David Yeagley is the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle. 
Today, April 30, the last day of Confederate History Month, we have to take time out comment on a recent set back in the old South. It seems that our Confederate gentlemen were a bit too genteel.
A Virginia-based fraternity, the Kappa Alpha Order, this very month issued a regulation that no Confederate uniforms are allowed at “Old South” parties, parades, or social functions. We are piquantly provoked. The Kappa Alpha Order claims its very existence was inspired by none other than the foremost Southern gentleman in history, General Robert E. Lee himself. Now, what on earth would daunt these modern Southerners into such a cowardly act as to deny it members the right to honor the Old South, and the hero they profess to honor?
This April 11, 2002 file photo shows members of the Kappa Alpha Order, dressed in Confederate military uniforms, escorting their dates from the James Dormitory at Centenary College during the Old South event in Shreveport, La. amidst protesting Centenary College students. The college fraternity inspired by Confederate Gen. Robert E. Lee has banned members around the country from wearing Confederate uniforms to “Old South” parties and parades after years of complaints that the tradition was racially insensitive.
Black women. Yessuh, them Nigrah women. A sorority at the University of Alabama complained. Tuscaloosa’s finest citizens, no doubt. Seventy of them complained to their university’s president about the Confederate flag, and the military uniforms. (The young women forgot, obviously, that a lot of black men wore that same uniform.)
Kappa Alpha Order president Larry Weise said,
“In today’s climate, the Order can ill afford to offend our host institutions and fend off significant negative national press and remain effective at our core mission, which is to aid young men in becoming better community leaders and citizens.”
Mr. Weise certainly doesn’t sound like a true Southerner to me. Sounds like a infiltrator, quick and happy to humiliate the South. Look into the Fraternity and Sorority Political Action Committee, of which he is a member, and you’ll see the whole PAC is a liberal university organization, advancing only the liberal agenda. This is a pretense and a disgrace. No Southern university should be a member. Mabye no nothern student should be allowed in a Southern university, and no northern faculty member.
But, speaking of parade attire, North Carolina’s Kure Beach won’t let anyone don thong swimwear anymore. Yowsa. No more of them exibitionist lewder nuders on that fine Southern beach. There’s still some mighty fine tradition of decency down in the South.
And that’s not the end of news from Dixie. The ol’ colonel hisself be struttin’ in glory. Kentucky Fried Chicken is donating to the fight against breast cancer. Yessiree. For every “pink” bucket of chicken purchased, KFC will donate 50 cents to the cause. Ain’t that a bute!
Kentucky Fried Chicken has gone pink to raise awareness for breast cancer. For every pink bucket purchased, KFC will donate 50 cents to the Susan G. Komen For the Cure organization.
Now, speaking of parades, exibitions, and breasts, where is that woman who always dramatizes the issues in such a visceral way? Yeah. Where’s that heroine of hyacinthine ethics and social aspirations? Where’s PETA Pam?! (That woman never shows up when she’s needed!)
The illusive Pamela Anderson, a.k.a. PETA Pam.
Ever concerned about enlarged breasts (–chicken breasts, that is), she should be in the middle of this KFC issue, decrying the breasts, denying carnivorism, and promoting vegan extremities! Perfect irony, inconsistency, and contradiction. What more could a liberal ask? And always involved in exibitionism, she should have been on the Kure Beach immediately in civil disobedience. How dare those crusty ol’ Southerners deny the natural exposure of artificial enlargements! As for appropriate parade attire, we’d have thought that Pammy would lead out in affair, being expert in propriety. And, after all, she done danced with the stars! She sho kno what to wear in a public hootenanny. Hm, mm, mmm!
Well, I don’t know what’s become of the South. We gots liberals denying young Southern boys the right to wear Confederate history; we gots conservatives denying liberals the right to expose themselves; and we gots the Colonel coverin’ his own behind. Lands o’ livin! What next?
Oh, yeah. Arizona.
21 responses so far ↓
1 geronl // Apr 30, 2010 at 12:39 pm
Susan G Komen Foundation supports abortion rights and funds abortion groups. So I will not be buying any pink buckets. I fail to see how giving money to a lobbying group is going to cure cancer.
2 zephyr // Apr 30, 2010 at 12:52 pm
How ironic that KFC, who sells food laden with cancer-risk increasing fat, would support the fight against the disease. First, they should stop contributing to it!
3 David Yeagley // Apr 30, 2010 at 12:54 pm
Well, Geronl, I should have researched Susan. Thanks. And do we even know what exactly causes cancer? Is it the propensity inherited?
But, the meat eating-cancer causing issue is interesting. Like, Larry Flint giving to domestic abuse foundations. Like, gambers anonymous being supported by casinos. Like, PhillipMorris contributing to repiratory foundations.
Financially speaking, I wonder how muliple breast cancer foundations is more effective than one major conglomerate? Sounds like private enterprising, eh?
4 David Yeagley // Apr 30, 2010 at 12:58 pm
Zephyr, our alien president’s administration wants to take toys out of the McDonald happy meal, so as not to attract children to McDonald’s (except when the president’s family wants to go there).
