WE RESERVE THE RIGHT TO REFUSE SERVICE TO ANYONE

[vetwife]

Yes in big bright letters in a bowling alley in Georgia.
My daugher came home from school and said the pep rallies are segegrated by choice, I guess. What with the hate and all !
Black on one side..White on the other.
Big black and white brawls over Dixie Outfitter shirts which is nothing but hate displayed on wearing apparell.

Any questions? See where we are going? Hatred..Pure hatred and the white kids are trying to turn my daughter into a bigot. Well, it just may look like more homeschooling for her.

[drdigi420]

1. ignorance, plain and simple

There is a LOT more tolerance and a LOT less ignorance in the City of Atlanta, compared to the rest of Georgia. It's almost as if the I-285 highway is an enlightenment barrier.

[slojim240]

2. "The tone is set at the top"

America spiraling out of control and downward. Clinton presided over the last, great America mirage.

[vetwife]

3. You got that right check out ths link

http://www.proudrebel.com/rebel/rebshirt.htm

[alphafemale]

9. Tacky Graphic. But I've no fault to find with Gen. Lee or Traveler

Lee was an honorable, good man by all counts.

He hated slavery.

He just felt more loyalty to his state than the Union.

I think he fought for the wrong cause but I still admire him.

They buried the dead from the Civil War in his Yard.

Do you know this?

Arlington Cemetary was started on Lee's property so that he would have to see the graves every day.

Really. I mean damn.

Can you imagine burying all the damage of this Iraq fiasco at Crawford?

Damn.

[vetwife]

15. The problem I have..Is no one should display the losing flag.

Can you imagine? You don't lose and proudly display your failure.
This is just ignorance. We are going back further than 35 years. We are going back to the Civil war.

[alphafemale]

19. Yes. Problem with the flag. But not Gen. Lee

General Lee would probably have a real problem with the way his image is used.

[vetwife]

20. Yep..Jackie Kennedy was his grat niece. I am sure he would have a problem

[alphafemale]

26. For real? Gen Lee and Camelot are linked? C'mon give it up.

Give us the pedigree.

This is too cool if true.

[vetwife]

27. Its true...Heard Jackie say so in an an interview tears ago

Wonder if we could google her name and Lee's. I'll try.

[EstimatedProphet]

16. Maybe we should bury them at Crawford

But then, why dishonor the dead?

[Dogmudgeon]

11. That's a hoot ...

... not exactly political.

And they're working that "crack of dawn" thing like a $2 streetwalker.

I had me a mess o' laughs. Thanks for posting!

--bkl

[Waverley_Hills_Hiker]

24. cool...this is some neat stuff..thanks for that link!

Im sort of an adopted Southerner, so I like this pop culture manifestation of Southerness.

[alphafemale]

4. Not all of GA is like that. Are you Valdosta area?

I'm Savannah area. About 59% Af./Am.

Most folk get along just fine.

Course there is a select group of gated community/historic society white folk who imagine themselves better than any of us (And who we let think they run things.)

[vetwife]

6. Nope 45 miles west of Atlanta..check this out !

http://www.southerncaucus.org/246.htm

[alphafemale]

12. We're probably going to be north of ATL next week.

Business + getting out of Ivans way.

Dalton.

[napi21]

21. Holy cow! Where are thee people???

I read about 1/2 of the page. After reading enough to blow my mind, I scanned down the page. I found posts from Fl, MO, TX, and NC.

Do they all want to secede from the US? The original writer was actually right with his advice, but are they really trying to restart the civil war?

Geesh. I live about 45 north of Atlanta. I've certainly seen racism, and whatever you call it when southerners hate yankees. but I never saw of heard anything as radical as that link you listed.

I really thought aster 60 years, I couldn't be surprised by anything, but that sure did it!

[vetwife]

22. I tell you where they are..West Ga. close to Alabama . Facts!

Ollie North was out here all the time duing the 2000 election
This is Bob Barr territory.
Newt territory.
This is skinhead territory.
I will post some links to prove what Julian Bond has been looking into. I am like you, Inever knew it was so bad but it was never so bold before. The orginal outcry about he Dixie outfiters came from your part of the woods. Cherokee County.

[JohnKleeb]

5. segreated pep rallies jesus

Sorry about what your daughter went through, I havent experienced it here in NOVA because we're such a diverse community.

[coreystone]

7. Well, I guess much of the progress during the sixties has...

gone to "dust into the wind". I like blue eyes, I like brown eyes; I like all the different colors of eyes. I like blond hair, I like brunette hair; I like all the different hues of hair.

I like light skinned people, I like dark skinned people; I like all differences of skin color that are composite of being human beings.

I DETEST RACISM!

:kick:

[vetwife]

8. I really hate this crap..I really hate it !

[Dukkha]

10. The teachers and Parents are to blame

It seems they are doing nothing to stop the ignorance by allowing segregation in the schools. Pretty soon they'll go back to "White Only" drinking fountains and put the "coloreds" in the back of the bus.

Do they even bother teaching the civil rights movement in the south?

[vetwife]

13. Well 25 miles in any direction outside Atlanta...and this is it and if you

do teach your children to be non predjudice. And we do ! They end up on a hate list and always the one who gets kicked out of school for something. ITs getting real old and they are getting bolder and some people like me can't afford to move with disabled folks in the house and I stay on the warpath. Everyone here thinks I have a NY attitude... (whatever that means) and THATS GOOD ! Because I sure ain't no Zell !

[EstimatedProphet]

14. I hate those Dixie Outfitter shirts

For those not in Georgia, they are a sporting goods store which sells their brand of T-shirts, that have logos which quite often look like they came right out of the John Birch Society or Liberty University. Mean-spirited right wing crap.

