Steve Spurrier Recommends S. Carolina Remove Confederate Flag

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Posted on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 01:58:12 PM EST
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[Former University of Florida football coach and current South Carolina coach] Spurrier brought up the [Confederate] flag issue Friday while accepting a leadership award from City Year at the service group’s Ripples of Hope banquet at the Columbia Metropolitan Convention Center.
. . . “It would make us a more progressive, better state, I think, if the flag was removed. But I’m not going to go on any big campaign to have it removed. That’s not my position,” Spurrier said in an interview with The State. “But if anyone were to ask me, that would certainly be my position. And I think everyone in there, it was their position, too.”
Spurrier said it was “embarrassing” last year when someone waved a Confederate battle flag behind the set of ESPN’s “GameDay” before the Gamecocks’ home game against Tennessee.

Good for the former Heisman winner and legandary Ole Ball Coach. But the "best" was yet to come.

[Don] Gordon, a state officer with the Sons of Confederate Veterans, said Spurrier’s call for the removal of the flag was “the moral equivalent of calling our ancestors ‘nappy-headed hos.’”

Oookaaaaay.

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Steve Spurrier Recommends S. Carolina Remove Confederate Flag | 24 comments (24 topical)

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Wow (5.00 / 1) (#2)
by andgarden on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:27:24 PM EST

What a schmuck Gordon is. (Am I allwoed to say that here?)

Or allowed. . . n/t (none / 0) (#3)
by andgarden on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:27:47 PM EST

You nebbish (none / 0) (#4)
by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:35:51 PM EST

I wonder if I am allowed to say that.


And I wonder if I can tell this joke (5.00 / 4) (#6)
by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:38:51 PM EST

A`foolishly dressed tourist in Israel takes a ride on a camel, announces to wife that it was a male camel.

His wife asks how he knew. The man replied "Everyone was saying 'Look at the putz on that camel.'"


oy! (5.00 / 1) (#9)
by andgarden on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:42:05 PM EST

Vey (none / 0) (#10)
by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:43:18 PM EST

Remember Al Franken's the Oy Oy Oy Show?


A confession: (none / 0) (#13)
by andgarden on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:44:43 PM EST

I never listened to more than two seconds of AAR.


: Shanda! (none / 0) (#14)
by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:45:42 PM EST

Loved Oy oy oy (none / 0) (#18)
by TexDem on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:57:52 PM EST

great fun.


oh, and paging Al D'Amato! n/t (5.00 / 1) (#11)
by andgarden on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:43:34 PM EST

My usage was perfectly correct (none / 0) (#15)
by Big Tent Democrat on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:46:41 PM EST

D'Amato misuse was his real crime. I mean putzhead? What is that?

It doesn't sing.


: Schumer got the best of him (none / 0) (#17)
by andgarden on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:49:23 PM EST

I think that was my first conscious exposure to politics. I was in middle school!

Wow. (5.00 / 1) (#5)
by nolo on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:37:45 PM EST

"Moral equivalent of calling our ancestors nappy headed hos?" More like "moral equivalent of calling our ancestors the frikkin' racists that they were, and that you apparently still are," yo.

Sorry -- (none / 0) (#7)
by nolo on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:39:38 PM EST

I should have said "moral equivalent of calling your ancestors the frikkin' racists that they were."

And now we return to our regularly scheduled programming.


If I were born in the South (5.00 / 1) (#16)
by Militarytracy on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:48:15 PM EST

and it mattered to me who my ancestors were, I would refrain from claiming that I knew for sure exactly who my ancestors were. It has always been a shaky certainty for all of us and now we have DNA profiling ;)!


Touche (5.00 / 1) (#19)
by TexDem on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 03:06:45 PM EST

But at least I call myself at least an European Mutt. Italian, Irish, Scot and Welsh. Italian Welsh on the fraternal. Scot Irish on the maternal. and god knows what else. Three of my siblings have dark hair brown eyes and a somewhat olive complexion and I have Auburn/blonde hair blue eyes and a fair complexion and another sibling with blonde hair hazel eyes and a fair complexion.

Ancestors, do you really want to know?


: Scary huh? (none / 0) (#21)
by Militarytracy on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 03:15:51 PM EST

Then there's my teenager who dreams of being adopted. She's sure often that anything would be better than what she got ;)

good point . . . (5.00 / 1) (#20)
by nolo on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 03:10:10 PM EST

Our friend in the Sons of Confederate Veterans may actually have nappy-headed ancestors (it's guaranteed to be the case if you go back far enough). I don't think that's what he was talking about, though.


: Good point (none / 0) (#24)
by Sailor on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 10:57:46 PM EST

it's guaranteed to be the case if you go back far enough.
exactly right ... umm, I mean correct;-)

I don't think that's what he was talking about, though.
Which goes straight to the point of he doesn't know what he's talking about ... he might believe, but belief is not a substitute for knowledge.

I heard this on the radio (5.00 / 1) (#8)
by Militarytracy on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:40:08 PM EST

when I went to pick my son up from school. Sometimes you hear good news. They left out Don Gordon's response.

Well, (5.00 / 3) (#12)
by HeadScratcher on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:44:42 PM EST

You weren't expecting a smart racist were you.

I always thought this was the best way to reform the old South. Not from a politician, or an African American "looking to cause problems", but from someone like Spurrier who is well-known, respected, and a football hero.

: Football fixes everything down here! (none / 0) (#23)
by Militarytracy on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 03:20:59 PM EST

It is the most amazing thing. If you frame things around football there are no neurons blocking the way into the nugget. It just goes right in unprocessed and whole. He who has the most ticket stubs from the movie "The Gridiron Gang" can also run for smaller offices with good chances.

Should we call Don Gordon (none / 0) (#1)
by TexDem on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 02:16:27 PM EST

a white hooded redneck? And I say that as someone born and raised in the south.

tex (none / 0) (#22)
by cpinva on Mon Apr 16, 2007 at 03:18:28 PM EST

redneck is a state of mind, not dress. i find it interesting that germany doesn't have any "sons of the third reich" groups running around. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm!