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Maintenance staffs have been busy cleaning up downed trees, branches and debris left from the wind and massive flooding, along with washed out bunkers and cart paths, severe erosion and flooded turf areas. Saltwater flooding and, to a lesser extent, salt spray are the major concern for lower lying coastal golf courses. Saltwater flooding is never good, but poses an even greater risk in the summer when the turf is actively growing. The extent of damage is hard to predict and will depend on the weather, turf species and cultivar, duration of the flooding and ability to remove the accumulated salts. Toxic levels of sodium and chloride ions will damage most cool season grasses and especially annual bluegrass. Consider the following points as you plan a clean-up and recovery strategy following the storm's aftermath.
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Pop Culture Limbo: How Low Can We Go?By
David Zagorski
California State University, Los Angeles
Volume 6, Number 2, Summer, 2001
When was it exactly that I realized that
pop culture was careening out of control?
Maybe it was during the morning commute, when I turned on my radio, and there on KIIS-FM--the most popular radio station among Los Angeles pre-teens-- amidst the sanitized teen pop of ĹN Sync, I heard these lyrics:
Or was it at work, while checking my e-mail, when I ran across an unsolicited invitation to visit a website that promised, ôHorny young girls do it for daddyö?Feature this, we were both buck naked /
Banginĺ on the bathroom floor
Or maybe it was later that evening when on the advice of friends, I rented ôScary Movie,ö and witnessed the indelible image of a manĺs eardrum being pierced by an erect penis.
Or at 10 PM that same night, when I flipped on the TV, hoping to catch the end of ôThe Green Mile,ö but was treated instead to an HBO documentary entitled ôG-String Divas,ö spotlighting a bevy of exotic dancers who revealed themselves in intimate interviews (followed by lap dances and spectacular feats of pole-dancing).
No, I think it was the ad for 99-cent Big Macs plastered all over the sides of every city bus that passed me by that day, exhorting me to ôBite the big one.ö If even McDonaldĺs has sunk to using crass double-entendres, could this be the beginning of the end?
Is it possible that subtlety is officially, incontrovertibly dead?
Explicit lyrics on teenybopper radio stations; computer advertisements promising incest and pedophilia; toilet humor as a pillar of mainstream cinema; full-frontal nudity and XX-rated dialogue in prime time? Whatĺs this world coming to? Some would argue, ôNowhere it hasnĺt been before.ö
Many criticsŚnot all of them conservatives---complain
that America has recently devolved into a Ĺcarnival cultureĺ or Ĺtrash
culture,ĺ where everything is ôcoarsened, vulgarized and trivialized, where
the meretricious is more likely to be rewarded than the truly deserving.ö
(Gabler, 1998, p. 9; Twitchell, 1992) Others see this trend as having
illustrious historical precedents:
Defenders of todayĺs gross-out festivities point out that the 16th-century
ribald French satirist Francois Rabelais, the coarse commedia dellĺ arte
popular in Italy in the 16th and 17th centuries, and the 19th-century theater
of the British music hall all deflated the pretenses of polite society
with bouts of flatulence, incontinence, and regurgitation. (Doherty,
1999, p. B9)
According to Cooper (1999), ôPart of the answer lies in the simple fact that people have always been attracted to the gross and the sensational. In the 18th century, French citizens took to the streets to witness beheadings.ö (p. 60) Civilized man (and woman), it would seem, has always had a penchant for the violent and the repulsive. ôIn the American tradition, the Puritan legacy of uptightness about bodily functions has made below-the-waist activities a favorite site for lowbrow yuks and highbrow yalps.ö (Doherty, 1999, p. B9)
But there is a difference between the carnival culture of today and that of yesteryear. It used to be that the titillating and the profane were consigned to the peepshows and darker corners. Today, they occupy center stage on the midway.
ôThirty years ago, one would be hard-pressed to find a reasonable person who would have ever expected to hear the phrase, ĹThe President digitally manipulated her genitals,ĺ on the 6 oĺclock news, but Americans have greater and more immediate access to such ônewsö than ever before.ö (Cooper, 1999, p. 60) Schwarzbaum (2000) adds, with a concern laced with irony, ôThis is where we are: we know the nickname of the Presidentĺs penis and thatĺs okay; we also know Eminem sings ôBitch, Iĺma kill you!ö about his mother, and thatĺs okay, too.ö (p. 22)
Kids are being exposed to formerly taboo input at an alarming rateŚtheyĺre becoming virtually unshockable. Kramer (1999) notes that children growing up today have been made witness to more images of explicit sex and raw physical violence than most adults of earlier generations were exposed to in a lifetime. Cooper (1999) suggests that one of the principal sources of this overexposure is the Internet. ôThe cyberworld,ö he writes, ôhas become a showcase for almost unlimited free speech.ö (p. 61)
Cooper feels that the proliferation of graphically violent and sexual websites has had a significant effect on not only the public, but the media as well:
For a sizable portion of the American population, their existence has become commonplace. As a result, our society has become desensitized enough to such content that weĺre willing to accept it in a dramatic format such as film, but not so desensitized that it doesnĺt titillate. Filmmakers, ever the ones to go where no one has gone before, have never had such freedom in expressing their deepest and darkest fears, desires, and proclivities. (p. 60)Although the debasing of popular culture has it roots in many things, including increasing commercialism and the breakdown of the family system, I believe that the combination of boredom and accessibility of information is pummeling us with a lethal one-two punch. Huge advances in technology have shortened our attention spans and made us prone to ennui. In our quest to be amused, gratified and aroused, weĺre becoming immune to satiation. British economist W.F. Lloyd declared in a lecture at Oxford that not only is there ôno assignable limit to the desires of mankind,ö but also that ôin the case of every commodity, its value vanishes at the very instant of satisfaction.ö (Cooper, 1999, p. 62)
Lloydĺs words, spoken almost two centuries ago, are especially fitting in describing the media marketplace of today. The result of our jaded ôbeen there, done thatö view of popular culture is that those who strive to entertain us must go to progressively farther extremes to show us something we havenĺt seen before. Hence the shock value free-for-all in our music, on our TV screens, and in our theaters. Weĺve taken the lowbrow impulses of past centuries and dressed them up in new terminology. Doherty (1999) explains, ôThe turn-of-the-millennium academic buzzword for all this is ôtransgressive,ö an honorific assigned to any assault on refined sensibilities that lays bare the repression at the heart of bourgeois civilization.ö (p. B8)
Take a look at the music scene, for example. The lyrics about ôbanginĺ on the bathroom floorö that I mentioned earlier? Those come from the current best-selling album and single (ôIt Wasnĺt Meö by Shaggy featuring Rick Ducent) in the nation. Who buys the most singles? Teenagers. The song goes on to list several more locations where the ôbanginĺö took place (including in the shower and on the sofa) and features the singer counseling his friend to ôdo a Clintonö and deny any wrongdoing when his girlfriend videotapes him cheating in flagrante delicto.
