The moment Nathan Bedford Forrest was lifted from his place of honor in Memphis, and then removed from it. Oh boy, we sure do love our hometown sometimes. Memphians are a spunky and disrespectful lot, and we relish our status as the city the rest of the state loves to hate. We just wish they'd kiss our ass and stay the fuck out of our business a little bit more. They're free, of course, to keep coming to our delightful city and giving us their tourism $$$ and paying us for the BBQ they couldn't fix if their lives depended on it, but as far as our laws? PfffffffffffffffffFUCKOFF.
True fact: the Ashokan Farewell isn't even an authentic Civil War song; it was written in the 1980s for an upstate New York folk festival (in Ashokan of all places). In that fashion it's a terrific metaphor for "The Civil War", which was Ken Burns' effort to educate people just enough with details about the Civil War while in reality being a 1980s revisionist version of the whole shooting match. Burns's main crime against education was trying to downplay how the South's entire motivation was slavery. Sure he mentions it as a factor, but the single issue upon which secession hung ... ? Oh that's a fact he tries very hard to avoid. In fact his tone about the Civil War is that it was a period of unpleasantness among brothers who really shouldn't have fought, and when peace finally became possible they mended fences and all was well. (Damn little mention of the Jim Crow that was necessary for white people to start getting along again.)
The clearest example of what I'm talking about, perhaps, is that Burns managed to find the Sullivan Ballou letter, yet he never mentioned the Declarations of Causes of Secession that several states drafted -- which made it 100% clear it was all about slavery. Or when Burns talked about the differences between the Confederate Constitution and the United States Constitution, and never mentioned all the elements that were added to preserve the institution of slavery in perpetuity. Damn peculiar oversight, that he left out the most significant changes in favor of mentioning the Confederate president's line-item veto.
Frankly I can't watch "The Civil War" any longer because I start yelling at my screen. Burns was that oily sort of historical presenter who had an agenda that he was clever enough to conceal from superficial scrutiny -- which tells me he knew the agenda was there.
You are an old for sure. Did you drive your sweet mama nuts singing the theme song at full volume, over and over?Like my geezer little bro and the other 10 year old boys in the hood.
Is that good? I was in West Memphis and was kind of concerned, but being from just east of East St. Louis, I was not concerned enough to avoid the corner store.
Had bfast in West Memphis some time ago. Nice. I'm fond of Wilson, a real company town, but have enjoyed any small place we stop. It is no different than any other place. The locals are not "the other". Just don't go anyplace you wouldn't go at home, like skeevy dive bars.Ummmm.Our town in NorCal had at least 3 of those.Now we have yuppies.
I guess, to these people, nothing quite says "patriot" like having to have your citizenship restored because you committed treason and armed insurrection. I mean, it could happen to anyone!
I saw a few people there that set off my “don’t bother that guy unles you want a scar” alarm, but it wasn’t like it was a hellhole.
Sorry to hear about the yuppies. I’ll take the guy I described above over them any day. Belleville got all the people from ESTL that wanted out. That ran all the rednecks and diet racists out pretty quick. I bought a house there and moved back. Does NorCal have a lot of brown people? They will run yuppies off almost as fast as they will the “melanin free for me” crowd.
NorCal has all kinda people. We are approaching white minority in places..Plus many of the yups are people of pigment.Even places in the central valley, where the dust bowl refugees settled, have jumpin' communities of immigrants who have brought the region their culture, food and holidays.Many families we know who are very conservative have kids and grandkids who are mixed race or otherwise not-white and it is not remarkable.
As Evan himself said, Nashville has really remade it's image as well...so just take the commuter plane between Nashville for a Hot Chicken lunch to Memphis for a BBQ dinner.
I love this bit. I don't even have to hit "play" to start laughing because I know what's coming. Eventually he'll say "dessert" and I shall lose it.
True fact: the Ashokan Farewell isn't even an authentic Civil War song; it was written in the 1980s for an upstate New York folk festival (in Ashokan of all places). In that fashion it's a terrific metaphor for "The Civil War", which was Ken Burns' effort to educate people just enough with details about the Civil War while in reality being a 1980s revisionist version of the whole shooting match. Burns's main crime against education was trying to downplay how the South's entire motivation was slavery. Sure he mentions it as a factor, but the single issue upon which secession hung ... ? Oh that's a fact he tries very hard to avoid. In fact his tone about the Civil War is that it was a period of unpleasantness among brothers who really shouldn't have fought, and when peace finally became possible they mended fences and all was well. (Damn little mention of the Jim Crow that was necessary for white people to start getting along again.)
The clearest example of what I'm talking about, perhaps, is that Burns managed to find the Sullivan Ballou letter, yet he never mentioned the Declarations of Causes of Secession that several states drafted -- which made it 100% clear it was all about slavery. Or when Burns talked about the differences between the Confederate Constitution and the United States Constitution, and never mentioned all the elements that were added to preserve the institution of slavery in perpetuity. Damn peculiar oversight, that he left out the most significant changes in favor of mentioning the Confederate president's line-item veto.
Frankly I can't watch "The Civil War" any longer because I start yelling at my screen. Burns was that oily sort of historical presenter who had an agenda that he was clever enough to conceal from superficial scrutiny -- which tells me he knew the agenda was there.
"Hard to fight with your balls stuck to your leg" is what makes me cry tears of laughter.
This Pulaski girl just donated $20 to Memphis. Sorry our town is so shitty.
I visited Memphis once to attend the musical "Wicked" at the Orpheum. Loved the theatre as it was gorgeous. And ate some of your wonderful BBQ.
I'll get there sooner or later, don't rush me!
The cat AND its turd.
You are an old for sure. Did you drive your sweet mama nuts singing the theme song at full volume, over and over?Like my geezer little bro and the other 10 year old boys in the hood.
True.Then you can retreat to eastern north Arkansas.No snark!Honest!
Is that good? I was in West Memphis and was kind of concerned, but being from just east of East St. Louis, I was not concerned enough to avoid the corner store.
Had bfast in West Memphis some time ago. Nice. I'm fond of Wilson, a real company town, but have enjoyed any small place we stop. It is no different than any other place. The locals are not "the other". Just don't go anyplace you wouldn't go at home, like skeevy dive bars.Ummmm.Our town in NorCal had at least 3 of those.Now we have yuppies.
We were just near someplace in North Tejas that might have been Hog Romance.
Travel is enlightening.
Hear the diving pig has retired.
I guess, to these people, nothing quite says "patriot" like having to have your citizenship restored because you committed treason and armed insurrection. I mean, it could happen to anyone!
I saw a few people there that set off my “don’t bother that guy unles you want a scar” alarm, but it wasn’t like it was a hellhole.
Sorry to hear about the yuppies. I’ll take the guy I described above over them any day. Belleville got all the people from ESTL that wanted out. That ran all the rednecks and diet racists out pretty quick. I bought a house there and moved back. Does NorCal have a lot of brown people? They will run yuppies off almost as fast as they will the “melanin free for me” crowd.
NorCal has all kinda people. We are approaching white minority in places..Plus many of the yups are people of pigment.Even places in the central valley, where the dust bowl refugees settled, have jumpin' communities of immigrants who have brought the region their culture, food and holidays.Many families we know who are very conservative have kids and grandkids who are mixed race or otherwise not-white and it is not remarkable.
As Evan himself said, Nashville has really remade it's image as well...so just take the commuter plane between Nashville for a Hot Chicken lunch to Memphis for a BBQ dinner.