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re: So is The Auburn mascot racist too? How about Mizzou? Clemson? Exc.
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:52 pm to Jacknola
Posted on 6/5/17 at 2:52 pm to Jacknola
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While the term "Louisiana Tigers" was originally used only by Wheat's Battalion, it was eventually applied to all CSA troops from Louisiana. Hence, "Louisiana Tigers" is indeed a title with links to the WBTS and Louisiana troops.
So it is only racist if associated with schools from Louisiana...for instance, Grambling State.
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Posted on 6/5/17 at 3:27 pm to madmaxvol
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madmaxvol
You do know that the first "black" troops in the WBTS, organized and trained, were the New Orleans Native Guards, a first rate militia regiment don't you?
"The most prominent example of free black Confederate troops is the Louisiana Native Guards, based in New Orleans. Some 1,500 men enlisted, and early in the war they announced their determination to “take arms at a moment’s notice and fight shoulder to shoulder with other citizens” in defense of the city. Part of the state militia, they marched in review through the streets with white soldiers. But they were never ordered into combat, and when Union forces captured New Orleans in the spring of 1862, they switched sides and declared their loyalty to the Union."
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Incidentally, as Union troops they were pretty badly shot up at siege of Port Hudson, sacrificed by Banks and the Union command in a hopeless assault on strong defensive fortifications.
This post was edited on 6/5/17 at 3:30 pm
Posted on 6/5/17 at 3:30 pm to madmaxvol
Do not give in to the PC nonsense.
I lost all respect for Ole Miss over them throwing away their history.
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Ole Miss student body (and many of their professors) joined the 11th Mississippi Infantry en masse, served together in a unit called the "University Greys" in the Army of Northern Virginia and bloodied the field at Gettysburg suffering 100% casualties in less than hour during Pickett's Charge. Now the school administration outlaws the display of the Confederate battle flag at school events lest someone get offended -- as if any of the students waving those flags were advocating slavery. Our history is what it is. It makes us who we are.
I lost all respect for Ole Miss over them throwing away their history.
At the beginning of the Civil War, the Ole Miss student body (and many of their professors) joined the 11th Mississippi Infantry en masse, served together in a unit called the "University Greys" in the Army of Northern Virginia and bloodied the field at Gettysburg suffering 100% casualties in less than hour during Pickett's Charge. Now the school administration outlaws the display of the Confederate battle flag at school events lest someone get offended -- as if any of the students waving those flags were advocating slavery. Our history is what it is. It makes us who we are.
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