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Tonight, as you savor your Mint Juleps and join in with friends and family to welcome the New Year, don’t forget to sing the traditional New Year’s anthem, “Auld Lang Syne.” And be sure to sing “Dixie” as well, because the two songs complement each other.
Everyone knows that “Auld Lang Syne” is a song of remembrance of treasured days:
Should auld acquaintance be forgot,
and never brought to mind?
Should auld acquaintance be forgot
and days of auld lang syne?
For auld lang syne, my dear,
For auld lang syne,
We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne
Loved ones we have lost still touch our hearts, and they will always remain a part of us because we will remember them. But present-day relationships make life worth living today, and the song includes this pledge to those who are close to us now:
And here’s a hand, my trusty friend,
And gie’s a hand o’ thine;
We’ll take a cup o’ kindness yet
For auld lang syne
“Dixie” also recognizes the bonding of past and present by celebrating the history that is a vital part of who we are:
Oh, I wish I was in the land of cotton,
Old times there are not forgotten,
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.
In Dixie Land, where I was born in,
early on one frosty mornin’,
Look away, look away, look away Dixie Land.
“Dixie” also includes this promise to go forward while remaining true to the past:
I wish I was in Dixie, Hooray! Hooray!
In Dixie Land I’ll take my stand
to live and die in Dixie.
Away, away, away down South in Dixie.
Away, away, away down South in Dixie.
These songs celebrate our connections with our loved ones of the past and present, connections that make us mindful of things beyond ourselves — connections that make us human. In an age when loyalty, patriotism, and love of one’s own are attacked as anachronisms, when our only concern is supposed to be maximizing the bottom line, and the only values that matter are those of the deracinated, isolated psychopath, it’s good to remind ourselves that stubborn human nature persists despite the pressure from our handlers. Let’s take a cup.
Brock Townsend on 31 Dec 2010 at 7:45 pm #
Yes, Sir!
roho on 01 Jan 2011 at 12:41 am #
“I wish I was, in a land forgotton”
“Whoopin slaves, and pickin cotton”
“Look away, Look away, Look away, Dixie land.”
My Alabama Rendition.
Nate on 01 Jan 2011 at 8:47 am #
Dixie? A song that celebrates slavery and treason as well as terrorism against the United States? Are you serious?
Ole Johansen on 01 Jan 2011 at 10:51 am #
@rohoandNate
O’common,why don’t you Jewish trolls leave us alone in this New Year.
You have plenty of other media outlets to spread your antiwhite messages.
And remember:Antiracist is a codeword for antiwhite.
Do you or your tribesmen have any plans to emigrate to your (own)homeland in the New Year?
In that case,god tur.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 01 Jan 2011 at 3:05 pm #
roho,
So in addition to your other accomplishments, you’re also a plagiarist.
HarrisonBergeron2 on 01 Jan 2011 at 3:06 pm #
Nate,
Strange — I just re-read those lyrics and don’t see a thing about slavery. Clearly, your ability to read between the lines is superior to mine.
Does the Star Spangled Banner celebrate the genocide of American Indians?
Weaver on 01 Jan 2011 at 5:41 pm #
Roho’s no troll. Real people don’t always fit the politically correct mould.
His comment was in bad taste though.
Nate on 01 Jan 2011 at 9:33 pm #
HarrisonBergeron2,
You are right the song doesn’t explicitly mention slavery but I think the references to the land of cotton and “old times” not being forgotten are a veiled reference to slavery because we all know who was out there picking it during those “old times” by the threat of a whip or worse. We should be singing Battle Hymn of the Republic and celebrating the war hero Abraham Lincoln, not a bunch of traitors who waged an illegal war with America so they could keep their slaves.
Kirt Higdon on 02 Jan 2011 at 1:37 am #
BHOR is militaristic garbage; I refuse to sing it. And Dishonest Abe was a tyrant and arguably the worst of all US presidents – certainly the greatest killer of Americans.
Kyle K on 02 Jan 2011 at 4:29 am #
The Israeli national anthem was what I would rather sing instead of “dixie”!
Weaver on 02 Jan 2011 at 10:14 am #
HB2,
From a Lee Brothers cookbook (not verbatim):
Celery Julep
10 ounces celery (about 4 large ribs)
1/2 cup plus 1 tablespoon sugar
1/2 teaspoon celery seeds
1/4 teaspoon salt
12 ounces (1.5 cups) Kentucky bourbon or Tennessee whiskey
1/4 cup plus 2 tablespoon fresh lemon juice (from 2 to 3 lemons)
12 ounces (1.5 cups) seltzer water or club soda (optional)
Celery tops, for garnish (optional)
1. Add celery, celery seeds, and 1 tablespoon of sugar into food processor. Process until loose puree. Strain & press pulp to remove as much flavour as possible. You should have ~ 1/3 cup.
