Thursday, May 21, 2009

Ain't no time to hesitate and debate do it now

Failure is a terrible thing. A horrible feeling to have the persists long after the defeat has ouccurred. The vanquished may understand why they have lost and analyze the reasons for they're defeat but the sour taste of defeat lingers on. It has lingered on for over a hundred years in the south and spawned both a literary movement and a culture, as well as a seris of laws aimed at stripping away the rights of its black citizens. You can see it during the civil rights years when again many southern politicians argueing that by integrating school they were infringing on their 'rights.' In fact was reading in this book about the south and the Civil war Confederate in the attic this woman who was saying that slavery was 'not all that bad.' The woman was part of a group which wanted to preserve the confederate flag as its symbol. In some ways the strong rememberence of the war makes sense, it deveastated southern cities and towns reducing most of them to rubble. But at some point you would think they would move on, to change old attitude and streotypes.

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