OMG Politics, I'm over it already.

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Mark Wein said:
So...no head coverings in Saudi but at the Vatican?

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Also, they look like they are at a funeral.
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theirs, hopefully.
 
GomezAddams said:
I don't think Skynyrd ever epsoused the "South's gonna rise again" philosophy. They certainly were painted with that brush by the public and media because they were a southern rock band, but their songs don't reflect it.
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Chad said:
It's hard for people who weren't raised in the south to understand this. I'm 46, so way younger than the guys in Skynyrd. I was never taught that the confederate flag was bad. It was part of our heritage and should be celebrated. You travel the state and it is everywhere and you don't think anything about it. Growing up, I saw plenty of African American folks wearing a confederate hat or flying the flag in front of there house. An old bandmate of mine, who is black, was born and raised in VA and he wear's a confederate flag hat on stage and sings lead on Sweet Home Alabama in his current band, so how could it be bad? It wasn't until I went to college and really thought about it that I figured out how wrong it is to celebrate that flag and think about what it really represents. I think for older folks (like the guys in Skynyrd) it took them a little longer to see that. They made a statement years ago saying they were removing the confederate flag from their merchandise and shows. Patterson Hood wrote a great piece about the flag and he has tackled the strangeness of south all through the Truckers catalog.

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/09/...eritage-is-so-much-more-than-a-flag.html?_r=0
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I can't help thinking of the lyrics "I hope Neil Young will remember, a southern man don't need him around anyhow". I always assumed that was a response to Neil's Southern Man.
 
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