2. Add this and the remaining sugar to a small saucepan. Warm over medium heat until sugar dissolves. Should end with ~1 cup celery syrup (which will last in refrigerator under plastic wrap for 1 week).
3. Fill six 9-ounce julep cups to the rim with crushed ice. Add 2 ounces bourbon, a tablespoon of lemon juice, and 2 to 2.5 tablespoons of celery syrup to each glass, and stir. Top up with selzer and garnish with the celery tops.
Ernest on 02 Jan 2011 at 1:27 pm #
“”We should be singing Battle Hymn of the Republic and celebrating the war hero Abraham Lincoln”"
Don’t forget to sing “Lift Every Voice and Sing” & worship the ultimate American hero MLK!
Bob Armstrong on 02 Jan 2011 at 1:39 pm #
Well Nate, your grasp of history is less than perfect. First off let’s be clear. Less than 2% of the whites owned slaves in the south. Secondly, slaves were owned in the north too.
Thirdly, of the two countries to take part in the war of southern independence, only the United States Flag flew on ships hauling slaves all over the world for sale.
Next, isn’t it interesting that none of the Confederate leaders were ever brought to trial for their “crimes of treason”? The answer is obvious. In a court of law they would have been found innocent of all charges.
The south did nothing to the north that the colonies hadn’t done to the mother country of England in the first war for independence which founded this country.
Besides, the concept of the legality of succession was actually being taught at the US Military Academy at West Point prior to and right up to the time of the War of Northern Aggression. (The Commandant of West Point at that time was none other than Robert E. Lee.)
But back to slavery. I find it interesting to note that slaves were used by Lincoln to help repair the White House while he was president. On the other hand, Jefferson Davis adopted and had as a member of his family a young black boy while he was President of the Confederate States of America. Quite a contrast.
Also, it’s interesting to note that a number of blacks owned slaves, both in the north and the south during this time. But of course that is conveniently forgotten because it doesn’t fit your view of the south as it really was.
Also note that U.S. Grant’s wife owned slaves, as did many northern army officers. Oh no, must not mention that because it takes away the high moral ground that the north needs to justify its invasion of another country that just wanted to go its own way while allowing the north to go its own way too.
And the fact that many blacks took up arms to fight for the south should not be mentioned either. It would add to the lack of moral superiority of the northern cause.
But wait, what about the 9th article of the Confederate Constitution? Why that pesky section sure puts a damper on our charge that the South wanted to perpetuate slavery. Oh, you haven’t read it? Well it simply said that no more slaves could be imported into the south, thus effectively ending the perpetuation of slavery in the Confederate States of America, had it survived the invasion from the north.
Don’t you think the cotton Gin would also have contributed significantly to the demise of slavery too? And other farm labor saving inventions of later years would also have placed that despicable institution on the trash heap of history where it belonged.
But I digress. Back to your misconceptions of the south.
Let’s talk about “Honest Abe.” This was the same man you called a war hero. The same man who had the army destroy over 300 newspapers that opposed “Honest Abe” and his war. Their editors and publishers were jailed, without charges, some of them for years, just because they exercised their constitutional right of free speech. Yet papers in the south that opposed succession were allowed to continue in business because, in the south, they believed in recognizing the right of free speech. Quite a contrast, don’t you think?
“Honest Abe” was also the man who wanted to arrest the Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court at the time of the war because he said that Lincoln’s suspension of the writ of habeas corpus was unconstitutional.
“Honest Abe” was also the man who had a congressman from Ohio arrested and deported to Canada because he stood up on the floor of the U.S. Congress and spoke out against “Honest Abe’s” war.
Of course no one points out the incident when a newspaper reporter from Maryland asked “Honest Abe” if he was going to let the south go. “Honest Abe’s” response was to reply with a question. He asked the reporter where would the US government get the revenue to continue running. Now that was a fit of honesty. But as we say here in the south, “Every now and then even a blind hog will root out an acorn.”
But the south fired the first shot you say? Well, it seems that the first shot was actually fired by old “Honest Abe” himself. He lead the leaders of Charleston to believe that he was sending a column of ships to Fort Sumter to take the garrison out of the fort. But instead he reinforced them and sent them additional supplies, thus going back on his word. Oops, that little bit of history sure doesn’t reinforce the picture of an honest “Honest Abe”, so perhaps we should just slide that under the rug and ignore it.
I could go on and on about the antics of “Honest Abe”, but you get the picture. Or at least any reasonable person reading this gets the picture.
The bottom line is this, Nate. You need to get a better grip on history before you go about pontificating and blustering. It will save you lots of intellectual embarrassment later on.
Weaver on 02 Jan 2011 at 2:15 pm #
The Confederate Constitution also explicitly defended slavery. Many were afraid of what might happen to all the freed blacks should slavery be ended. And we see with Reconstruction that it was indeed Hell.
Davis wrote in his Farewell Address:
Bob Armstrong on 02 Jan 2011 at 3:34 pm #
The ending of slavery, if handled the way that Robert E. Lee handled it, would not have given us these problems.
Robert E. Lee never owned slaves. but his wife inherited slaves when her father died. So, even while the war was ongoing, Robert E. Lee made sure that the inherited slaves learned a craft so they could support themselves, and then he freed them.
To the best of my knowledge, these freed slaves presented no problems because they could support themselves. Thus they were not only useful and vital but were respected members of the community too.
And when one looks at the slave laws of the north vs. the south, the south comes off kinder and gentler. (I am not calling slavery either kind or gentle. I am not for slavery in any form. But I think the south should not be singled out when the north was much worse.)
When the draft was opposed in the north in New York City, they hung over 100 blacks from lamp posts in protest.
Why do you think that the underground railroad did not stop in the north? It went all the way to Canada because the northern states would return slaves from the south if caught before they reached Canada.
Slavery is not being defended here. But absolving the north of all responsibility and given the moral high ground is not right when they were even tougher on their slaves then the south was.
And as far as Harriett Beecher Stowe’s novel about life in the south on the plantation is concerned, she never lived in the south, nor even visited the south and never saw a southern plantation. She was no authority on slavery in the south, yet everyone who was anti south believed and perpetuated her myths and lies. And people are still doing that today, in spite of recorded testimonies of former slaves to the contrary.
Again, I am not defending slavery here. But neither will I defend lies for the sake of feeling good about myself, as others would do.
As Horace Greeley once said, truth is the first casualty of war. And in the war against the south truth was not only the first casualty, but continues to be such.
Weaver on 02 Jan 2011 at 7:14 pm #
Keep in mind that Lee freed his slaves outside Virginia. Also, originally only whites could vote in the US.
I have some unPC quotes of Lee…
No society is perfect, certainly not our present-day US; but we Southerners should set our own standards and not allow others to set ours for us. Farming tends to encourage virtue and piety, and the South was an agricultural society. We have much to take pride in.
We did indeed treat our slaves well, for the most part. You can go and see slave houses even today in their neat little rows. They look better than what many blacks live in today, especially blacks living in Africa and Haiti. The South was Christian.
Even had slavery endured longer, additional laws would have been passed protecting slaves.
There’s a present-day danger of the South being redefined to be something it never was. There might be attempts too at using Southerners against other Americans in a divide-and-conquer, which we should be wary of as well. That’s not to say I embrace the mass migration into the South. Ah, I mention to be wary because I’ve seen some odd sentiments among Southerners, and some odd websites, claims, and Confederate shirts. I don’t know of any actual conspiracies…
Were it not for D.C., the race-relations would be much better, but different.
To fully understand the South I think… one needs to acknowledge that race exists, though not that race is everything. The South was again Christian and held a Christian understanding of race, e.g. Dabney.
Weaver on 02 Jan 2011 at 8:16 pm #
Another perspective is the South didn’t create slavery. Western Europe is largely what ended slavery, and as the West (America) declines, slavery will likely spread again. It still continues in Sudan.
The Greeks, who were slave owners of course, would have viewed our employees as slaves, or at least Aristotle did (his Politics).
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Also reg. race, it’s largely only Western Europe & colonies who claim race doesn’t exist. No other society in the world seems to believe such things as fully. That again isn’t to say race is everything.
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A strange example of Confederate history being rewritten: The Modern Falsification of a Civil War Photograph.
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I do not like slavery and certainly do not wish it restored, even though I don’t find it as aweful as does our society in this day.
Weaver on 02 Jan 2011 at 8:27 pm #
There’s much more to the South than slavery though. This is not what HB2 is celebrating here, to be sure.
Weaver on 03 Jan 2011 at 5:26 pm #
As you say though the North was not really concerned for blacks. Lincoln largely only used blacks for his war and political aims.
Anyone condemning the South with regard to racial matters must also condemn the North with equal force. There’s no high ground.
Regardless, just as Obama’s ancestors were never slaves, most of the present-day American ancestry is not from the Civil War Time period. America is like Rome in taking in foreigners: just as the Amerindians were displaced by the English colonists, the original Americans have been displaced. At current trends, there’ll be as much Amerindian ancestry as Civil War ancestry before long.
I have some statistics on this, but they aren’t specific enough to know when the percentage will fall this far.
White guilt will continue to be sure, even though the whites who committed these “crimes” won’t hardly exist anymore.