Can we please let the South go now?

[gridlore]

Alabama Sheriff's letter to his county.

I am proud to be an American and that I was fortunate enough to be born in Alabama. The state that has its motto "We dare defend our rights". I was raised in era, the 1940's as a child and the 1950's as a teenager, which I remember with great affection.

During this era, love of God, family, and country abounded. Men were men and women were women and there was no mistaking which was which. Both were proud of their individual roles. Homosexuality was very queer and a despicable act… an abomination.

During this era, those parents that owned televisions didn't have to worry that their children might be subjected to filth on television such as nudity, the use of God's name in vain, and other profanity because it was unheard of. Parents could allow their children to go to a movie without having to screen it first because the good guy always wore the white hats. There was no question who the "Good Guy" was. Even the "Bad Guy" in the movie didn't use foul language. During this era our nation had a conscience including the television and movie industry.

Children's school days started with the recitation of the "Lord's Prayer" and the "Pledge of Allegiance" to the flag of the United States of America.

It was a shame to break the law. Convicts worked our roadways in unmistakable clothing (black and white prisoner uniforms that clearly identified them as convicts). Their rights were to be sentenced to jail at hard labor as retribution to the victims and their crimes.

The "Ten Commandments" were proudly displayed as a reminder that the real Commander in Chief and Final Judge is God and that this nation was founded on Judeo/Christian principal. Neighbors helped each other instead of jumping at the chance to file a lawsuit.

A man's word was his bond. My word and bond to you, the citizens of Marshall County, is to do my very best to devote all my energy to do my part to return our society to the values that we once held dear.

Please join me. I need your help. Our children deserve no less.

Mac Holcomb
Sheriff
Marshall County Alabama

This guy looks back on the forties and fifties as wonderful times.. remember, this was when Jim Crow ruled, and blacks were third-class citizens at best, denied their rights and killed if they got too uppity. He remembers when women were not allowed to have lives with fondness, and gay Americans were jailed.

His comments about religion are typical for the Bible Belt. Yup, everybody has to recite a Christian prayer.. even the non-Christians. So much for Freedom of Religion.

He wants to return his little corner of Hell to the days of yore when Whote Men were kings and the damn darkies kept theor place.

Fuck him.

Oh, feel free to let Sheriff Holcomb know your opinion of his caveman views.

sheriff@marshallco.org

Comments

[soldiergrrrl.livejournal.com]

Don't you dare paint the entire region with that brush. I lived as an open Pagan for damn near 6 years in the middle of that Bible belt and wasn't treated horribly, or even mildly different.

People like this are regarded by you the same way that Queer Nation is regarded by my parents. Out there and "dangerous".

I guess that it's hard to see that some people do find different lives and lifestyles threatening. A lot of people from that generation find these times frightening, and they react with an almost instinctive drawing in.

You might want to rethink tossing the South...

[murbin.livejournal.com]

Considering that the last three democrats elected President were from the South, you might just be falling right into Karl Rove's Master Plan (tm) by spreading that "ditch the South" stuff.
Or it could be that I've been reading DU too much lately...
Even you don't don't buy into the Master Plan (tm) bit, the last time a democrat not from the South elected President was 45 years ago.