Grasseaters

Timshel has a post about a group of veterans in Abbeville who are, in a word, ignorant:

[A] veterans group in Abbeville [is] causing a ruckus over a pan-African flag flying in an Abbeville cultural center.

LaBorde took a poll of fellow veterans in Post 4158. They agreed the the Pan-African flag needs to come down. The flag and its colors represent different things to different people. For some, it symbolizes the struggle for African unity. For others, its a banner of the black liberation movement. That's what bothers the veterans in Abbeville.

"It advocates their goal and thrust is to overthrow the government and create a black country on the north American continent," says LaBorde.

The best part is their offer to buy a Liberian flag to fly in the cultural center in the tri-color's place. These guys are clearly paragons of cultural understanding. This whole report (and this post too) is much ado about nothing, but it's always fun to point out stupidity in the ranks.

OK, I stand corrected--they're stupid, not ignorant. But I'll stand by my use of the term Grasseaters, which in the 1950's was used to describe hard-core segregationists like Willie Rainach. Sadly, while the South has managed to evolve quite a bit in the ensuing half-century, there are a few folks still around to remind us of our worst moments.