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Washington & Lee University President Ken Ruscio promised Wednesday to meet with a group of students who demanded the school remove all confederate flags from campus and begin to cancel classes for undergraduates on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
The president was responding to demands issued by a group of 12 W&L Law students, collectively known as The Committee, that were sent to the administration and members of the Board of Trustees.
Ruscio said in a campuswide letter he asked Provost Daniel Wubah to schedule a meeting with the law students who issued the demands, and to meet with the University Committee on Inclusiveness and Campus Climate, which was designed to address diversity concerns.
“Throughout this year, UCICC and the Office of Student Affairs have been holding focus groups with students to discuss some of the very issues that the law students are raising,” Ruscio said.
Students issued four demands, promising to engage in civil disobedience if they were not met by September 2014:
1. We demand that the University fully recognize Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on the undergraduate campus.
2. We demand that the University stop allowing neo-confederates to march on campus with confederate flags on Lee-Jackson Day.
3. We demand that the University immediately remove all confederate flags from its property and premises, including those flags located within Lee Chapel.
4. We demand that the University issue an official apology for the University’s participation in chattel slavery, including a denunciation of General Robert E. Lee’s participation in slavery
See this right here pisses me off to no end. I hate the South, I really do. I tried to give these people the benefit of the doubt, but they’re just so, so, so stupid. There is literally no hope for these infra humans. I wish General Sherman had nukes instead of torches, because the only hope for that part of the country is to just annihilate the population and start over from scratch.
People really don’t celebrate Martin Luther King day? That actually happens? I mean, if I’m a school administrator at a University in Virginia, named after a guy who led a giant army defending the right to own black slaves, I’d probably make extra sure to celebrate MLK day. At least try to throw us off the scent a little bit.
Look, I’m gonna settle this whole confederate flag debate once and for all. Obviously it does represent racism and slavery. Obviously. But morons in Georgia will tell you that they weren’t racist, they were merely defending their way of life from an oppressive federal government.
For that reason, you have to move away from the race issue with these idiots. They’ll never see what’s right in front of them. Call them what they really are: Treasonous. Anyone using the confederate flag for anything besides wiping their ass, should be immediately arrested for sedition.
Ya see, the confederate flag represents a terrorist organization, that called themselves a “country.” They’re no more a country than Al-Qaeda. They’re just a group of fundamentalists with guns who wanna kill real Americans because they hate the fact that we represent freedom. They are the most successful terrorist organization in the history of the world. They are responsible for 650,000 American deaths in their failed insurrection. That’s almost 200 times the amount of casualties Osama bin Laden pulled off. Al-Qaeda would literally be in awe of what those following the confederate flag were able to accomplish.
Oh yea, and did I mention they killed the greatest President in the history of this great nation? Abraham Lincoln was elected by the people of the United States. It wasn’t close either time he was elected either. The people OVERWHELMINGLY wanted him. After his first election, you didn’t even wait to see what he was all about before declaring war. If he won in 1860 you were going to kill other Americans. That is the definition of a terrorist.
Then after General Sherman burnt your imaginary country to the ground, Lincoln was elected again. You responded by killing him and aiding his assassins in a 12 day manhunt. Imagine if Bin Laden had killed President Bush. Would these idiots be flying Al-Qaeda flags and bragging about their heritage? Of course not. But they’re too stupid to see this obvious parallel.
The irony is that these are the same people who claim to love ‘Murica. “If you don’t like it leave it,” and “kick out all the illegals” are the usual battle cries nowadays. So the race card against these people isn’t nearly as effective as the treason card. They consider themselves the ultimate patriots, but when faced with this undeniable truth, they simply have to admit that the confederate flag represents a terrorist organization.
The whole confederate flag obsession makes my head want to explode. These people honestly think they’re celebrating grits, lemonade on the veranda, and mint juleps. They have convinced themselves that the flag represents some imaginary laid back lifestyle where everyone lived in harmony until the evil federal government showed up with their guns and fancy “integration.” Here’s some of the more popular arguments, from the Facebook page “The Confederate flag is pride of the south and not a racist flag.”