When I was a kid, Rod Stewartĺs ôTonightĺs the Nightö was considered risqué, even though lines like ôspread your wings and let me come insideö sailed right over my 11-year-old head. But you donĺt have to do much imagining anymoreŚnot with Alanis Morrisette growling, ôůwould she go down on you in a theater?ö and ô..are you thinking of me when you fuck her?ö on Top 40 radio. Listening to the radio with my 14-year-old niece, Iĺm often tempted to reach over and change the station when I hear some of the latest lyrics. Did my parents raise their eyebrows when they heard Donna Summer singing that she ôwants to bring a wild man back homeö?
Just over a decade ago, the furor was over the application of obscenity laws to the lyrics of rapper Luther Campell of the group 2 Live Crew. Those words became a key part of the defense testimony of a group of young men accused of beating and gang-raping a female jogger in what became known as the ôwildingö incident in Central Park. Writer George F. Will thought that the American public should be able to read the lyrics and judge for themselves, so he printed them in his Newsweek column:
ôTo have her walkinĺ funny we try to abuse it /Will (1990) goes on to quote Aristotle: ôWords are what set human beings, the language-using animals, above lower animals.ö (p. 64) If this is the way we elevate language to an art form, perhaps evolution is headed in the wrong direction.
A big stinking pussy canĺt do it all /
So we try real hard just to bust the walls.ö
Television programmers have been lowering the bar as well. In his 1989 book The Evolution of American Television, Comstock writes, ôMuch of what is on the television today would not have been considered acceptable by broadcasters or the public 20 or even 10 years ago. Public tastes and social standards have changed, and television has made some contribution to these changes by probing the borders of convention accompanying each season.ö (p. 182)
The first time I was aware that standards in network television were changing was in the mid Ĺ80s, when the series finale of ôSt. Elsewhereö broke two television taboos at once by having the lead character moon the camera and growl, ôKiss my ass.ö Not longer afterward, ôSaturday Night Liveö ran a sketch in which the sole intent was to see how many times the characters could say the word ôpenis,ö just to rile the network censors. Since then, weĺve seen nudity creep into to prime-time TV on ôNYPD Blue,ö heard Mark Harmon utter the phrase ôShit happens,ö on ôChicago Hope,ö and witnessed a constant stream of sexual innuendo on shows from ôMarried With Childrenö to ôWill and Grace.ö
Today, we have the pre-packaged voyeurism of so-called ôreality showsö such as ôBig Brother,ö ôSurvivor,ö and ôTemptation Island.ö The creators of the latter show test the bonds of committed couples by enticing them with attractive members of the opposite sex. ôThe uncommitted men and women used by the producers are, as David Letterman has pointed out, virtually prostitutesŚpeople encouraged to initiate sex with people they donĺt know.ö (Tucker, 2000, p. 59)
Potter (1998) agrees that network television is constantly testing the limits of what they can get away with: ôMany critics complain about television portrayals, especially those in the early evening when children are viewing, yet each year producers keep presenting language that is a bit more outrageous and sexually suggestive behaviors that leave less and less to the imagination.ö (p. 173)
If broadcast television programming is pushing the envelope, then cable content is ripping the envelope wide open. Schwarzbaum (2000) notes that while the networks, spurred on by declining ratings, are chasing after cable audiences, the cable networks push the limits even farther.
HBO creates brand differentiation by touting, ôItĺs not TV; itĺs HBO.ö Showtime goes HBO one better with its new slogan: ôNo limits.ö HBOĺs ôSex and the Cityö and Showtimeĺs öQueer as Folkö entice subscribers by offering a liberal smattering of nudity and lots of sex talk; routinely taking on such ground-breaking topics as anal sex, the taste of semen, and the joys of golden showers.
Not surprisingly, the line between network and cable television fare is blurring. Network TV accomplishes this in part by pretending to admonish cable programming. The comedy sketch series ôMadTVö recently ran a dead-on parody of ôSex and the Cityö retitled ôSluts and the City,ö and altered HBOĺs tagline to read, ôItĺs not TV; itĺs porn.ö Ironically, the spoof is nearly as visually and verbally graphic as its target. ôMadTVö also ruthlessly skewered Britney Spearsĺ underage come-on ô(Hit Me) Baby One More Time,ö exaggerating the suggestive lyrics and Lolita-esque posturing of the 17-year-old singer. In a parody video retitled, ô(Lick My) Baby Back Behind,ö it includes such lines as ô..too bad our loveĺs a felony, but momĺs real cool (promise!)Śyou wonĺt do time.ö
Are shows such as ôMadTVö doing a public service by pointing out the ridiculously excessive nature of popular culture, or are they merely capitalizing on the trend? Probably a little of both. Either way, the very nature of these satires (and the fact that we nod and grin in recognition) sends the message, ôThereĺs something very wrong here.ö
Nowhere are the changing boundaries of taste more apparent than on the silver screen. Film reviewers and social commentators started noticing a regressive trend in mainstream movies as the end of the millennium approached. Referring to 1998ĺs crop of movies, which included such fluid-happy releases as ôThereĺs Something About Mary,ö ôAustin Powers: International Man of Mysteryö and ôHappiness,ö among others, Cooper (1999) remarked: ôThis past yearĺs (1998) offerings saw a marked increase in the quotient of lurid details that accompanied the sexual and violent content of major films. And moviegoers responded enthusiastically.ö (p. 59)
If anything, the films of 1999 were even cruder.
Suddenly, the words ôgross-out comedyö became part of the pop culture vernacular.
The reason? According to Thomas Doherty, associate professor of film
studies at Brandeis University:
When the box office returns came in for the blockbuster summer of 1999,
the pun was inevitable: Gross-out equaled big grosses. Filthy lucre
rained down on a series of motion pictures that seemed bent on lowering
audience brows to near-Neanderthal levels.ö ôThe ôAustin Powers,ö
ôBig Daddy,ö ôSouth Park, ôAmerican Pieö quartet raked in more than half
a billion dollars on the domestic front. No longer at the cultural
periphery, gross-out comedy is now served up and consumed as mainstream
Hollywood fare.ö (Doherty, 1999, p. B8)
It should come as no surprise, then, that some of the biggest crowd-pleasers of 2000, including ôScary Movie,ö ôThe Nutty Professor 2: The Klumps,ö and ôRoad Tripö took the gross-out ball and ran it for a touchdown. What is surprising is that many critics appear to begrudgingly condone the trend. Newsweek film reviewer David Ansen wrote of last yearĺs Jim Carrey vehicle, ôMe, Myself and Ireneö:
There is always a Ĺcould you believe?ĺ moment in a Farrelly brothers movie. The shot that goes so far beyond any notion of good taste that you gasp before you laugh. Peter and Bobby Farrelly earn their stripes as the four-star generals of gross-out comedy. In an era when gross reigns supreme, this is no mean feat. (Ansen, 2000, p.60)I could be imagining this, but Ansen seems to say this with a tone of indulgent approval, describing one particular gasp-inducing sight gag involving Carrey nursing maniacally at the nipple of a breast-feeding mother thusly: ôDiscomfort, titillation, surprise and revulsion colliding into a comic bombshell that leaves you slightly woozy with laughter.ö (p. 60).
