Stonewall Jackson loans raise a fuss- al.com
Okay… Apparently, the state of Alabama has a fund which pays “loans” (which are never paid back) to students who write essays that “memorialize that great American and Confederate general, `Stonewall’ Jackson”. It was, of course, launched in the fifties in an attempt to prop up Jim Crow.
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Tainted Bill // July 15, 2008 at 1:23 pm
Aren’t “great American” and “Confederate General” mutually exclusive?
Mac Thomason // July 15, 2008 at 1:33 pm
I like to think so. Part of the problem is that “American” has multiple meanings. I don’t think weasel slavery-boosting traitors normally come under the “great American” heading, though.
Daily Links | Daily Dixie // July 16, 2008 at 4:44 pm
[...] Thomason Tracts: Stonewall RiotApparently some people are upset that the state funds loans to students who write essays of praise about Confederate General Stonewall Jackson. [...]
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