Pride and honor? Pride in what? NASCAR and Alabama football? How are you idiots proud of a flag that represents a make believe country that got their asses kicked? That’s like being proud to be a Cleveland Browns fan. You are the definition of a loser Alexios.
What are these idiots smoking? Your flag doesn’t stand for slavery? Maybe it doesn’t have a picture of slaves on the front, but you declared war on the United States of America because you were unwilling to compromise on the fact that black people could be bought and sold as property. Please tell me how that is not racist or symbolic of slavery.
So let me get this straight…..A “confederate” state attacked the United States military, but it wasn’t their fault? Newsflash – it doesn’t matter what you think your stupid flag represents. The fact of the matter is that it represents one thing, and one thing alone – TREASON. If you fly that thing in your yard, you should be shot. Period. You are a traitor to this country, and you’re celebrating a flag that represents an imaginary country that STARTED a war which led to the deaths of 650,000 Americans – more than the rest of the wars in American history combined.
And the U.S. government DROVE them to that point??? Conservatives gone wild right here. See, liberals blame the government for DRIVING Al-Qaeda into the 9/11 attacks. Conservatives blame the government for forcing the South to declare Civil War. It’s just a bunch of bullshit on both sides. People attack America because they’re selfish asshats who prefer violence to diplomacy. In this case they were “driven” to attack the United States of America because the people had the audacity to freely elect Abraham Lincoln, which of bunch of non-slave owning rednecks thought was worth dying for. Yea, celebrate that you nudniks.
Remember when your imaginary country rebelled against the United States government? Didn’t you all renounce your American citizenship? Doesn’t that make you rednecks illegal too? You know what “illegal” immigrants haven’t done? They haven’t led a giant fucking insurrection against the United States of America. But they have ID’s now? The humanity!!!
How brain dead are these people? You’re like the cow that keeps touching the electric fence, forgetting each time that they’re about to get shocked. Every time you idiots “rise again” you get smacked down. Haven’t you figured that out yet? You “rose up” during the Civil War, and you got destroyed. You rose up against Civil Rights, and you were repeatedly pummeled by the Federal government. Newsflash – they have more guns than you. They have nukes. They have international recognition as a sovereign nation. You have rednecks and flags. So go ahead and rise up again morons.
This is the argument that gets me every time. It’s not a racist flag? It’s a way of life? What way of life is that? Oh yea, a way of life in which one group of people makes another group of people work for free, and then buys and sells them like pogs.
And your stupid flag isn’t an American flag at all. Not even close. It represents an imaginary country that was NEVER recognized by a single other nation in the world. I mean you idiots couldn’t even get BRITAIN to recognize you, and they would’ve taken any opportunity they could get to take a giant, steamy dump on America.
Ladies and gentlemen, I present to you the most useless person in America, Andrew Mczilkey. Sadly, his delusional way of thinking is par for the course down in Dixie.
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Im Andrew McZilkey,s mother and am furious that you would call him what you have. He was 17 at the time and tormented with schizoaffective disorder. He was never a “useless” person. Andrew passed away on March 2nd 2019 and it really chaps my ass that when I wish to view his memory on line that I have to see him being demoralized by you. First of all he was a child suffering with auditory hallucinations as well as visual. You are no better than a true racist. You berated and have tarnished my memory of him. He was NO racist but rather a young southern boy that often relayed what his auditory hallucinations were saying to him. Thanks for tormenting a grieving mother even more. I am asking you to remove his comment and YOUR offensive statement about him. You can google his name for his obituary. Who picks on a sick kid anyway? You have no heart and are discriminattive toward the sufferings if a child.
Our hearts are aching for him…
Yesterday our baby lost his battle with schizoaffective disorder. Please pray for his soul and our hearts!
….from my own fb page
Very sad.
However, dredging the story up again 5 years later for a bit of “Look at me” internet attention is a dick move on this blog.
Now off you fuck, there’s a lamb.