As Ansen (2000) also points out, in todayĺs comedies, ôno orifice goes uninvaded, no bodily substance goes untasted, no obscenity is left unsaid.ö (p. 60) And movie studios obviously know exactly which lurid, envelope-pushing bits are luring viewers into the theaters. Witness the newest trend of studios running canny print ad campaigns based on the word-of-mouth gross-out moments of hits such as ôThereĺs Something About Maryö and ôAmerican Pieö to entice repeat business. Referring to those filmsĺ respective sperm-as-hair-gel and bakery defiling scenes, full-page newspapers ads were rife with winking double-entendres like ôCome again?ö and ôHave another piece.ö
The shock value treatment isnĺt limited to mass-market comedies. The latest film to capitalize on word-of-mouth is ôHannibal,ö a gory film with a notable pedigree: not only is it the sequel to an Academy Award-anointed box office smash, it is directed by one of this yearĺs most respected directors, Ridley Scott. Well aware that the bloody cannibalistic excess of the filmĺs climax has already spawned wide-eyed water cooler conversation, the filmĺs print ads now take on a carnival barkerĺs tone, beckoning in huge 48-point type, ôSee the ending everyoneĺs talking about!ö The accompanying still photo from the film depicts Anthony Hopkins, in the role of the filmĺs titular cannibal, ominously preparing to ladle something (presumably a very nasty something) out of a chafing dish onto the plate of a seated Julianne Moore.
Shocking images in film are as old as cinema itselfŚwitness the scene of an eyeball being gouged in Buñuelĺs ôUn Chien Andalouö---but American adoption of this cinematic tradition is a relatively new phenomenon. ôThe Buñuel-Dali philosophy of grossnessŚto use shock as a weapon against the status quo-hasnĺt died out, but itĺs always ben more at home in Europe than in Hollywood.ö (Ansen, 2000, p. 60)
Ansen characterizes the American incarnation as ôa gesture of liberation as well as offense: a black comic announcement that the cinema and the subculture were going to let it all hang out.ö (Ansen, 2000, p. 61) Cooper (1999) traces the roots of American shock cinema back across the last three decades:
John Waters exposed viewers to some of the more hideous sights in the films of the 1970s, and David Lynch gave us ôBlue Velvetö in 1986. In the Ĺ90s, unsightly aspects of sex and violence were present in ôThe Silence of the Lambs,ö ôSeven,ö and ôCrash.ö But never before have these aspects been so prominent in such popular, mainstream films. (p. 61)ôGrossness,ö adds Ansen, ôisnĺt what is used to be.ö Whereas the shocking content of earlier films was aimed at raising the political and social consciousness of a more sophisticated audience, he complains that the ôstinky-poo outrages of recent Hollywood fare have no higher agenda than coaxing rowdy laughter from randy teenagers. Gross equals grosses; crass is mass market. In America, bad taste is democratic: itĺs for everyone to share and enjoy.ö (Ansen, 2000, p.61)
While noting that toilet humor is the cheapest but most cost-effective weapon in the comic arsenal (to use Ansenĺs words), some commentators take the trend seriously. Doherty (1999) offers this for our consideration: ôThe gross-out comedies warrant serious attention from cultural critics. Even if the massive popularity of the films could be sidestepped, they provide fertile territory for a foray into aesthetic philosophy.ö (Doherty, 1999, p. B8)
In the past, Doherty writes, no matter how far comedy went to poke fun at social conventions and proper manners, it always operated, whether voluntarily or through coercion, within certain limits:
Throughout most of Hollywood history, screen comedy was forced by fiat to adhere to strict standards. The Production Code, the commandments that regulated the moral content and refined tastes of classical Hollywood cinema from 1930 to 1968, laid down the law for clowns and comics. ĹVulgarity is the treatment of the low, disgusting, unpleasant subjects which decent society considers outlawed from normal conversation,ĺ it declared with touching certainty. Vulgarity had to be censored out of motion pictures ôin precisely the same way as in decent groups of men and women by the dictates of good taste and civilized usage. (Doherty, 1999, B8)Today, those strictures have been removed, and filmmakers are exercising a greater degree of creative control than ever before. Mainstream directors are taking artistic risks--- itĺs not just the teen-oriented comedies and splatter films which are changing the boundaries of taste. Sometimes, those risks are lauded, as with Steven Spielbergĺs well-received ôSaving Private Ryan,ö which was hailed as a triumph of filmmaking despite its graphic and realistic scenes of battlefield carnage. Often, however, the excesses of A-list directors serve no moral or instructive purpose, and are met with critical scorn. Take the case of Joel Schumacher, who earned the contempt of reviewers nationwide with the lurid and unwatchable ô8mm,ö set in the seedy world of sadomasochistic sex and snuff films.
For now, however, most eyes are watching the trends in big screen humor. Doherty (1999) sees whatĺs happening in film as a crucible for the trends in all of popular culture:
At such moments, gross-out comedy highlights the schizophrenia of a culture whose most popular entertainment cannot be spoken of at the dinner table or in classrooms without fear of reprimand or lawsuit. In an irony thick enough for the filmmakers themselves to appreciate, the success of the genre reverses the usual relationship between private and public manners: The vile stunt once restricted to the locker room or frat house has become popular entertainment, but to describe certain scenes violates the bounds of most private conversations. (p. B9)Why all of the scrutiny of comedies, you ask? Because despite their occasional ôRö ratings, these films make most of their money from teenagers. Need a crash course in everything you always wanted to know about sex and bodily fluids? Visit the comedy aisle at your local Blockbuster video store, and you can learn about diarrhea (ôDumb and Dumberö), stool samples and penis enlargers (ôAustin Powersö), semen (ôThereĺs Something About Maryö), dildoes (ôSouth Park: Bigger, Longer, and Uncutö), and bestiality (ôMe, Myself and Irene.ö)
Not everyone is up in arms about the current state of affairs in movies. Author/film historian William Paul rhapsodizes in his 1994 Laughing, Screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy: ôIn the free-form give-and-take of its licentious manner, this type of film speaks in the voice of festive freedom, uncorrected and unconstrained by the reality principleŚfresh, open, aggressive, seemingly improvised, and always ambivalent.ö (p. 57)
Like it or not, authors such as Cooper (1999) seem resigned to the idea that the gross-out movie is here to stay: ôThere will always be room for wholesome entertainment in Hollywood. Nevertheless, in a goodly portion of the marketplace, there is a clear tendency to make a spectacle of the disgusting and depraved.ö (p. 62). Doherty (1999) is somewhat more philosophical on the subject: ôMaybe thatĺs a matter of taste, a matter worth contemplating when the line is so thin between what gags make you laugh--- and what laughs make you gag.ö (p. B9)
Entertainment Weekly film critic Lisa Schwarzbaum examined the declining taste level in music, television and film in a risk-taking essay entitled ôLewd Awakenings.ö She admits that in criticizing popular cultureĺs burgeoning love affair with the profane, she is ôbiting the hand that feeds her.ö (Schwarzbaum, 2000) Schwarzbaum isnĺt alone among media pundits in worrying about the effects of this trend. In 1992, Michael Medved wrote that ôthis fascination with filth goes to the heart of the current crisis in popular culture,ö and attributed the gross-out trend to ôthe increasingly influential notion that the most important form of aesthetic expression is that which will shock the public and challenge outmoded standards of decency.ö (p. 114)
George Will, writing in the relatively tame days of 1990, minced even fewer words, and worried about ôAmericaĺs slide into the sewerö (p. 64) Tom Fontana, creator of HBOĺs gritty prison drama ôOz,ö disagrees with that negative assessment: ôI think, as a country, that itĺs not like weĺre spiraling downward so much as it is weĺre being more honest with ourselves.ö (Schwarzbaum, 2000, p. 26)
Director Paul Verhoeven, auteur of such films as ôBasic Instinctö and ôShowgirls,ö resents the ideas that the creative personnel should somehow be responsible for protecting the minds of the American public: ôI feel that I have no responsibility except to myself. Itĺs my moral judgmentŚwhat I can tolerate. And that is what an artist is forŚthe antennae of society. Art should not be something thatĺs nice and friendly and safe.ö (Schwarzbaum, 2000)
Schwarzbaum and Verhoeven, locked in an ideological staredown, both bring up a sticky point: Whoĺs to decide what constitutes art? Was ôShowgirlsö art? Maybe what critics are concerned about isnĺt the obscenity itself, but the lack of political or cultural context. While the European tradition, reaching back to Rabelais, Swift, Chaucer and even the ancient Greek comic playwrights, was about challenging existing structures and stimulating debate, this newest wave of shock treatment seems aimed at younger and more vulnerable audiences.
