Running racism in America thread

In a related story, Irish Car Bombs are being renamed "Southie Smoothies."

 

From the artists' standpoint, I'm sure it was a paycheck.
I drove down Monument Avenue in Richmond once; must have been '92. It was awe inspiring to me; I don't care if it was Robert E. Lee and JEB Stewart or Homer Simpson and Al Bundy. I was captivated by the grandeur of the work.

 

I toured two battlefields while I was still in middle school: Vicksburg and Shiloh. At the time Vicksburg was much more developed with both Union and Confederate memorials. I put my foot up on the Illinois Memorial to tie my shoes and almost got ate up by red ants. Chalked it up to karma.

 

Oh gosh, I feel like this thread has "gone south" as they say, or maybe in your area "gone south" is not an expression. I use it to mean things have soured or faltered. But I don't know from where it came. My use never meant race or area. Is it racist?" I also used "that's the pot calling the kettle black". Never ever, ever linking it to race. Its origins are french cooking. I know, because after being questioned on it in 1988 from great friend, I looked it up. Today the same sentiment is "pot, meet kettle". Not every thing is meant to be racist. But when we know better, we do better.

 

Cool example of that one, both ways? U of Florida doing away with the gator bait chant.

 

Some of us are getting ridiculous with this.

Consider all the financial sayings where being "in the black" is a good thing. That goes back to all the adding machines that printed red when the numbers were negative. That's where "Black Friday" comes from: the myth where it's said businesses become profitable for the year.

 

It'll settle a bit over time. I can live with someone getting all social justice on me because I used an expression I learned from my daddy. Or they can kiss my ass.

 

Wait until prudes get their underwear in a twist and demand that Sex on the Beach gets a new name ...

 

I can't tell if you're with, or against what I said, but I'm allowing expressions of the time. And allowing there were no racial connections!

 

The Illinois Memorial has some weird, amazing acoustics thanks to the open top.

As for the rest of the city, the people looking to tear down statues and such might have an orgasm if they ever go there. There are hundreds of them scattered all over the place, miles from what seems like the actual battlefield. Some of them are in the middle of the woods, some are just off to the side of the road on city streets. Most are markers detailing what a particular unit did during the campaign, but there are plenty of busts and small statues as well. I can see someone unfamiliar with the history of the area going there, seeing those, and thinking the entire city is still a Confederate stronghold.

 

It’s overrated.

The drink, I mean.

But also the sand.