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Back on track to talk of "preservation," quick! So if we save these signs, what do folks propose we do with them? Stick 'em in the Museum of the New South? Me, I miss the Athens Diner, which was torn down by CPCC, but the vacant lot remains unused. An interesting sign was there -- my kids called it the Chief Wiggum Diner because the sign looked like a Simpson's character. But if you save these signs, what do you do with them and who pays?
Who was advocating the courts do anything? I don't recall anyone mentioning lawsuits or pressure on the courts to outlaw signs? I know I never mentioned or even implied such a thing. Did you see any?
It seems we're both inferring from the other's posts things that do not exist.
Where did I "tell people what they have a 'Right' to feel and think"?
FACT: One is not protected from being offended or finding something distasteful.
I will bow out, not feeling like entering a battle of lastwordsmanship.
This thread is about historic local signs, not what they say...
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Originally Posted by anifani821
I guess the big thing is . . . our Confederate history in the South. We all still carry this defensiveness about our Confederate past. And we feel we are expected (unfairly) to carry some sort of Collective Guilt over slavery, when we ourselves had nothing to do with the institution of slavery.
But I digress.
Funny thing is, this stuff you're talking about never even enters my mind.
I don't think in terms of Us against Them, Northerners vs. Southerners ......
I wonder if there are any Northerners down here who think that way?
...and Slavery and who's to blame for slavery.
But since you brought it up........
Slavery has a very long and dispicable history. I don't believe there's any one group of people to blame for it. The human race, as a collective, has itself to blame for it. There are many races, many skin-colors..... many cultures, many people of many countries (including Africa) who shoulder the blame.
I think we all (all of the human race) should let that one go and avoid any remissions. Eevn though, sadly, it's still occuring in some places, on earth.
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How rude. And shame on you. This is a thread about HISTORIC PRESERVATION and you take it as an opportunity to malign southerners and Christians - great. Feel big in your britches now?
I agree with you Loves....and I'm a recently transplanted northerner and very much a non-Christian.
Last edited by SunnyKayak; 05-25-2010 at 04:35 PM..
Funny thing is, this stuff you're talking about never even enters my mind.
I don't think in terms of Us against Them, Northerners vs. Southerners ......
I wonder if there are any Northerners down here who think that way?
...and Slavery and who's to blame for slavery.
But since you brought it up........
Slavery has a very long and dispicable history. I don't believe there's any one group of people to blame for it. The human race, as a collective, has itself to blame for it. There are many races, many skin-colors..... many cultures, many people of many countries (including Africa) who shoulder the blame.
I think we all (all of the human race) should let that one go and avoid any remissions. Eevn though, sadly, it's still occuring in some places, on earth.
I do not appreciate your continued insistance on taking this thread off topic
Last edited by SunnyKayak; 05-25-2010 at 04:36 PM..
Back on track to talk of "preservation," quick! So if we save these signs, what do folks propose we do with them? Stick 'em in the Museum of the New South? Me, I miss the Athens Diner, which was torn down by CPCC, but the vacant lot remains unused. An interesting sign was there -- my kids called it the Chief Wiggum Diner because the sign looked like a Simpson's character. But if you save these signs, what do you do with them and who pays?
AGAIN, if you would just bother to open the first link I posted your questions would be answered
Hey, maybe we can hit up the Levines for a "Signs of the Times" Museum!
Ding, ding, ding, ding - We HAVE a winner!!
The poor Levines - they get hit up for everything
Fortunately for Charlotte they have been very generous to this city!
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