Is interesting that American civil war reenacting did not really become much of a hobby before the late 1960's or in to the 1970's. Culturally its seems that it proly could not have happened as the Am. Civil War was generation-ly still too close in time and too raw up to that time for some people's figuring out their familial transference of their own ancestral causing or fighting of the civil war. It is still rough for some.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <dhamiltony2k5@...> wrote : I heard it explained once in reference to the long history of central Europe that it takes seven generations to clear from lands a bad blood of violence between peoples. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : I know,I grew up with it. As one guy who was being asked about the Redneck Shop in the town where I grew up, Laurens, SC said: "I thank the South was right back then (referring to the Civil War) and I thank the South is right now today." In case anyone wonders what the Redneck Shop was, here is the Wikipedia entry. Too bizarre, especially when you consider the ownership deal: Redneck Shop From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The Redneck Shop was a white nationalism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_nationalist and neo-Nazi http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Nazism clothing store in Laurens, South Carolina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laurens,_South_Carolina, which sold T-shirts, bumper stickers, and Ku Klux Klan http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan robes, among other things. The building also featured a "Klan Museum" in a back room. It was decorated with posters of President Warren G. Harding http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warren_G._Harding, whom some allege was a Klan member, though many historians refute this.[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop#cite_note-beacham-1[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop#cite_note-2 Building ownership The shop was located in a downtown Laurens building that formerly housed the Echo Theater. The building is currently owned by the Rev. David Kennedy, a black http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American civil rights leader and Baptist pastor. The shop has acquired a great deal of publicity due to this unusual arrangement.[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop#cite_note-horrors-3 The building was formerly owned by Michael Burden, who was himself a Grand Dragon in the Ku Klux Klan. However, Burden found himself impoverished http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poverty after leaving the KKK. Burden then approached Kennedy and apologized for his racist past, agreeing to sell Kennedy the deed to the Redneck Shop with the provision that Burden would be allowed to run the shop until his death. Kennedy accepted the deal.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop#cite_note-counton-4[3] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop#cite_note-horrors-3 In 1996, a white man from West Columbia, South Carolina http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/West_Columbia,_South_Carolina, drove his van into the Redneck Shop as a protest against the store's racism. Kennedy said that he later told the man that, while he obviously does not agree with Howard's views, he does not feel that violence is an appropriate response.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop#cite_note-counton-4[5] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop#cite_note-cbs-5 As a meeting place for white supremacists In addition to selling merchandise, the Redneck Shop had also been used as a meeting place for white supremacists; in 2006, it was the headquarters for the Aryan Nations http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aryan_Nations' World Congress. Also, in 2008, neo-Nazi John Taylor Bowles http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=John_Taylor_Bowles&action=edit&redlink=1 utilized the building as the headquarters for his 2008 presidential campaign.[4] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Redneck_Shop#cite_note-counton-4 ________________________________ From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 2:42 PM Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yee Haaa! MJ, yours is a fair and perceptive comment down at the bottom on this, yep I know the problem. I traveled, camped, and rode cavalry along with secessionists for years in civil war re-enactments and heard all their states rights stuff to justify enslaving people. Was like going to Klan recruitment meetings throughout the hobby for some groups within the hobby. It is particularly bad at re-enactments hosted more in the South and border States. Sometimes they have troubles fielding a convincing re-enactment for lack of people who will turn out as Union re-enactors. It can be really rough wearing blue even just for re-enactment. Up North re-enactors frequently volunteer to change costume/sides to balance things and help make an event happen. Folks are much more likely to get in to the heads of what was going on in re-enactments that happen closer to the North because hobbyists experiment more willingly with being in the shoes of either sides. It is just plain more nutty with re-enacting down South. That kind of follows State lines of demographic educational standards as to how nutty people can be about the lost cause. ---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : "What, closing our civil government offices for some not understanding the constitution and rebelling against their country?" Yep that's what we do around here. "Just forgive their ancestors for their ignorance and poor judgment about the larger progressive flow of equal rights for all in nature of this larger country." You speak in ignorance of the collective vibe around here. There are still people who think that the secession was a damn good idea and that folk like Stonewall were patriots, Southern patriots. More to the point, the politicians are scared to death of ending such anachronisms for fear of incurring the wrath of ignorant red neck voters. ________________________________ From: "dhamiltony2k5@... [FairfieldLife]" <FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com> To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com Sent: Monday, May 11, 2015 10:31 AM Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: Yee Haaa! What, closing our civil government offices for some not understanding the constitution and rebelling against their country? Some people suffering from familial epigenetic inheritance stress should just work at forgiving their relations for making past mistakes in judgment . >> >> >> Folks now do not have to be responsible for their ancestors poor lives. Just forgive their ancestors for their ignorance and poor judgment about the larger progressive flow of equal rights for all in nature of this larger country. Jai Abraham Lincoln, LBJ and the civil rights voting laws of the 1960's and the larger dharma of these United States. >https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MxEauRq1WxQ > >> >> > > >---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, <mjackson74@...> wrote : > > >State Offices Here Closed for Confederate Memorial Day > > >COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - State offices across South Carolina are closing for >Confederate Memorial Day. > > >The holiday itself was Sunday, marking 152 years since Southern Gen. Stonewall Thomas "Stonewall" Jackson died after he was accidentally wounded by his own troops. > > >But since May 10 was on a Sunday, the holiday for state workers is on Monday >this year. >Several other states in the South also have official holidays to honor the >Confederacy, although the dates vary. > >