Is there a doubt about how to handle this? I think fast food is most definitely addictive. It’s the SALT. It makes you thirsty. and yet crave more of the same. Same with SUGAR. It makes you want more.
I guess Barry is essentially a prohibitionist?
5 kschwantz // Apr 30, 2010 at 1:59 pm
“Mr. Weise certainly doesn’t sound like a true Southerner to me. Sounds like a infiltrator,”
A veritable scallywag sir I assure you….
6 Following Him // Apr 30, 2010 at 2:52 pm
You are a bad, bad Indian today aren’t you. But as the old saying goes … when you’re really bad, you’re really good. I loved it.
But may I say the best part was the picture of Pamela … the original one and only (Canadian born) American breast icon.
As far as PETA is concerned … I am a member. It does stand for (People Eating Tasty Animals) doesn’t it?
7 David Yeagley // Apr 30, 2010 at 3:12 pm
Ha, ha! I gues I’m a PETA member, too. (I tried desperately to be a vegetarian, four different times in my life. Ended up mal-nurished and ill. Hard to do, if you don’t know what you’re doing. Vegetarianism involves a lot more than just not eating meat…)
America is a beloved place. I love every part of it, every moment of it, and everyone in it. Humor sometime just has to come to the surface. Souther humor, in particular, was something I became aware of in graduate studies. I lived in Atlanta only two years, but it was unforgettable. I got to see the countryside and back sides–through the soccor team I played on. We really had to travel far sometimes to get to the came. It was all wonderful. We played in the Atlanta Federal Penitentiary one time. (We let them win, 4-2!) They brought the referee out of solitary confinement–in appropriate stripes for the position!
Pammy’s a really simple person, cheerful, and well meaning, I think. But, her public political escapades are just so ironic that they suggest laughter. I don’t mean to make fun of her, personally. It’s just the public image thing.
Shucks. You make me feel guilty now!
8 geronl // Apr 30, 2010 at 3:14 pm
Chickens were meant for food, you don’t see flocks of wild chickens flying across the plains?
9 colleague graduate // Apr 30, 2010 at 8:55 pm
David- what’s next has already happened. It is an environmental disaster in the Old South off the coast of LA, and now on the coast. Please write about it, because I believe Russia might have torpedoed the pipeline after the Russian Navy grouped together in Venezuela recently.
10 colleague graduate // Apr 30, 2010 at 9:29 pm
David, my little brother was a KA at Emory, the one I have mentioned here before who became a board certified radiologist and married into a family w/American Indian blood, having a son w/her. I haven’t talked to him about this, but I don’t think he would have even heard about it, much less care. Additionally, our mom had anemia like you had in ’08, getting to 6.0 rbc count, near your 6.7. She is the one who I have mentioned before who as a teen had long black hair like you have, parting it in the middle like you, but hers was somewhat curly. It’s interesting how coincidental all this is. She wasn’t eating until dinner, and her iron was just not there. She had to have 2 transfusions of blood about 2 years ago. The first didn’t work, and she had a relapse. The next one was followed by doctor’s instruction to take ferrous sulfate each day, which increased her iron so that no relapse has ocurred. You getting anemia in ’08 must have been caused by low iron as a vegan. Follow the new discovery of chickens being modern day descendants of t-rex. Eat more tyrannosaurus rex! Flu vaccines from chicken eggs are from tyrannosaurus rex dinosaur eggs actually, and from the most ferocious meat eating dinosaur that has ever existed. We might not live if it weren’t for t rex, getting H1N1 or regular flu. For that matter, eat meat like t rex did. I do, in addition to poultry. I would like to know what cows and pigs have as dinosaur ancestors. Maybe if no one ever discovers this answer, after I die I will find this answer out somehow. That’s my idea of an afterlife, finding out about the story of things from prehistoric times, such as all the dino bones I have found on my beach, and of American Indians and exactly how long have they been in the US, and did they originate from here? But I will not hasten my demise to find out, preferring to pass on from old age. The bible says to live a long time- even with sin here. I don’t care for the New Testament excerpt trying to sell heterosexuals on the attractiveness of eunuchs, though. Jesuses folks were heterosexual, why can’t everybody have a heterosexual relationship therefore? Why was it reserved for Jesuses folks and most people since then, but a homosexual option offered for future people? To avoid having a false prophet offspring? Who knows? That’s what I don’t like about the bible. It isn’t fully explanatory. It’s sometimes authoritative.
11 REG // May 1, 2010 at 8:19 am
The major problem in the US is the lack of intelligence due to a poor education. Almost none of our people old or young know what the so called Civil War was all about, most do not know the basics of economics. Even the English language has gone through a lack of meaning. It used to be that “Reform” meant to ‘correct and put on the correct path’ but now, it means ignore the past abuse, and add even more abuse in the name of improvement. We are going to continue down this path until a good education is restored, no hope otherwise.
