{"id":186335,"date":"2014-02-25T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2014-02-26T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/25\/i-wish-that-this-was-true\/"},"modified":"2014-02-25T20:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-02-26T01:00:00","slug":"i-wish-that-this-was-true","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2014\/02\/25\/i-wish-that-this-was-true\/","title":{"rendered":"I Wish that This Was True"},"content":{"rendered":"

In response to Georgia’s issuing a vanity plate featuring the Klu Klux Klan<\/strike> Confederate Battle Flag, John Perr comes up with a parody that is pure genius<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The only thing that could make this better would be if this were true: <\/p>\n

The state of Georgia this week began offering a new version of its vehicle license plate<\/a> featuring the Confederate battle flag. Sponsored by the Georgia division of the Sons of Confederate Veterans<\/a> (to whom a portion of the purchase price and annual registration fees will go), the revised design has many people inside the state and out howling mad. <\/span>

<\/span> In response to the outcry, Georgia SCV commander Jack Bridwell asked, “What’s the big deal?<\/a>” Echoing Bridwell’s explanation that “the design is just people trying to show who they are and trying to be proud of their heritage,” Sons of Confederate Veterans spokesman Ray McBerry invited other groups to do the same:<\/span><\/p>\n

“We believe that all people ought to be able to celebrate their history and their heritage, and that includes Southerners. We did anticipate that there could be some folks who would not like that, but we encourage them to go and make application for their own specialty plates.”<\/i><\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Now, a little known organization is taking him up on the offer. The group, calling itself The American People, is sponsoring a license plate to mark the 150th anniversary of Union General William Tecumseh Sherman’s March to the Sea<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

After capturing the South’s vital manufacturing center and rail hub at Atlanta, Sherman’s troops marched southeast to Savannah leaving a swath of ruin in their wake. Between November 15th and December 21st, 1864, Sherman more than accomplished his objective to “create havoc and destruction of all resources that would be beneficial to the enemy.” Sherman’s brilliant campaign (or what the Sons of Confederate Veterans brand “atrocities and war crimes<\/a>“) hastened the end of the Confederacy and with it the enslavement of four million Americans.<\/span><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the rest, it’s brilliant, and if you know anyone in Georgia, have them petition for a vanity plate.<\/p>\n

This is f%$3ing brilliant!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In response to Georgia’s issuing a vanity plate featuring the Klu Klux Klan Confederate Battle Flag, John Perr comes up with a parody that is pure genius. The only thing that could make this better would be if this were true: The state of Georgia this week began offering a new version of its vehicle …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1139,981,1100,1011,1001,1050,1035],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-186335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-automobile","category-civil-war","category-funny","category-history","category-racism","category-snark","category-transportation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186335"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=186335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/186335\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=186335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=186335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=186335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}