Of course, I mostly fret about the effects of all of this unbridled excess on the ôfragile little minds,ö of our youngsters (to borrow a phrase from ôSouth Park: Bigger, Longer and Uncut.ö) Iĺm not alone in that concern (see Zuckermann, 1995). But somewhere, deep down, it must me taking its toll on all of us. Are adults becoming unshockable, too?
Perhaps we are prisoners of our own desires and our own inertia, like a pleasure boat headed on an inexorable course toward a whirlpool. Potter (1998) likens our need for increasingly shocking and explicit fare to the effects of a highly addictive drug: ôWhen we build up a tolerance for an effect, we want more. Each time we go back, we require more from the media to get the same rush. With entertainment, we want a more outrageous story line, more attractive characters, more visual effects. If the media can give us only the same kind of messages, we do not feel the rush.ö (p. 274)
Cooper (1999) concurs: ôWith regard to the subject at hand, it seems that the movies will be caught in a vicious cycle. To the extent that certain movie patrons find the most crude aspects of sex and violence desirable, filmmakers will have to go to greater lengths to satiate their appetites.ö (p. 62)
Will (1990) is convinced that we are becoming hardened to our cultural input, and that our social structures are suffering for it: ôCertainly, the coarsening of a community, the desensitizing of a society will have behavioral consequences.ö (p. 64) In failing to present a blunter analysis of this trend, Will suggests that the media are complicit:
There is nothing new about selling the talentless to the tasteless. What is new is the combination of extreme infantilism and menace in the profit-driven degeneration of popular entertainment. This slide into the sewer is greased by praise. When journalism flinches from presenting the raw reality, and instead says [for example] only that 2 Live Crewĺs lyrics are Ĺexplicitĺ and Ĺcontroversialĺ and Ĺprovocative,ĺ there is an undertone of approval. Antonyms of those adjectives are Ĺvagueĺ and Ĺblandĺ and Ĺunchallenging.ĺ (Will, 1990, p. 64)Schwarzbaum (2000) charges that our own passivity makes us complicit as well: ôSo eager are we not the be the kind of rubes unsettled by provocateurs like Lenny Bruce or Richard Pryor, so indulgent are weů of anything that at least doesnĺt bore us, that weĺre unnecessarily tolerant of raunch. The notion of indecency has become obsolete.ö (p. 22)
Maybe adults, myself included, are being hypocritical---after all, no one forces me to watch ôSex and the City,ö or even to subscribe to cable in the first place. After all, arenĺt the media just giving us what we want? Weĺre consumers: we vote with our checkbooks. The duc de la Rouchefoucauld said it best all those years ago: ôHypocrisy is the homage vice pays to virtue.ö Our hypocrisy, however, comes at a steep price. As a society, we heed the rallying cry to save endangered species and to battle the tobacco industry, but weĺre curiously uncritical of the media content we expose ourselves and our children to. As George Will writes, ôOnly a deeply confused society is more concerned about protecting lungs than minds, trout than black women.ö (Will, 1990, p. 64)
Schwarzbaum (2000) alludes to the real danger:
If anything goes, then these days weĺre going particularly fast and far. The fence that separates the decent from the indecent has so many holes in it that homophobes, racists, misogynists, and common potty mouths step through unchallenged. Smirking all the way to the bank, theyĺre indistinguishable from artists and innovators of real, if disturbing, substance. (p. 22)
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Comstock, G. (1989). The evolution of American television. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications.
Cooper, C. (1999, Spring). A look at last yearĺs films: Gross and grosser. Social Policy, 29 (3), 59-62.
Doherty, T. (1999, October 22). Hollywoodĺs Gross-out comedies: Cultural crisis or festive freedom? Chronicle of Higher Education, 46, B8-9.
Gabler, N. (1998) Life: The Movie. New York: Vintage Books.
Harvey, D. (2000, July/August). The godfather of gross-out.
Film Comment, 36, 34-36.
Kavanaugh, J.F. (1999, August 14). Movies mores.
America, 181, 24.
Kramer, H. (1999, October 4). Knitting of the brow: Why high culture is turning lowbrow. Forbes, 16, 189-90.
Medved, M. (1992) Hollywood vs. America: Popular culture and the war on traditional values. New York: Harper Perennial.
Paul, W. (1994) Laughing, screaming: Modern Hollywood Horror and Comedy. New York: Columbia University Press.
Potter, W.J. (1998) Media literacy. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
Schwarzbaum, L. (2000, August 11). Lewd Awakening. Entertainment Weekly, 20-26.
Scott, A.O. (2000, August 8). Behind the gross-out humor, the teenage movie in hiding. New York Times, 149, E1.
Tucker, K. (2001, February 9). Head Games. Entertainment Weekly, 58-59.
Twitchell, J.B. (1992) Carnival Culture. New York: Columbia University Press.
Weintraub, B. (1998, September 17). In Toronto, films lounging on the dark side of humanity. New York Times, 147, E1.
Will, G.F. (1990, July 30). Americaĺs slide into the sewer. Newsweek, 116, 64.
