So what’s next?

[Belsnickel]

(06-10-2020, 09:01 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: I used to work Coachella and then Stagecoach.  I did it every year from 2002 to 2015, when I was promoted and couldn't take that kind of time off at once anymore.  I always marveled at the incongruity of people professing to be super patriotic while simultaneously flying the flag of a group that tried to destroy the United States.  I will say this though, the women at Stagecoach were amazing looking.  It almost made me want to listen to that shitty music.  Almost.

I live about 30 minutes from West Virginia and the BSA district which I am a commissioner for includes that neighboring county, so I am often making trips over to work with those units. The number of Southern Crosses I see over there is astonishing. Here is this state that was created solely because they were against the CSA, and I see more of those flags over in that county than in my own.

I'm in an interesting place, though, because my county didn't want to secede and probably would've been in West Virginia if not for the natural boundaries. We also have the Lincoln homestead and cemetery, which is where Abraham Lincoln's father and grandfather were born and raised (and yes, they had slaves). But, following Reconstruction and through the Jim Crow era and the Civil Rights movement, they enjoyed erecting monuments and naming things after Confederates in a romanticizing way to make the black community uncomfortable. Right now there is a discussion about a high school that opened here in 1956 and was named after a Confederate general that happened to die nearby while serving with Stonewall Jackson. If that year doesn't ring a bell, it is right after Brown v. Board of Education that mandated integration of the schools.