[vetwife]

17. And they are everywhere !

[shanti]

34. got a picture?

i'm in cali and have no idea what you are talking about!

(on edit - never mind - i get the idea:puke:)

[vetwife]

18. Oh yeah and today I heard a merchant talking up Assault Rifles

From what I gathered, taking orders for them !

[UdoKier]

23. OMG. Looked at their website and found this

I had never heard of these people. I really feel for you folks living in the south. Absolute insanity. All that's missing is the chewin' terbacky and a noose to teach uppity nigras a lesson.



"CAMOFLAUGE 'LIL JOEY JUMPER" (sic)

:puke:

[vetwife]

25. But the south is the tip..Bolder check out this link

http://www.tolerance.org/maps/hate/state.jsp?S=GA&m=2

Go to Home on this tolerance site check track out hate on US Map and check out your state and the map..Terrifying !

[gollygee]

33. Ack! A KKK group and two neo-nazi groups right here! (m)

:( That is very sad.

[Jacobin]

28. Um, careful about jumping to conclusions too quickly

I frequent low-brow establishments in the south pretty often. I'm old enough to remember when those signs were meant to warn off anyone other than the lilly-white. From my experience in the last twenty years or so, the establishments I frequent are directing those signs to skin-heads, mean drunks, trouble-makers, etc. The bars and other such places I've been too don't look twice at whether the patrons are black. They are trying to warn off trouble-makers. I'm talking rural Louisiana and Mississippi here. I'm old enough to remember the gasoline station signs with "colored" rest rooms.

Just a thought.

[vetwife]

Born and Bred here and 54 and maybe but ,,well you would just

have to know the area. I remember all too well. I am white by the way. I remember all of the hatred.

[vetwife]

30. Born and Bred here and 54 and maybe but ,,well you would just

have to know the area. I remember all too well. I am white by the way. I remember all of the hatred. And its back.

[drscm]

29. I thought it was a sign outside of one of *Bush's rallies. eom

eom

[TexasSissy]

31. I've seen that sign often enough, but it wasn't referring to

race. It was invariably referring to undesirables (hippies in the '60's, people not properly dressed, no shoes, no shirt). I was refused service once at a Pitt Grill type place in south Louisiana (I was young, white, clean, middle class college girl type with a hippie flavor to me....but I was wearing short short jean cutoffs and a midriff top with no bra. So, no service for me from the fat white broads behind the counter.)

It's against federal law to refuse service to anyone based on several things, and race is one of them. But they can refuse service for other reasons.

I haven't seen one of those signs lately, but it's been awhile since I've been out of a big city. In small cities in the deep south (where I'm from), it is not unusual for people to congregate according to race. It just comes naturally. (I mean...you DO feel a certain kinship toward your own race that you don't feel with someone from another race, don't you?) It's not intended to be racist, on either side, and it's not that the two groups never participate together. Maybe it's different now. But in my day, we just naturally "hung" within our various races. And contrary to what northerners think of the deep south....I recall hearing racist statements very rarely. I heard some that I found shocking and wrong. But they were rare.

[vetwife]

37. Texas Sissy..No I don't

My husband is Native American. What race would I feel a kinship towards? The Native Americans or the Caucasians. We are all Americans and there are white people I don't like and there are black people I don't like but it has nothing to do with the color of their skin and I feel kinship with anyone who is not a bigot. I like some Asian Americans and dislike others. Same thing for any color of skin but I don't feel comfortable with one race more than another, especially bowling ! I hope I didn't sound too strong, but when thse young tenneagers are pushing the Rebel flag clothes on my daughter and she is bending to peer pressure, I gotta take a stand. She doesn't understand why I don't shop Walmart either. We teach them now. She knows this is wrong but the fuel to the racism has been ignited and she will go to the white side...she is not brave enough, its confusing enough to be different because you are a diabetic, I can't tolerate this racism thing and if I have to go to that pep rally and sit on the black side. I will.

[vetwife]

32. Plain and simple I will say it...New bowling alley..asked the mgr.

What does that sign mean? He said, "Exactly what it says". We got too many of those people taking up lanes.
I can't afford to turn this into a crack den. Plain enough?
Now those people could be Brown, Black, asian, but the guy was white and had a chew of tobacco in his jawl. Didn't sound like a real lover of any race but lily white to me. The Bowling alley is only 2 years old and this guy wasted no time duringthis administration to put up his little sign. 20 something lanes, I saw all white except for one black couple bowling.There were plenty of white folks bowling. I am naot looking for boogers. I just see whats happening down here. Its only been a month since I had a teacher give my daughter and the rest of the class aRight winged questionnaire to fill out. What church did we attend. How often did she go to chruch..what kind? How often did she have sex..How much time did she spend with her parents..What chores did she do. I took that issue up with the principal.

[slojim240]

38. Shouldn't this be reported to the Feds? Civil Rights laws are still on

on the books. Someone should sue. But really, most minorities wouldn't want to give their money to this piss ass redneck. I know if I were one I wouldn't. At lease write a letter to the editor of the print media.

[vetwife]

39. Not here...This state is really red..all but Atlanta ....all but Atlanta

[bluestateguy]

35. Ah, the Red States!

Of course not all folks there are bigoted, just a majority.

[mitchtv]

40. I wouldn't know, BSG

I fly oversuch places, sometimes change planes. But I'll tell you one thing if God is like the fundies say , they are in for a world of trouble.

[Skittles]

36. at the counter of a convenience store here

a clerk tried to help me instead of the black teenager I was behind; it was very offensive and I let him know what I thought