Zuckermann, M.B. (1995, July 24). Forrest Gump vs. Ice-T. U.S. News & World Report, 119, 80.


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Posted By Mark Potok On February 11, 2011 @ 10:07 am In Neo-Confederate | 34 Comments
For much of the last decade, the Sons of Confederate Veterans (SCV) has been roiled by an internal civil war [1] between racial extremists [2] and those who want to keep the Southern heritage group a kind of history and genealogy club.
It's beginning to look like the racists won.
First came the news, originally reported on this blog [3] last August, that the SCV was planning a Feb. 19 march down Dexter Avenue here in Montgomery, Ala., to "CELEBRATE THE BEGINNING OF THE CONFEDERACY" and ensure that it "is remembered and portrayed in the right way." What the SCV meant by "the right way" was made obvious by its website promoting the event, which insists that "the South was right!" and claims that "there is no difference between the invasion of France by Hitler and the invasion of the Southern states by Lincoln."
And now, from the Mississippi Division of the SCV, comes this new gem: The group wants the state to issue a special license plate, keyed like the Montgomery march to the 150th anniversary of the Civil War, to honor Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest [4] — a millionaire Memphis slave trader before the war, an apparent war criminal who presided over the massacre of surrendering black prisoners at Fort Pillow, Tenn., during it, and the first national leader of the Ku Klux Klan afterward, when the Klan's terrorist violence paved the way to a Jim Crow South.
Neo-Confederate [5] apologists in the SCV and elsewhere claim that Forrest has been mischaracterized, that he was a good man who disbanded the Klan when it became violent. Mississippi SCV member Greg Stewart told The Associated Press [6] that Forrest had sought "Christian redemption" and ultimately rejected the Klan. "He redeemed himself in his own time," he said. "We should respect that."
That is false. Forrest, for all the fawning attention he's received from the historical revisionists of the neo-Confederate movement, was certainly a brilliant and highly successful cavalry general — but he was also a homicidal bully.
Before the war, according to a newspaper account at the time, he was known for personally bullwhipping slaves who were held stretched out in the air by four other slaves. Women slaves were reportedly stripped naked and whipped with a leather thong dipped in salt. Former slaves later backed up these accounts.
In 1864, Forrest demanded the surrender of 580 mostly black troops at Fort Pillow, warning them that otherwise, "I cannot be responsible for your fate," even as he stealthily and illegally improved his position during negotiations under the white flag. Then, when the Union commander refused, Forrest unleashed his men. "The slaughter was awful," an appalled Confederate sergeant later wrote his family. "I with several others tried to stop the butchery and at one time partially succeeded, but Gen. Forrest ordered them shot down like dogs, and the carnage continued." Numerous surviving Union soldiers reported hearing Confederate officers saying that Forrest had ordered them to "kill the last God damn one of them."
Forrest was known for personally executing deserters or Confederates who fled the field. As the war came to a close, he came upon a father and son near Selma, Ala., and decided they were deserters. He ordered them shot and their bodies left out for two days before burial with a sign, "Shot for desertion," hung above them. Several days later, it emerged that the pair had, in fact, been entirely innocent.
After the war, even as former Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee was urging fellow Southerners to "promote harmony and good will" in the reborn Union, Forrest initiated hard-line resistance to Reconstruction and secretly became the Klan's first national leader. It is false that he disbanded the Klan because it became violent. In fact, Forrest disbanded the Klan — after lying to Congress about his membership — only after its work was done and it had come under severe criticism. Klan terrorism had by then already made it impossible for blacks and Republicans to vote.
Both the Montgomery march and the Mississippi license plate request are part of a whole series of events planned by the SCV to commemorate the sesquicentennial anniversary of the Civil War. None of them give so much as a nod to the horrors of slavery or to the civil rights movement that finally liberated the South a century later — and, in fact, the Montgomery neo-Confederate parade, in a particularly ugly and unmentioned irony, follows the same route as the end of the famous 1965 Selma-to-Montgomery voting rights march led by Martin Luther King Jr.
None of this is much of a surprise if you take a look at the national SCV website [7] promoting the series of events, including the Montgomery march, that are meant to commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War. There, a series of writers attempt to make the case that slavery had nothing to do with the war, another utter falsehood. In fact, as virtually all serious historians agree, the South seceded because it became obvious that Congress would not allow the extension of slavery to the new Western territories, threatening the slave lobby's dominance. The Texas Declaration of the Causes of Secession, for example, said plainly that the free states were "proclaiming the debasing doctrine of equality for all men, irrespective of race or color," and added that blacks were "rightfully held and regarded as an inferior and dependent race." Alexander Stephens, vice president of the Confederacy, said as much in his infamous 1861 "Cornerstone" speech: "Our new Government is founded on exactly the opposite idea; its foundations are laid, its cornerstone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man; that slavery — subordination to the superior race — is his natural and moral condition."
But these historical facts are of no interest to the SCV. Instead, while most Americans remember the bloodiest war in American history as the nation's most trying moment, the SCV is busy promoting a Southern past that never was.
34 Comments To "Once Again, Racism Rears Up in the Sons of Confederate Veterans"
#1 Comment By Nomi On February 11, 2011 @ 1:00 pm
I think we can expect a big revival and celebration of the book (Mitchell) and the movie, "Gone With The Wind."
Those charming Confederates were like Rhett and Ashley, right?
#2 Comment By ROBERT VON BARGEN On February 11, 2011 @ 1:31 pm
In some ways, the election of Barack Obama has had the same effect as lancing a boil. All the pus is coming out now. By coming out all at once, the toxic racism can be exposed and dealt with in a way not possible before.
#3 Comment By buz t On February 11, 2011 @ 1:44 pm
Way to go little Alec.
#4 Comment By David Spencer On February 11, 2011 @ 4:35 pm
Great article, as are all of the Hatewatch updates. I believe Robert Von Bargen has it right when he observes that President Obama's election was like lancing a boil. I pray that the pent-up hate & racism that is spewing out doesn't result in a national tragedy.
#5 Comment By sarah elliott On February 11, 2011 @ 5:43 pm
Well, SPLC…you do some awesome research and I must commend your morality in making it public.
I continue to be shocked at this countries regression into times past instead of progression and change to be something new and exciting and BETTER!
All because of the fear of the color of a persons skin…Nathan Rutstein said,"prejudice is an emotional commitment to ignorance". That's what we've got working against us in this society. The answer is EDUCATION.
#6 Comment By Ruslan Amirkhanov On February 12, 2011 @ 6:45 am
There is a huge difference between the invasion of France and the invasion of the "Confederacy." France did not start hostilities against Germany in the manner that the rebels did at Ft. Sumter. Moreover, France was a sovereign nation, whereas the Confederacy was nothing but a bunch of hypocritical, slavery-loving, Bible-thumping, treasonous dandies.
#7 Comment By Sam Molloy On February 12, 2011 @ 8:12 pm
Naomi, I think it is indeed time for a revived Gone With The Wind. Maybe in 3D IMAX. Unless I missed something, it is against slavery and racism and historically accurate. It's also a whole lot better than the plotless computer generated exploding demo derbys that Hollywood is grinding out today.
#8 Comment By Lucas On February 12, 2011 @ 9:29 pm
Those who continue to push racism so many years after the civil rights were passed are just desperate for a scape goat for their personal weaknesses. Thy are trapped in the past. But its good when they air their minds because afterwards they will join the rest of human race.
#9 Comment By Jordan On February 13, 2011 @ 12:40 am
"Once Again, Racism Rears Up in the Sons of Confederate Veterans" A neo-confederate group that's RACIST *gasp*. Historical revisionists make me laugh, especially when they claim that the facts (like that the confederacy was founded on slavery, as it said in their constitution) are wrong. Doesn't detachment from reality make someone certifiably insane?
#10 Comment By JosephineSouthern On February 13, 2011 @ 7:43 am
The only racism here is the writer of this article and their sheeple minions. There is nothing wrong with honoring Gen. Bedford Forest on a license plate. The Fort pillow event was NOT his fault and he was exonerated by Washington DC trial court hearing. Same with the KKK. If we listed Gen Forest sins side by side with Sherman and Grant, Forest would be4 the lesser of the other 2 evils.
#11 Comment By jgt2598 On February 13, 2011 @ 3:00 pm
"The only racism here is the writer of this article and their sheeple minions." Really, how is the writer of this article racist? How do you explain this: "No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, or law denying or impairing the right of property in negro slaves shall be passed" "In all such territory the institution of negro slavery, as it now exists in the Confederate States, shall be recognized and protected be Congress and by the Territorial government; and the inhabitants of the several Confederate States and Territories shall have the right to take to such Territory any slaves lawfully held by them in any of the States or Territories of the Confederate States." -Source, Constitution of the Confederate States of America.
#12 Comment By Jonas Rand On February 13, 2011 @ 3:49 pm
Nazi Germany's invasion of France cannot be likened to that of the Confederacy by Lincoln. For starters (as Ruslan noted above), France was already a sovereign country and did not "secede" from the invaders' country (as the Confederacy did). Secondly, Lincoln invaded the CSA because he wanted to maintain the Union's federal status, and keep the states together, but also because they were treasonous. It is correct that Lincoln did not initially wage war against the Confederacy with the goal of the abolition of slavery. However, the reason the South seceded and created the "Confederacy" was because they feared that Lincoln's election as president would lead to the emancipation of the slaves. Additionally, there was no parallel to the puppet government in Vichy, or a Dixie Philippe Petain, because the Confederacy was not split between occupied and "free" (I put "free" in quotation marks, because Petain would virtually enforce the Nazis' policies in South France and the imperial colonies, and he was just a pawn of Hitler).
@JosephineSouthern What group (that you define as a race) do you think Mark Potok (the author) is racist against? As for your post's point, Nathan Bedford Forrest was the first Imperial Wizard and instrumental in founding the first KKK. The court hearing was, of course, in a time in US history where the Confederates' policies were basically allowed to be implemented in the South anyway after reconstruction. Blacks were almost constantly persecuted there and still worked on cotton fields, living as lower-caste citizens; if they were unemployed, they were even worse off. The judicial and legislative systems were generally sympathetic to White supremacists and former Confederate traitors. They even went so far as to make Confederate VP Alexander Stephens, yes, the same one who made the speech proclaiming that the CSA's "corner-stone rests, upon the great truth that the negro is not equal to the white man", a US senator. So it is indeed possible that Forrest was exonerated in a US court. However, he founded the Klan, which was a violent terrorist group almost from the beginning, and which he disbanded a long time after it perpetrated its first violent action. So, I don't know what you're talking about.
#13 Comment By Jonas Rand On February 13, 2011 @ 3:58 pm
The SCV is not a Neo-Confederate group in particular, but a genealogical Southern heritage organization for people who can trace their family lineage to a soldier in the Confederate military. Apparently, there are some Neo-Confederate racist members, but this is not the purpose for its existence. The Sons of the American Revolution is another one of these organizations.
#14 Comment By Ian On February 14, 2011 @ 9:40 am
Can we please ban the word "sheeple" from our collective vocabulary?
#15 Comment By Mitch Beales On February 14, 2011 @ 11:10 am
Seven score and 10 years ago our forefathers brought forth on this continent a new nation conceived in slavery and dedicated to the proposition that white folks are better than black folks. That's got a nice ring to it doesn't it? I wonder if the Sons of Confederate Veterans have considered forming a confederacy with the Sons of Horsethieves and Whoremongers?
#16 Comment By ruben On February 16, 2011 @ 1:01 pm
and just think,the south claims to be the cradle of god fearing christians in this country…..what a sick joke they are!
#17 Comment By Jordan Thomas On February 18, 2011 @ 10:22 pm
Hey ruben. Not all southerners are neo-confeds, be fair, don't generalize.
#18 Comment By Mitch Beales On February 22, 2011 @ 12:27 pm
And not all southerners claim that the south is "the cradle of god-fearing christians in this country" Jordan. I think ruben's point is that the neo-confeds claim this. What's your point?
#19 Comment By jgt2598 On February 22, 2011 @ 2:52 pm
My point is don't generalize, that's exactly what hate mongers like the neo-confeds do, don't sink to their level or we're no more relevant then them. When people make statements like "the south claims", or "the north is" or "liberals think" it assumes that an entire group of people feel one way. This is untrue unless it is in regards to some sort of idea-centered, freely-joined organization (like a political party, or an advocacy group, or even a hate group), so one can say "democrats support…", or "republicans endorse", or "the SPLC thinks", but not "liberals support" because this is no better than saying "all blacks are…" or "all whites are…" So again, my point is, don't sink to their level.
#20 Comment By T.Vincent On March 17, 2011 @ 1:37 am
The SCV is a fraternal organization, not a racist organization! No jgt2598, it is not the KKK! Yes, we are proud of our ancestors who fought for four long years against the Yankee invader!. Membership is limited to male decendents of Confederate soldiers! Our motto is "Heritage, not Hate"! If it will make you feel any better, I also belong to the SUVCW (Sons of Union Veterans of the Civil War). We decorate Civil War soldiers graves and are currently planning Sequitennial events! …and no I am from Oregon, not the deep South! SCV member # 568
#21 Comment By Harry Allen On October 13, 2011 @ 11:57 pm
Dude, go to a local SCV meeting, they're open to the public, and that would put to rest most of the rubbish in this article. As the the Confederate battle flag, hmm remember those northern slave states that the Emancipation Proclamation exempted? read it sometime.
T.Vincent is right. The Confederacy was not trying to overthrow the American government, it simply declared its independence, as America had done from Britain. And if you look deeper into the main SCV website you will see that the SCV issued an official proclamation condemning the use of the battle flag by hate groups and various other racists. And like T.Vincent, I too have Union ancestors, of which I'm just as proud.
#22 Comment By mco On August 31, 2012 @ 9:19 am
Most of the racist hate that I see comes from the SPLC not the SCV..
just sayin.
