I went to see a really good band tonight. Great musicians.
Right up until they played Dixie for their closing number.
"This one's for two of my great-great grandfathers."
I walked out.
Right up until they played Dixie for their closing number.
"This one's for two of my great-great grandfathers."
I walked out.
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"I don't go in that bar since they eighty sixed me for throwin' a drink that the waitress fixed me at a customer who asked for "dixie" i don't suffer fools and i don't play "Dixie" https://youtu.be/c889wHbwUzs?si=nu3jFo0m79KvLxd5
"I'm sorry. They don't mean it that way."
Listen. I'm a 56 year old white Southern woman. I know what Dixie stands for. If you don't mean it "that way," DON'T PLAY IT.
"No. But I couldn't stay inside while they were playing Dixie."
He winced. "Yeah. I'm afraid that's about to become the new national anthem."
I dialed my Southern accent all the way up & smiled, "You know, my great-great-granddaddy's, also from the civil War-"
He smiled back.
"-on the Union side & I did not appreciate hearing Dixie."
I got to hear about how he voted for Kamala. About his black/gay/Jewish friends. About how liberal they are.
"Your audience is only going to hear an anthem of white supremacy."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhSzuhdIkuE
We talked for a while & I kept channeling my mom who would look racists in the eye and say "I find that offensive."
I hope that they take Dixie off their playlist.
Bless their hearts.
I took time to come up with a script and an approach that I thought would make him hear me.
If you have privilege, this is the time to use it.
(Also, it has always been the time.)
thank you for the story — and for standing up for decency in this world.
🙋🏼♂️ 🩵
I too am so sick of the excuses, “he didn’t mean” should be taught to every child, every woman, every minority as the quintessential excuse of excuses to project blame away from the perpetrator.
If you are/were ignorant, now you are not. Stand up for your Humanity or STFU.
MA'AM! Thank you.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhSzuhdIkuE
I will be using that.
If you had just stopped at the my grandfather, he would have kept smiling.
That's really all that matters. They decided to play something explicitly racist and just assumed the people who would be bothered would know they didn't 'mean' it. And the people who loved it...well.
(I just googled Dixie and wooooow)
https://go.bsky.app/6dCw92a
Sorry it happened and LOVE how you handled it.
He’s had fantasies about joining the Sons of Confederate Veterans with his brothers and going to meetings to raise hell about their use of that battle flag.
Because the answer is "White supremacists, who want to rehabilitate the confederacy," and he should own that he's helping pave the way.
If he dosen't want the confederacy rehabbed, he needs to stop efforts to do so.
I'll fire up a private browser on a vpn and have a look now.
Can't have that in my online history 😒
If you want an acceptable thing on your history, try "Union Dixie". It changes the words to be from a Union soldier.
Well done.🤎
History says
They shived
Caligula
and sank his boats
Problem solved
Call your Reps and Senate 202-224-3121
And we know exactly what type of person sings it and why.
This is a know your history moment.
Actions that make a difference 🤗
Rattlesnakes and alligators,
Right away, come away, right away, right away.
Where cotton's king and men are chattels,
Union boys will win the battles,
Right away, come away, right away, right away.
Good job speaking up
When you need to explain the irony, or add a disclaimer so people don’t get the “wrong idea…
It becomes no longer ironic, and indistinguishable from support.
It's pretty obvious how Trump won. All the smart people are dealing with the wrong problems.
He got votes, he won.
The smart people were too busy with getting everyone to agree with everyone else on everything.
Work the problems.
You let them become victims to this clown. And now you still can't believe how he did it.
I did try and teach my children better. To research for the real truth. To look deeper than the system shown to them.
Again. My apologies for my poor behavior.
Make
Tom
Lehrer
Topical
Again
They probably wouldn’t idolize them so much
But then again
Pretty much everyone knew what a disgusting human Trump is
And he still got elected
So I guess I didn’t realize how many stupid people there are
TheSouth’s agricultural economy required slaves
Northerners who bought slaves instead of hiring employees were cruel for the sake of it…just like MAGA
PlantainOwners didn’t care how they made others suffer to make themselves rich AF…just like the UltraRich now
Every Confederate state that published a statement of the causes for their secession mentioned slavery. My state, Georgia, did so 11 times in the first paragraph. No author with any integrity would state otherwise.
I think you may be the one who *doesn’t* understand the lyrics.
It was a direct response to
Neil Young’s songs Southern Man and Alabama. The reference to Wallace was ambiguous (according to band interviews) and the basic meaning of the song is “don’t blame all of us for Southern racism or slavery.”
I believe that Lincoln would have been far more hardline than President Johnson.
At this point, the south is merely Dumbfuckistan...
Top headline of March 2025.
' Federal marshals arrest Donald Trump and Elon Musk for international terrorism'
😁
“he did the only thing that a loyal man in his neighborhood could do - harbor and pass along Union men who were making their way to the Federal lines.”
Southern Claims Commission report on one of my ancestors.
So yes, and no.
https://youtu.be/PlvhHIzOEpU?si=fL1yP87IUd9QlPy1
Rather appropriate now I think.
Guess what? I'm ok with not being a fun person sometimes.
You had a chat! Hope it got through someone’s thick skull.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/40XmE4b0oBNjRpJF6dMX3P?si=0OjUi48uRo2It1ftAlJJIw&pi=pe-WrZMsQPScf
If you spot any other problematic choices, I'd really appreciate it.
In early 1984, Wakeford was fired from Death in June for "bringing his 'right-wing leanings into the group'"; at the time he had been a member of the National Front (UK).[3] Further on, Douglas P. would abandon any overt...
Bullshit.
Changed the whole feel of gathering in a bad way.
What band was this?
The only appropriate “Dixie” song
Right now, these days, that shit is intentional and pointed.
Having a German mother who grew up in Nazi Germany makes me rather sensitive.
I belonged to military history re-enacting groups and we would march. I quit one group when they thought goose-stepping would be appropriate.
"Away down south in the land of traitors, rattlesnakes, and alligators,
Right away, come away, right away, come away.
Where cotton's king and men are chattels, Union boys will win the battles,
Right away, come away, ..."
AWAAAAY
AWAAAAY
EACH DIXIE BOY MUST UNDERSTAND
THAT HE MUST MIND HIS UNCLE SAM
Also, who is this kid? Saturday mornings in college I was out cold and hung over. He's up calling to talk about vocals in classic rock vs theater.
it also includes considerably more accurate historical observations such as "where cotton's king and men are chattels/the union boys will win the battles"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvjOG5gboFU
No, it's a sign you can't let go of that mentality and don't belong in America in 2025. It's disgusting we let it go on this long.
Schools in Americus didn't integrate until 1970
The school fight song was Dixie:
"Away down South in the Land of Cotton,
Old time there are not forgotten,"
I was an adult before I learned...
1/
...just how false a history I was taught in GA public schools
We're facing a huge campaign to rewrite history that has many roots in the searing resentment of Southerners that they were forced to give black people equal rights
Social security originally didn't cover farm & domestic workers b/c...
...the only way Roosevelt could pass it was to exclude the only jobs black ppl could easily get in the South b/c Southerns didn't want black people to receive benefits
While I NEVER heard the N word used at home I grew up hearing it used in public routinely & casually
We must not go back to that
And more recently I’ve ditched Scottish Societies in the South for the same reason. Bigotry.
Fascism
If you have one fascist or nazi at a table of 10.
You have 10 Nazis!
Don’t delude yourself!
You are war with Trumpism!
But good on you for walking out