Dowdell apologizes

“Prominent men testified that the order became popular because the whites felt that they were persecuted and that there was no legal protection, no respectable government. General (later Senator) Pettus said that through all the workings of the Federal Government ran the principle that “we are an inferior, degraded people and not fit to be trusted.“ General Clanton of Alabama further explained that “there is not a respectable white woman in the Negro Belt of Alabama who will trust herself outside of her house without some protector . . . . So far as our State Government is concerned, we are in the hands of camp-followers, horse-holders, cooks, bottle-washers, and thieves . . . . We have passed out from the hands of the brave soldiers who overcame us, and are turned over to the tender mercies of squaws for torture. . . . I see Negro police—great black fellows—leading white girls around the streets of Montgomery, and locking them up in jails.
“The Klan first came into general prominence in 1868 with the report of the Federal commanders in the South concerning its activities. Soon after that date the order spread through the white counties of the South, in many places absorbing the White Brotherhood, the Pale Faces, and some other local organizations which had been formed in the upper part of the Black Belt. But it was not alone in the field. The order known as the Knights of the White Camelia, founded in Louisiana in 1867 and formally organized in 1868, spread rapidly over the lower South until it reached the territory occupied by the Ku Klux Klan. It was mainly a Black Belt order, and on the whole had a more substantial and more conservative membership than the other large secret bodies. Like the Ku Klux Klan, it also absorbed several minor local societies.“
—The Sequel of Appotamox, Fleming, Walter Lynwood, 1874-1932

The Sequel of Appomatox pales the civil rights movement in atrocities perpitrated by the United States government,the freedman,black troop and yes the lynchings of white citizens.Auburn Guy you were there at the killings in Phillidelipha,Mississippi that means that you are a remorseful klansman or an FBI informant who agitated the klan to do this so that President Johnson could reinvade the south violating possee cumatatos.Will your abolishionist movement be heading to Sumaia,Rowanda,Ethiopia et al to free the slaves of Africa today?Should I be offended by the African symbles and destroy anything African because I am offended,I think not for that is against the law and it is not a moral justifaction for such actions.I know that reading a lot of books to know both sides of an issue but google and wikkapedia is just a synopsis of thousands of books put into a few simple parragraphs that sir is niether history nor is it understanding of very complex issues as well as the facts and circumstances surrounding them.

Please read the books for books can be your friend.Have a great day.————————————————————————————————————————

Auburn Guy, did it ever occur to you that much of what “outrages” you is connected to this “silly episode”? Indeed, I wonder how “silly” you would have found it if you had been one those women alone in an isolated place when a large black man appeared and stole flags from graves? You talk about the county “being destroyed by meth”, well most of those who are victims (or not) of drugs are minority males. How did these women know that flags were all that Dowdell wanted? A lot of gangsta-types wear “bling” in the shape of crosses or other religious symbols. That doesn’t make them St. Francis of Assisi!

The fact that many “responsible” people in the “black community” are more concerned with the “evils of the Confederacy” rather than the TRUE evils of crime, drugs, illiteracy, illegitimacy and despair that afflict their fellow blacks speaks volumes about why this country is in the shape that it is.

Finally, yes, the Confederacy lost - but the reason that the people of the South FOUGHT - individual liberty and freedom from a tyrannous and all powerful central government - are still with us and worse now than in 1861. Jefferson Davis stated that the time will (has?) come at which the causes of the War of Secession would have to be addressed AGAIN. See where we are going as a nation – into the despotic embrace of socialism and communism - and ask if there isn’t a reason WHY the establishment continues to focus on slavery as the reason for the War rather than unfair and confiscatory taxation, federal interference in the lives of its citizens and outright federal military tyranny against the States and the People. Socialism and communism produce misery, oppression and slavery. They have failed everywhere that they have been tried. And yet, America continues down that same failed path while the People’s attentions are kept on “crises” like “racism” and issues such as “multiculturalism” and “diversity”. That’s what the frauds in Washington do: keep your attention on non-existent crises and spurious issues while they take your liberty. The NAACP along with the Jacksons and the Sharptons and the Dowdells are willing pawns in that old shell game.

No, I was in Philadelphia, Mississippi the summer the three civil rights workers were killed—by rebel-flag guys. A former student of my father found Emmett Till’s body, and there were certainly lots of rebel flags that showed up at Roy Bryant’s trial.

Some guy picking up sticks and bits of cloth is pretty low on my outrage scale.

I get outraged by childhood hunger in my state. I get outraged because lives in Lee County are being destroyed by meth. I get outraged because Northern timber companies own so much of Alabama and pay no taxes. I get outraged because my neighbor’s “little boy” had his legs blown off in Iraq.

The Civil War ended nearly a century-and-a-half ago. We lost. I think we can move on now.

My family has been in Lee County (where Auburn is located) since 1832. My ancestors were planters, fought in the Civil War, and all that. My kids go to Auburn public schools. I know or have met everyone involved in this silly episode, from Arthur Dowdell, the ladies in the Daughters of the Confederacy, and the local political leaders.

It strikes me that the internet connections have made this whole episode much more interesting to people “off somewhere” than it is to Auburn people. My kids—who are fully involved in academics, athletics, and extra-curricular activities in city schools—tell me that no one at school has even mentioned it.

Another item of interest. I believe that there are white members of the Dowdell family buried in the cemetery. I’m not sure that any of the CSA Dowdells are there. Since slave owners regularly brought young women up from the quarters, it could be that Councilman Dowdell picked up a flag from the grave of an acestor.

Well, certainly the FIRST and GREATEST example of bigotry (racism is a Marxist term) comes from Dowdell, a black. Whites from the Mayor and the City Council to the UDC did not see fit to remove him from office or charge him with a crime, so I fail to see any bigotry (or “racism”) in the “white” response.

As for those posting here: point out what has been said that is untrue. Proper criticism whether of a white or a black is not “bigotry” but simple fact. Among those addressing the falsity of the whole “slavery” issue is a black man, Thomas Sowell. Among those talking about the horrendous mess that is the ghetto culture and black inner cities is a black educator, Walter Williams. Where is the bigotry or “racism” there?

Blacks can say and do what they like to whites and are not considered “racists”. Whites cannot even defend themselves or make accurate and substantiated criticisms of blacks without being considered “racists”. That is called a “double standard” and by its nature, the double standard is unjust and mendacious. Neither does it matter whether the double standard favors whites OR blacks.

I am not ashamed of one thing I’ve written here. That you see “racism” in the considered opinion of those who know all about the double standard as evidenced by the “dog and pony show” run by clowns like Dowdell - another Sharpton and Jackson wannabe - merely reveals your ignorance. And if you are as “educated” as you say, obviously it is an ignorance by choice - though God knows, American education is rife with political correctness and stupid liberal shibboleths.