#23 Comment By TL On September 11, 2012 @ 9:46 am
The SPLC and The SCV, SUV, NAACP and on and on I could go with my list. We need to always keep an eye on eachother.
I can point to racist remarks in all these groups at one time or another. Gee guy's at least be truthful to yourselves. I have seen good and bad come from these groups, but is it the groups fault or individules in the groups? It's not for me to say. There is always going to be someone who has their own ajenda. We all have to be diligent in the watch on any organized group, from the KKK to the US Government.SO, keep it up fellow Americans, its what I love about this country.
#24 Comment By CR On October 2, 2012 @ 8:50 pm
If the Civil War was about slavery then why was it that Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation (which contrary to popular belief did not free any slaves) in late 1862? The War of Northern Aggression had been going on for 2 years at that point. Why was the 13th AoA (which did free the slaves) ratified in 1865 after the war was over?
I'll tell you why, the Confederates were putting the Clodhoppers from up north the beating of their lives and Blood-Thirsty Abe was attempting to cause a slave uprising in the South. After the War of Northern Aggression was over, Dishonest Abe decided he wanted to further punish the Southern States by attempting to cause a Nat Turner like rebellion. The fact of the matter is that there were actually more Abolitionist groups in the South, slavery was indeed fading, and the war had nothing to do with slavery other than Abe-dolf Lincoln and the Unionist thugs wanted to ignore the Constitution (which they did), legislatively steal as much as they could from the South (also done), and was in fact much like King George when the South simply wanted their independence.
@JosephineSouthern: These clowns will never get it.
@ Mark Potok and the SPLC: Get some integrity.
@ the Bigoted Southern-Hating Zombies Infesting the Comments: Get a clue.
#25 Comment By D Howell On November 29, 2012 @ 6:46 pm
I think that whoever wrote this article is as full of crap as a Christmas turkey!! You don't really know what you are talking about and need to get your facts straight before you write something condemning an organization that apparently you don't know anything about.
#26 Comment By D. Smith On December 12, 2012 @ 11:14 am
OK first racism was a fundamental part of society North, South, East, and West in the U.S. of the 18th and 19th centuries. It is not to prove one side right and one wrong it is just fact no revisionist historian north or south has the high ground here.
In the south slavery was an institution and as much as some people paint a paternal "master" "slave" relationship (which was more common than the very very rare abuser or beating slave owner) these men still sold human beings and for the right money would break up a family mothers from childern and husbands from wives. Thier "beloved" slaves also lived under the threat of death if they should ever leave thier kind "master".
So, the benevolent freedom loving North came down and freed these poor innocents right? HA ahh you need to read more than propoganda. A large portion of northern wealth had been built on slave trading and was the foundation for the industrial noth that would come. Also the north benifited greatly from the cheaper prices gained by raw materials from the slave owning south. If a slave did escape the south he could go to the North where he was lovingly accepted welll not in Indiana where Negro immigration was forbidden or anywhere else after Dred Scott (does that ring a bell). Of course there was the Back to Africa movement which proposed shipping freed slaves back to Africa (where they thought they belonged) and buying land there so they could start over again. This is now the country of Liberia. Oh a great of the Back to Africa movement none other than good old Honest Abe Lincoln himself.
"I will say then that I am not, nor ever have been in favor of bringing about in anyway the social and political equality of the white and black races – that I am not nor ever have been in favor of making voters or jurors of negroes, nor of qualifying them to hold office, nor to intermarry with white people; and I will say in addition to this that there is a physical difference between the white and black races which I believe will forever forbid the two races living together on terms of social and political equality. And inasmuch as they cannot so live, while they do remain together there must be the position of superior and inferior, and I as much as any other man am in favor of having the superior position assigned to the white race."
yours truley Abe Lincoln aka the great emmancipator.
Yet still this stupid diafication of Lincoln continues.
Lincoln suspends hebeas corpus ( aka the right to a free trial). Institutes the new concept of "total war" dead civillians are ok now. He jails hundreds of newspaper editors and reporters and yet still no one tells the truth.
Now just to get things straight the ORIGINAL KKK not the current or the one after 1877 was formed in response to the Union Leauges…..ever heard of them?? Probably not but they were more horrible in there destruction, theft, and terror of white and black southerners during reconstruction than the KKK ever was and some Union Leauge supporters actually dressed as Klansman and commited crimes they knew the klan would be blamed for.
In fact in a 1930′s recording of former slaves done by the U.S. government some actually claimed to have riden with the early Klan to help protect southen homes from Confederate and Union deserters and the infamous Union Leauge members. Look I could go on but just don't fill your heads with the worst type of hate…Righteous Indignation! Read everything not just what you agree with and then defend your opinion. I am a Jeffersonian free state political thinker and not a Lincoln Federalist. I am not a racist or a nut job. I think the constitution is a great document and should be abided by (it is not) but it is not a holy document. Any document calling a man 3/5ths of a man was not written by the God I worship. Man I said a lot more than I started too. BTW end the slavery in The Sudan and Somalia that exist today!!
#27 Comment By Wayne Hylton On December 25, 2012 @ 12:17 pm
I attended a local festival a few years ago in my home town in Hampton Roads, Virginia. The SCV had a table where they sold their revisionist history books, and tried to solicit donations to "set the record straight." The worst offense was that they were stamping "War Criminal" on five dollar bills. This sickened me.
#28 Comment By Southern by the Grace On March 22, 2013 @ 4:31 pm
Wayne Hylton, ever heard the saying 'history is written by the victors'? The revisionist history books are those written from the anti-South perspective. My ancestors, NONE of them, owned slaves or were "aristocrats" or "dandys". Lincoln was indeed a war criminal and invaded the the southern states committing atrocities the likes of which no-one could have expected. There was a whole lot more to the run-up to the Fort Sumter incident than aggression by the South. And further, the impact of the War of Northern Aggression was the crippling of the South for decades and arguably to this very day. The fawning over Lincoln is what is almost as disgusting as the fawning by the media over Obama. One idiot even likens Obama as being a lanced boil in the US. The ignorant liberals don't seem to realize that a black man who was a conservative would get more votes in the South than in the North. There are a half dozen black men I would vote for in a heartbeat for President, and they are all conservatives. The bigots that are alive and well today are just like they were 150 years ago, living above the Mason-Dixon line.
#29 Comment By FLOYD MOORE On April 28, 2013 @ 2:33 pm
I am a person who is in the process of joining the CCV, I am really disappointed at the remarks made about the organization above. I am 75 yrsof age and very proud of my origional home near Raleigh N.C, I was not raised in the hate that aoppears in some of this writing. Why would anyone object to honoring his decendents? What is wrong with "live and let live"? We could criticize many organizations such as the Masons but what would that accomplish. Lets all just live in peace and harmony as best we can. Floyd Moore
#30 Comment By Harry Keeton, Chaplain SCV On May 5, 2013 @ 6:18 pm
Just for the record and this would be the focal point of the entire conversation and blog aforementioned, Slavery was not the cause of the N/S war, plus, The Northern States were tyrannical in their own rights. That being said, The southern states seceded from the Union based in part and almost fully because of Taxation.. History is a much darker story about the United States and above the Mason Dixon line than most ppl think. I'd give a Rebel Yell if a revolution was to, and it will, begin over Taxes. God Bless America and Southern Pride go Arm in Arm when there's heritage and not Hate.
