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To: Rambi who wrote (46546)	2/6/2000 11:52:00 AM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Thing is that resentment and hatred is based on a past we and they can't change, as is this Southern manifesto in all its glorification of a time that is no more. Well, that certainly is the crux of the problem in many parts of the world today...the survival and continuance of "old grudges" of various magnitudes... ...and we have our fair share of it up here in the Frozen North...different cultures...same old story...

To: Rambi who wrote (46546)	2/7/2000 10:30:00 AM
From: Tom Clarke	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

Hi Rambi, I don't get upset with the League's "over the top" language. It is merely a reaction to similar, if not more inflammatory language that emanates from elitist quarters. I'm not with them all the way. They are unnecessarily harsh with Martin Luther King, whose endeavors I believe were truly heroic. And like Joan, I have trouble with the idea of an "Anglo-Celtic culture." I don't find much else with which to disagree. I'm glad there are people like Michael Hill around to counter the radical elements in the NAACP (which was once a noble organization) and the many other lefty agitator groups. I find it interesting that black friends of mine are mostly neutral on the flag issue. I suppose the ruling cultural elite would sniff that "they haven't been educated" in the subject. It bolsters my theory that the flag issue is a top down phenomenon, coincidentally (yah right) erupting in an election year. I think the attitude of most black Americans is summed up best by Mrs. Emily Haynes, an elderly black woman who was a sharecropper's daughter and now weaves and sells baskets in a tourist bazaar in Charleston, SC. Her stall is surrounded by stalls that sell all manner of Confederate paraphernalia. The writer Tony Horwitz asked her how she felt about her neighbor in the adjoining stall selling rebel trinkets. She answered, "They can remember that war all they want, so long's they remember they lost." Jackson and co. can learn a lesson in tolerance from this gracious lady.