Word: kerrigans
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Poor Bridget Kerrigan '91. All those insensitive people being so mean to her. All those insensitive people saying nasty things about slavery and racism and hate. All those insensitive people asking her to take her "beautiful" flag out of her Kirkland House window...
...Kerrigan has a right to be proud of her Southern heritage. And I believe she has a right to show it. What angers me is that she has chosen to display her pride in a manner that I as a fellow Southerner cannot comfortably share...
...South, with its culture and all of its emblems, is just as much a part of my life as it must be for Ms. Kerrigan. A statue of general Lee is one of the most prominent landmarks in New Orleans--and I point it out for tourists and visitors just as proudly as I point out the spots where musicians like Louis Armstrong first introduced jazz to the world...
...economic rape of the South perpetrated by the carpetbaggers hurt Blacks as well as whites. By not using the economic influence they brought with them to forge a just peace and an equitable enfranchisement of all Southern citizens (including women, Ms. Kerrigan), they ensured that the bitterness which festered throughout the occupation would erupt once they and the federal troops left. Over 125 years later, that bitterness seems to persist, rearing its ugly head not only in the South, but in places all over the country--like Los Angeles, for instance...
...applaud Ms. Kerrigan for celebrating the South while being surrounded in Yankee culture. But which South is she celebrating? Is it hers, or mine--or ours? Is it the South of Jefferson Davis, Nathan Bedford Forest, Stonewall Jackson and Robert E. Lee? Or is it the South of David Duke, Bull Connor and Jesse Helms...