Yes Sir, You are a DICK, and a heartless one at that. Rot in hell, it’s where you belong. I “was” being nice about the whole thing. Pfffft, he was only 17 and very ill so I really could give two shits about your opinion. I was merely asking to remove it so I didn’t have to be reminded of his torment. May your hell be as equally and more tormenting than his was. YOU ASS! Sheesh where do you people come from? Straight out of hell? Well DICKLESS, I’m no 17 year old and you can kiss it sir. Really hope you never have to mourn the loss of a child but by your lack of compassion for me, it is my guess that you are not fit for reproduction much less loving a child. And while I’m at it, I never knew this shit rag existed until I wanted to see my babes picture and stumbled on it, hence the years of not even knowing of this pile of filth was floating around. I made a simple request, there was no reason what so ever for you to be nasty to me. Your deserve whatever torment comes your way you disgusting filth. I have no more to say here. It was hurtful to see him so misunderstood but I hope he at least pissed you off anyway, THEN this insult would have been worth it. You don’t own the damned internet either buster, I’ll google you all damn day if I feel like it, PRICK!
Waaah! Waaah! Waaah!
My daughter was caught up in the London Bridge terrorist attack 2 years ago, but I don’t normally mention it on social media as I don’t crave the attention from a horrible incident like you do.
I suspect you’ll get plenty of the attention you wanted, thanks to your posts. Probably not the kind you wanted, though.
If you’re looking for sympathy, you’ll find it in the dictionary between shit and syphilis.
Very sorry for your loss but even more sorry I had the experience of dealing with a fuck face like you. Beat it you bum!
Your heart was aching so much that instead of grieving you googled his name and went looking for any pages on the web where he was mentioned so you could whine about them over 5 years later.
Your faux grief cuts no ice here.
As I said before, off you fuck.
its not about slavery. i understand that it was used in the war. but being from Tennessee and the south in general, the flag stand for so much more. my great great grandfather fought in that war. not for slavery but for his belief in the southern states. The confederate flag is a flag that represents the people who died in the war. southern and northern. what does the union flag represent? the people who risked their lives in that war. We can’t pretend that war didn’t happen and taking down the flag is just a disgrace to the people who fought in it. you would be upset if the union flag got taken down because its a “reminder of what happened in the war”
Letter from Dwight David Eisenhower
Respecting your August 1 inquiry calling attention to my often expressed admiration for General Robert E. Lee, I would say, first, that we need to understand that at the time of the War Between the States the issue of Secession had remained unresolved for more than 70 years. Men of probity, character, public standing and unquestioned loyalty, both North and South, had disagreed over this issue as a matter of principle from the day our Constitution was adopted.
General Robert E. Lee was, in my estimation, one of the supremely gifted men produced by our Nation. He believed unnervingly in the Constitutional validity of his cause which until 1865 was still an arguable question in America;”
The Hartford Convention exhibits quite clearly that secession was held by many to be Constitutional minority secessionist group at the Hartford convention did help set a precedent for later secessionists. Although many in 1814 and 1815 sharply criticized the Federalists, no one yet argued against the principle of States’ Rights. These arguments, first made at the Hartford Convention in 1814, would be repeated in the 1850s, ultimately leading to the Civil War.Massachusetts also believed in nullification as evidenced by its participation in the Hartford Convention.
Resolved That it be and hereby is recommended to the Legislatures of the several States represented in this Convention to adopt all such measures as may be necessary effectually to protect the citizens of said States from the operation and effects of all acts which have been or may be passed by the Congress of the United States, which shall contain provisions, subjecting the militia or other citizens to forcible drafts, conscription’s, or presentiments, not authorized by the Constitution of the United States”
This very principle drove North Carolina and Virginia to join the Confederacy, right or wrong. Contrary to what is usually put forward by southern hates, the Border States seceded over this very same issue. Slavery was not mentioned in any of their orders of secession of the Border states, except the phrase” oppression of the southern slave states, which is in regard to Lincoln use of force.
Historian Forrest McDonald argued that after adopting the Constitution “there were no guidelines, either in theory or in history, as to whether the compact could be dissolved and, if so, on what conditions”. Professor Garry Gallagher Civil War historian states that the issue of secession was never resolved.That being aid secession should in my opinion only is do0ne when the most radical of conditions prevail upon the freedom and liberty of the individuals. That was not the case in 1861.
