I love how, while listing the entire history of your toothless, backwoods genealogy; you impugn the one person in your family who didn't take up arms fighting for the right to continue enslaving an entire race of people.

Oh, The South, how I love your misplaced pride in your shameful past and your unwavering worship of a vagabond Jewish hippie whom you'd have hated had you actually known .

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Posted by ChineseBandit58

Pearland, TX

Member since Aug 2005

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Posted on 2/21/14 at 7:00 am to RockEmSockEm

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I love your misplaced pride and stupidity.

Thank you for being an exemplar of the kind of people who disgust me.

Your thinking you would have been a civil rights activist (in the 21st century definition of the term) back in 1859 is beyond stupid. You may have been a coward, but if not you would have suited up with the boys in gray - right along with the rest of the honorable men of the south.

Thanks for making my point so clear.

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Posted by Mr. Misanthrope

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Member since Nov 2012

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Posted on 2/21/14 at 3:25 pm to RockEmSockEm

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...listing the entire history of your toothless, backwoods genealogy...Oh, The South, how I love your misplaced pride in your shameful past and your unwavering worship of a vagabond Jewish hippie whom you'd have hated had you actually known .

It is comments such as yours that helps put the misanthropy in misanthrope and for which, probably, I will have to hit my knees and rely on the mercy of that "vagabond Jewish hippie".

But for now...

1. You might want to have your meds checked.
2. While we are on the subject of denigrating peoples' "toothless, backwoods genealogy"... As a bird, the Jayhawk does not exist; it is as fabulous as the mythological roc. But Jayhawkers were very real, indeed, in the days leading up to the Civil War. A Jayhawker was one of a band of anti-slavery, pro-Union guerrillas coursing about Kansas and Missouri, impelled by substantially more malice than charity. Jayhawkers were undisciplined, unprincipled, occasionally murderous, and always thieving. Indeed, Jayhawking became a widely used synonym for stealing.

For all this, Jayhawking carried no social stigma. Some prominent, influential and highly respected leaders were associated with Jayhawking. Among them was James Henry Lane, the self-styled 'Grim Chieftain,' a lanky Hoosier demagogue whose biography included terms in the United States House of Representatives and Senate, a penchant for fiery oratory, and a tendency not to repay his debts. Another was New England-born Dan Anthony, an ardent abolitionist and the brother of suffragette Susan B. Anthony, who was commemorated a century later by a poorly planned and short lived dollar coin.

Probably the most overt Jayhawker of all was Charles R. 'Doc' Jennison. In truth, Jennison was unique. A runty, consumptive dandy, originally from New York, he practiced medicine briefly in Wisconsin before coming to Kansas to practice the more lucrative trade of horse stealing. For years, the lineage of many good horses in Iowa and Illinois was said to be 'out of Missouri by Jennison. LINK

I'm wondering how your Civil War pedigree could be symbolized on a license plate Kansas might issue to honor the Sons of those Civil War Jayhawkers of Jennison's ilk?