#31 Comment By William On May 6, 2013 @ 12:10 am
I agree that the actions of Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest as being appalling in how he behaved at Fort Pillow and his lack of humane regard towards his slaves lack any form of compassion. But one of the main aspects that the Son's of Confederacy is to balance the very obvious demonizing of the brave fallen veterans of the War of Northern Aggression. We have blacks in the sons of Confederacy and we have strong Sothern Demarcates who voted for President Obama. I on the other hand belong to the Regan Conservative crowd and vote for the party of emancipation (Lincoln's Party) the Republicans. Not because I'm a racist, but I believe in less government. I would have voted for any Black candidate like Alan West or Herman Cain if given the chance. Like any large organization if you try hard enough you will find a few weirdoes or jerks; kind of like Al Gore's Dad who was a Grand Wizard in the KKK.
But on the other hand, it is true that Abraham Lincoln created an Army through a draft in-order to invade their fellow southern states that disagreed with insurmountable taxes and tariffs of their agricultural industry that the North needed and wanted through the cotton, rice, sugar cane and indigo industry. The loud minority group of abolitionist was making an uproar that took hold at the expansion of slavery in Western States. What is never taught in the public school system is the abolitionist did not want the expansion of slaves in the west because they wanted the states to be for free for white citizens. Another miss understanding of history is how the emancipation proclamation was received in the North when it was introduced to congress. Unlike Steven Spielberg film "Lincoln", many Northerners were concern what to do with free blacks coming to northern states. In fact, Some of the Northern States wanted nothing to do with the call to arms for Lincoln's army if it was for the sole purpose of ending slavery many Northern States did not think that was a worthy cause for men to die for. They came up with the login to preserve the Union.
Slavery was not invented by the Confederates it was in existence ever sense the beginning of the start of America. It lasted longer in the North than that of the South. The end of slavery in the North varies between 80 to 40 years before it ended in the South. The End of slavery in the North was not because people disagreed with slavery but because it was no longer needed. When the South Succeeded from the north it was due to their anger of the hypocrisy and self righteous Northern States trying to tell them what to do and put unreasonable punishment on an industry that was needed by the same people and region that was administering the punishment.
Speaking of hypocrisy, how did the Federal government treat the American Indians, any better than the South treated the slaves? At least the south tried to keep the slaves alive for work. The Federal Government just killed Native Americans.
#32 Comment By fiddledeedee On September 11, 2013 @ 8:39 pm
No need to put "neo" ahead of this supposed "movement". The SCV has existed at least 100 years, so it is hardly some trend that has just popped up out of nowhere like this extremely biased and uninformed article suggests. Nor do they sit around sipping tea and spewing hatred of black people, whilst missing and proclaiming the imagined glories of slavery. The author is confusing them with some Nazi aryan nation skinhead. The SCV is a geneological society of descendants of veterans that tour and preserve battlefields, raise money for monuments, raise money for charities, scholarships, and other such completely "racist" endeavors. People of all races are encouraged to join and indeed, people of all races are members. The SCV is solely interested in Forrest's service in the war, and in no way support, or even share the same opinions of the inferior white trash that is the KKK. When is the last time you encountered a black KKK member, or millions of dollars of KKK money donated to causes in need? Exactly. If there is a racist member of the SCV, that is because there are racist people everywhere. They in no way represent the views of the SCV as a whole, or even the majority of its members. I know because I am a Daughter and the SCV is the corresponding mens version. Furthermore, it is not this mans place to make claims that our goal is anything resembling a hate group. In fact, the mission is to help others. Secondly, to research ancestors while touring historical civil war places of significance. I won't make assumptions about the authors of the article, and some comments, that claim I and my fellow members have hidden reasons for joining unbeknownst to them, such as hatred and/or a guilt complex. The same consideration is truly of no significance to anyone at the end of the day. I just thought I would ATTEMPT to enlighten some people writing laughably foolish articles and comments.
#33 Comment By Robbert On October 7, 2013 @ 2:44 am
The North so loved the Negro that they marched South to free them, then after the war posted "Negro & Irish need not apply" at every place of bussiness they could. They allowed parts of WV & KY to keep slaves for SEVERAL years after the Civil War…so much for freedom,huh?
#34 Comment By Albert Bryan On October 9, 2013 @ 6:40 pm
Thank you Robbert. I am sick of hypocritical history makers. Can we review how the slaves got to the US to begin with and what shipping companies brought them here? How about the percentage of Confederate Solders that owned slaves? Tariffs anyone? 40 years preceeding the war? Indentured servants? Conscripted immigrants? What honest Abe really believed and said. What happened to the free slaves when they went north?
Article printed from Hatewatch: http://www.splcenter.org/blog
URL to article: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2011/02/11/once-again-racism-rears-up-in-the-sons-of-confederate-veterans/
URLs in this post:
[1] internal civil war: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2005/summer/uncivil-war
[2] racial extremists: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2001/spring/neo-confederates
[3] originally reported on this blog: http://www.splcenter.org/blog/2010/08/31/scv-plans-to-celebrate-racist-confederate-government/
[4] Confederate Gen. Nathan Bedford Forrest: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/2004/winter/a-different-kind-of-hero
[5] Neo-Confederate: http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-files/ideology/neo-confederate/the-neo-confederate-movement
[6] told The Associated Press: http://www.miamiherald.com/2011/02/10/2059458/proposed-miss-license-plate-to.html
[7] SCV website: http://confederate150.com/Resources.html
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Writer Ted Hughes wrote poetry, non-fiction and children's books. He was married to poet Sylvia Plath who committed suicide a year after he left her.
Victor Hugo is a celebrated French Romantic author best known for his poetry and his novels, including Les Misérables.
Anthropologist and novelist Zora Neale Hurston was a fixture of the Harlem Renaissance before writing her masterwork, Their Eyes Were Watching God.
Cuban writer Guillermo Cabrera Infante is known for many acclaimed works, including Tres Tristes Tigres. He won the Miguel de Cervantes Prize in 1997.
Award-winning, bestselling American novelist John Irving is known for works like The Cider House Rules and The World According to Garp.
Shirley Jackson was an acclaimed American writer known for the horror story "The Lottery," as well as longer works like We Have Always Lived in the Castle.
E.L. James is the pen name of Erika Leonard, author of the best-selling erotic novel Fifty Shades of Grey.
An American novelist and naturalized Englishman, Henry James was an important figure in transatlantic literary culture of the day.
P.D. James is an English mystery writer best known for her series of novels featuring fictional detective Adam Dalgliesh of Scotland Yard.