You hate the South. And wish Sherman had nukes. That’s genocide. And Sherman didn’t like blacks at all – or Indians. Why would anyone in the South give a damn what you think ? You think we’re stupid ? Not stupid enough to believe that “Diversity is our Strength”
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Obviously the Confederate flag is pretty much a symbol of hate, standing for people who were pro slavery. However, if you are pro first amendment you should have no problem with morons flying symbols of hate whenever they feel like it. Now on Government buildings–that’s a different story.
That flag is not the “confederate flag” this is the confederate flag.
http://hernandoheckler.files.wordpress.com/2014/03/1900047_600117900069668_1202371781_n.jpg
So you’ve been hateing on and burning the wrong flag.
I’ve heard the flag referred to as “The stars and bars but that is not so.
This is the true “Stars and bars”
http://www.crwflags.com/fotw/images/u/us-csa7.gif
So all I have to say is It’s Saint Andrew’s Cross.
If you don’t know who that is well too bad I’m not telling you look it up, research it.
That makes me think of a few qoutes.
“Every man should endeavour to understand the meaning of subjugation before it is too late…
It means that the history of this heroic struggle will be written by the enemy that our youth will be trained by northern schoolteachers; will learn from northern school books their version of the war; will be impressed by the influences of history and education to regard our gallant dead as trators, and our maimed veterans as fit objects for derision…It is said slavery is all that we are fighting for and if we give it up we give up all. Even if this where true wich we deny, slavery is not all our enemys are fighting for. It is merely the pretence to establish sectional superiority and a more centralised form of government and to deprive us of our rights and liberties.”
Major General Patrick R. Cleburne, CSA, January 1864
“Sirs you have no reason to be ashamed of your confederate dead,see too it that they have no reason to be ashamed of you”
Confederate Veteran 1942
Deo Vindice
The southern states attempted sedition which is not illegal.
The federal government ala Abraham Lincoln declared war on THEM.
YES they owned people.
NO it’s not ok.
For someone who loves freedom and defends the first amendment when it suits him, declaring flyers of a flag racist terrorists that should be shot for treason is a bit.. Hmmm NORTHERN of you. I don’t mean that in a higher iq way or better at baseball way or closer to canada way. I mean that in the better than you because there are more expensive schools near me, liberal, better than you hicks in the country who farm my produce and make my orange juice way.
Remember that there wouldn’t be a NORTH without slavery and hicks with guns and terrorists who overthrew a tyrannical government. Those guys collectively called the founding fathers would have loved to kill British royalty; they just couldn’t.
Imagine if Great Britain wanted to reclaim these lands and make it treason to fly the Stars and Stripes on YOUR FATHERS LAND. That’s pretty much the same argument and it’s stupid both ways.
My opinion remains; whoever gives a fuck about this flag (in support or not) is the nudnik here.
As far as MLK day, waaaah sounds like something a teacher would complain about.
Couldn’t agree more anyone who disagrees with this is a world class nudnik
If Aidan was still writing this blog he would have at least put an effort into trying to figure out what caused the civil war (not slavery) I’d also assume that he would understand that secession is a fundamental right, not treason. That said, most of these “southern pride” people don’t know this stuff either and are probably just being racist pricks or spewing filth that their uneducated dads taught them.
Actually it was the souths belief that their “states rights” to enslave black people was about to be infringed upon by the federal government that caused the civil war.
Wrong.
At no point in this blog did I save that slavery caused the Civil War. Certainly the slavery issue played a large factor in sectional tensions. Only a complete moron would deny that. Since you’re obviously not a huge moron, you know that this is true:
“Other seceding states echoed South Carolina. “Our position is thoroughly identified with the institution of slavery — the greatest material interest of the world,” proclaimed Mississippi in its own secession declaration, passed Jan. 9, 1861. “Its labor supplies the product which constitutes by far the largest and most important portions of the commerce of the earth. . . . A blow at slavery is a blow at commerce and civilization.”
Stupid facts!!!!