CG brings up a point in regard to religion- that being that the ‘Bible isn’t fully explanatory, and is sometimes authoritative.’ Not a true statement- but one that a lot of people agree with. The Bible is a history book about a people who lived with God and also contains some of the letters by Christians to other Christians about church concepts and doctrines, mainly to correct misunderstandings, but no authority over others is implied and to be honest not over Christians or Jews, everything is voluntary. The individual can accept or ignore the instruction; however, a person cannot call himself/herself a Christian if they refuse to follow the teaching of Jesus. The Bible is not intended to have relevance to others outside of its adherents nor authority over anyone.
12 colleague graduate // May 1, 2010 at 9:16 am
REG- the section of the bible and New Testament mentioning how eunuchs were made to be attractive says “if you can accept them”, implying voluntary participation. Buy it does not say why they were made as opposed to never being made and heterosexuality offered only. This is what I mean by authoritative. Since it does not say why, such as if it was a punishment for sin during heterosexual intercourse, or now homosexuality is allowed only with eunuchs as opposed to Sodom and Gomorah when it wasn’t allowed, it just doesn’t say with an explanation like the bible offers alot. If the bible says homosexuality is ok now to an extent, I would drop out of it and not follow Jesus. I would follow Freedom of Religion, just like back in the American Revolution days.
13 colleague graduate // May 1, 2010 at 9:32 am
“But it does not say…”, not “Buy it does not say…”.
14 colleague graduate // May 1, 2010 at 9:45 am
There’s gotta be a better way for a male to have sex than to have it with a eunuch. Having it with yourself would be better. Have it with a sexy female who would be better looking than a male eunuch anyway. I’ve seen pics of eunuchs doing Google Searches, and they look like plain ole’ guys except for small breasts, therefore plain ole’ homosexuality exists. We need to get back on topic, because David chewed me out about digressing on the last journal. I’m dropping this subject now.
15 Thrasymachus // May 1, 2010 at 11:15 am
A thought on the Civil War:
“Just as we would not send any of our soldiers to march into other states and tyrannize other people, so will we never allow the armies of others to march into our State and tyrannize our people.” — General Thomas Jonathan (“Stonewall”) Jackson
16 REG // May 1, 2010 at 12:51 pm
I think CG has a different Bible than I do. Since I only read the Jewish /Christian Bibles and there are other types, perhaps, that’s where my misunderstanding is at fault. Have a good day.
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18 David Yeagley // May 1, 2010 at 8:59 pm
REG, really interesting issue, volutary vs. authoritative, regarding the Bible. I think the conversation with CG involves connotation vs denotation.
Authoritative implies the demand for obedience without explanation? Sometimes that’s true. But, later, we usually find out why. Authoritative, however, doesn’t have to imply coercion. Like you said, we have a choice in the matter.
I’m thinking authoritative implies power, obligation, and yes, retionality. Of course, I’ve never lived under an “authoritarian” regime. I’m sociologically oriented to other dimensions in the word “authority” than simply blinding tyranny. Authority, to an American, is contractual. It might not mean that to one born under monarchy, or communism (oligarchy).
19 zephyr // May 2, 2010 at 11:00 am
A British model wore the Confederate flag to a Hollywood party. I hope she “offended” a lot of people!
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1270403/Now-Peaches-Geldof-wears-racist-Confederate-flag-Hollywood-party.html
20 colleague graduate // May 3, 2010 at 10:31 am
I want to say I’m terribly sorry for my own biblical faux-pas. I only have remote access to a bible. I have a large concordance where I live I recently bought at an antique store. I accessed the bible on Sunday, and read the eunuch verses. They do not imply gay homosexuality- maybe. I thought they might when they said “He who is able to receive IT”, with the word IT being construed as anything to me, including homosexuality. The verses said some eunuchs were made from their mothers, so they should be accepted if possible, and not prevented from entering high places. But why give them some male testerone and have them suffer when they see a beautiful female with some threetrone stud, suffering relative deprivation at that time, being deprived relatively to the couple who were supposed to be as sinful as the eunuch? Didn’t Jesus say “let the one who is without sin cast the first stone”. Jesus said the eunuchs are with “Him” in the kingdom of heaven, but until then they have some testerone, more than females, and they might need sex because of their blood, but are prevented from getting some because of their sexual builds. I think this is a ripoff by Jesus. Someone might refer back to this comment, but the current journal on the oil spill is already online, so this topic here for all I know is now over and not worth discussing from now on. Let’s change the subject.
21 BrockTownsend // May 21, 2010 at 7:12 pm
I had a fall out with national many years ago, and we exchanged a few poison pen letters. What a difference when I pledged.
Bourbon, REL IV & Hell Week
http://www.namsouth.com/viewtopic.php?t=445&highlight=ka
“During Hell Week, as a KA at Randolph-Macon, Ashland, Virginia, the pledges had to defend the Battle Flag that flew from a telephone post in the backyard of the fraternity house for 24 hours a day from pledges of other fraternities. Our class suffered one broken leg in defense of such. A fitting defense in honor of our ancestors!:
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