the protest. He tells them every year, "If you succeed in erasing all the wrongs done to us throughout history, we'll be back in shackles within a generation." He helped in hammering out the current compromise solution. No one is happy with it, but no one ever has any better ideas, so it stays.

10-11-2003, 07:59 AM	#4 (permalink)
RoadRage Stay off the sidewalk! Location: Oklahoma City, OK	Damn Tripod ate your image. Any image of the Southern "Johnny Rebel" is going to be opposed by those who want to erase/deny "bad" history, either because they were the oppressed or the oppressors. We have a similar problem here with Fort Smith Southside High School. Their mascot: the Running Rebel. There are no images on him on the Website, and on the sideline the mascot is a student dressed in Confederate gray carrying a red flag with a blue S in the center and stars within the S. Every year there's a challenge to the mascot, and every year my father (the "prominent Black cardiologist" in town) is there to help shoot down the protest. He tells them every year, "If you succeed in erasing all the wrongs done to us throughout history, we'll be back in shackles within a generation." He helped in hammering out the current compromise solution. No one is happy with it, but no one ever has any better ideas, so it stays. __________________ Join TFP Team SETI 43K workunits complete, 34 members, more of each needed.