After they finished, I went back inside & found the member of the band who had introduced the song.
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 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."
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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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g73sUvX3Kg4
I know it’s not who they mean but… like… come on. That’s who rebelled, it was the enslaved.
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.)
Guts are female.
The problem is systemic.
He’s buried in Andersonville; where he died of starvation/disease held captive by the men who played that song. His brother my ggggpa fought and lived but another brother died.
Good for you!!!
YMCA blasting inside and out in the parking lot. Noped right DF out.
My $vote$ don’t jiggle jiggle it folds.
It also does not get wasted by supporting hate.
I've had similar experiences here in Indiana, and I have heard "we don't mean it that way" several times. "We're Dukes fans, we just like the General Lee."
Which I enjoyed as a child at the time, pleasant Robin Hood style adventures. (1/2)
Surely, they didn't mean it that way.
Took me a long time to realize why I had issues with the show.
The kid in me loved the "David vs Goliath," sticking-it-to-the-man story. But the trappings of misogyny, racism, class warfare, and intelligence stereotypes really got under my skin.
https://www.lincolncollection.org/discover/ask-an-expert/qa-archive/was-%E2%80%9Cdixie%E2%80%9D-really-lincoln%E2%80%99s-favorite-song/
How do you think the white supremacists in the audience hear that song?
Not all.
Social determinant outcomes are still worse for Black & non-Black LGBTQIA individuals than for white LGBTQIA individuals.
And the use of reparations in this context — not appropriate.😶
Confronting these moments head on, as gently as we can, matters. Also, your mom sounds like a badass.
thank you for the story — and for standing up for decency in this world.
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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.
Ford's is better than my dad's "I'm glad I'm not in the land of cotton/things go there from bad to rotten."
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.