[Peace-discuss] FW: NYT: Confederate/Nazi "Rights" at Duke

[Boyle, Francis A]

Our Illinois Boys

“Oh, I wish I was in Dixie…”
But not if I were Black
Native Chicagoan
Born, raised, living, and teaching in Illinois
The Land of Lincoln
Who freed the slaves
The air is a lot cleaner up here!
North of the Mason-Dixon Line


You can shove your Robert E. Lee
Right up where the Sun Don’t Shine!
Stars and Bars too
Johnny Reb 3
They should all fit together 
Into your Big Confederate Arse
And whistle Dixie while you fart

U.S. Grant from Galena Illinois 
Our Illinois Boys Lincoln and Grant 
Sure Smashed the Confederacy to Hell!

But with Lincoln’s Murder
By a “Southern Gentleman”
They could not put a stake
Through the Heart of that White Racist Vampire
Known as the American South

The Confederacy lives on today
Their Legal Lynching of Black Men
By Lethal Injection
Their shoot to kill policy against Black Boys
In Ferguson Missouri, St. Louis, Florida 
Today’s Confederate States of America

Don’t tell me about the “New South”
I tried to save the lives of 2 Black Men
From being tortured to death
By Jebbie Bush in Florida
Amos King and Johnny Robinson
And Brian Baldwin fried to death by Alabama
All Three R.I.P.

You can stick your “New” South up
Where the Sun Don’t Shine!
Ditto for you Southern Gentlemen
The same for you Southern Belles

You can all fit together 
Into your Big Confederate Arse 
Go right ahead and have your Confederate Ball
Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy
While Whistling Dixie All
This fart’s for you!

How many times do we have to watch
That Racist Garbage Gone with the Wind on TV
Makes me want to puke every time it’s shown
Barf! And barf again!

And PBS/ Ken Burns version of the Civil War
Letting that racist Shelby Foote do his best
To justify the South’s Great Noble Cause
Of warring for slavery
Barf! And barf again!

But our Illinois Boys Lincoln and Grant
Sure Smashed the Confederacy to Hell!
Otherwise, they would still have Slavery
Down South there today
Thank heavens for our Illinois Boys!
Lincoln and Grant
Came to rescue our Humanity!

But now 9 African Americans
Murdered Praying in Church to God
In South Carolina
Where the Stars and Bars Proudly Fly
And elsewhere throughout the Southern Confederate States 
Way to go Johnny and Janie Rebs!
Loyal Sons and Daughters of the Confederacy

What’s the difference between the Confederate Flag?
And the Nazi Swastika?
About Six Decades!
 
70.

Sandra Bland1

Sandra Bland
Our Beautiful Daughter
From Chicago Metro
State of Illinois
The Land of Lincoln
Who Freed the Slaves

Murdered!
By Southern Bastards!
By Southern Goons!
By Southern Thugs!

When will it end?
When will it end?
When will it end?

Francis A. Boyle
Law Building
504 E. Pennsylvania Ave.
Champaign IL 61820 USA
217-333-7954 (phone)
217-244-1478 (fax)
(personal comments only)


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Subject: Re: [Peace-discuss] FW: NYT: Confederate/Nazi "Rights" at Duke

The best account I’ve seen of the matter:

<https://www.commondreams.org/views/2017/06/25/monumental-rubbish-statues-torn-down-what-next-new-orleans>.

—CGE

[PS - I’ve always thought of myself as a Southerner: reared in Virginia (my father would say, “…crops are raised, children are reared…”), fond of New Orleans (a western end of the Venetian cultural diaspora), composed a college application essay on Pickett’s Charge (ordered by R. E. Lee), studied briefly at Duke (favorite college of my classmates at Washington-Lee [sic] High School), I was Quentin Compson (from Faulkner’s The Sound and the Fury) when I moved to Boston - but, like l'abbé Sieyès, "J'ai vécu”…] 


> On Aug 19, 2017, at 11:51 AM, Boyle, Francis A via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
> 
> From: Boyle, Francis A 
> Sent: Saturday, August 19, 2017 11:49 AM
> To: sectns.aals at lists.aals.org
> Subject: NYT: Confederate/Nazi "Rights" at Duke
>  
> For Robin Kirk, a co-director of Duke University’s Human Rights Center {sic!}, the rapid expunging  of the {Confederate} statues currently underway needs to be “slower and more deliberative.”
> Oh sure, the Confederate  War of Rebellion against the United States of America in order   to  preserve slavery only ended in 1865. We need to deliberate about these matters for another 152 years or so. What’s the difference between the Confederate Flag and the Nazi Swastika? About six decades. But what  else do you expect from a “university” founded upon tobacco  that pollutes, poisons and murders our Children in the Confederate State of North Carolina where the Slaves were forced to harvest   the tobacco.
> fab
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> Fab
> Board of Directors, Amnesty International USA (1988-92)
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