This dude wrote an article using Martin Luther King and Rosa Parks as being rebels.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20...ntary-No-reason-to-fight-over-Rebels-nickname
Read on how racist this guy James F. Byrnes was.
On Dec. 1, 1955, a black woman who worked as a seamstress in a Montgomery, Ala., department store refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. She was arrested, but her actions led to a boycott and, eventually, the end of segregation on the city's public bus system.
Rosa Parks was a rebel.
Throughout the late 1950s and the 1960s, a young minister from Atlanta battled racial injustice with non-violent protests. His actions were met by violence, and he was jailed numerous times. But he was undaunted, and he played a crucial role in ending segregation and in the establishment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a rebel.
Parks and King were rebels in a nation founded by rebels. Daniel Morgan, whose statue stands guard over downtown Spartanburg, was a rebel. Abraham Lincoln, I'd say, was a rebel.
My point, quite simply, is this: We don't need a fight over Byrnes High School's Rebels nickname. There are rumblings that one is brewing, and before it begins in earnest, before words are written and spoken that can't be taken back, everyone should take a deep breath.
We are less than a week removed from watching the Confederate battle flag come down from the Statehouse grounds. And make no mistake about it, that flag had to come down.
That fight is over now, finally. We don't need a new one over a benign school nickname.
Spartanburg School District Five in 1991 removed Confederate imagery and said “Dixie” should not be played at Byrnes events. But they left the Rebels nickname, and that's OK.
There are rebels in all walks of life, thank goodness. It's not a label reserved exclusively for the Confederacy.
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20...ntary-No-reason-to-fight-over-Rebels-nickname
Read on how racist this guy James F. Byrnes was.
On Dec. 1, 1955, a black woman who worked as a seamstress in a Montgomery, Ala., department store refused to give up her seat on a city bus to a white passenger. She was arrested, but her actions led to a boycott and, eventually, the end of segregation on the city's public bus system.
Rosa Parks was a rebel.
Throughout the late 1950s and the 1960s, a young minister from Atlanta battled racial injustice with non-violent protests. His actions were met by violence, and he was jailed numerous times. But he was undaunted, and he played a crucial role in ending segregation and in the establishment of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Voting Rights Act of 1965.
Martin Luther King, Jr. was a rebel.
Parks and King were rebels in a nation founded by rebels. Daniel Morgan, whose statue stands guard over downtown Spartanburg, was a rebel. Abraham Lincoln, I'd say, was a rebel.
My point, quite simply, is this: We don't need a fight over Byrnes High School's Rebels nickname. There are rumblings that one is brewing, and before it begins in earnest, before words are written and spoken that can't be taken back, everyone should take a deep breath.
We are less than a week removed from watching the Confederate battle flag come down from the Statehouse grounds. And make no mistake about it, that flag had to come down.
That fight is over now, finally. We don't need a new one over a benign school nickname.
Spartanburg School District Five in 1991 removed Confederate imagery and said “Dixie” should not be played at Byrnes events. But they left the Rebels nickname, and that's OK.
There are rebels in all walks of life, thank goodness. It's not a label reserved exclusively for the Confederacy.
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