Quiz 6

The Web page www.dixienet.org, was a homepage for the League of the South. This group is one of people who are Southern Nationalists. This group has a main goal of being known as a free and independent Southern republic. To reach that goal, they are going to create a climate for a free South among their people by 1) de-legitimating the American Empire at every opportunity; 2) by proving our willingness to be servant-leaders to the Southern people; and 3) by making The League of the South a strong, viable organization that will lead us to Southern independence. They want to encourage and make sure that their members stay away from the post-Christian America. They are saying that the people in the group are all Anglo Saxon because they were the real founders of the American land, and they didn't want to sabatage the "image" of the United States by introducing “aliens” to the country. Most people think of bad things in the south when it has to deal with blacks and whites. This group is a little different. They asked the President of the group this question “What are your views of blacks in the south?” his response was one of a surprise, “The League of the South disavows a spirit of malice and extends an offer of good will and cooperation to Southern blacks in areas where we can work together as Christians to make life better for all people in the South. We affirm that, while historically the interests of Southern blacks and whites have been in part antagonistic, true Constitutional government would provide protection to all law-abiding citizens — not just to government-sponsored victim groups.”
This website was a surprise to me. At first glance I would have thought it was a group that was a whites only group that was very closed minded and like most of the groups that came from the south. I was completely wrong. The group is not only open minded towards other races but they are a Bible based organization. Learning more about what the group is and what thet stand for made me excited to keep reading and knowing more. It made me look at the south just a little bit different. Maybe things are changing in the south between some people.

McPherson(Unfinished)

In the article "I'll Take My Stand in Dixie-Net" by Tara McPherson it starts off by explaining how McPherson went on a journey to find out more about Tara. When she did she discovered alot of things about the Confederate Embassy in Washington. She than wondered what she herself would have to go to the Embassy for. Basically what the purpose was for the building itself being there. Even though she lived in D.C. she had no clue that the building existed. Going further in the reading it seems to be that Tara is explaining how the websites are being used to support racism and keep it going. Tara says that most of the websites are against racism and they try very hard to prove it. The south is becoming in a way it's own section apart from the north and every other area. Many times the racist views come from families and how they think. Tara again talks alot about the Confederate Embassy and her times living near there.

McBride

In the article “Why I Hate Abercrombie and Fitch” by Dwight McBride, he states that the Ambercrombe and Fitch name is geared towards a certain group of people including their age, color, and social class. The name is influencing the way the youth and the young adults look at clothes themselves and what they represent. He says the clothes are made to target the young middle and upper class kids. McBride argues that Ambercrombie and Fitch are doing more than just selling clothes to people they are in a way showing them a way of life. He says that this is bad because young people will try to measure up to the clothes and what they stand for, and in the end they won't be accepted in society, or looked at as having money. He says on page 71 “Ambercrombie and Fitch codes for race and class without actually having to name it.” On the website, there's alot of pictures of young people that represent many different backgrounds. There are blacks, whites, asians, hispanics, etc that appear on the website. If you look at the way they advertise it's made to look like they are appealing to everybody but that really isn't true. The mass majority of the employees that work in the store are white. The employees that are not white nine times out of ten are working in the back stocking or doing some over night work. They are rarely on the front lines helping customers. The website makes an outsider think that the store is diverse and gives all races a fair chance but in person it's clear that's not true. Most stores if you really look at have an un spoken policy like Ambercrombie and Fitch does. Discrimination is something that has been a problem in alot of stores.

I agree and disagree with McBride. I see kids going in and out of Ambercrombie and Fitch trying to capture the latest styles and looks. Even in school the kids mostly white would go out and buy up the store just to look like the models that came out in the newest magazine. They feel like if they dont look like them in some way they aren't as cool or rich. The one's who aren't wearing the clothes are viewed as uncool or "lame", which is one of the things McBride was talking about. If you ask me it's all over rated. The clothes are nice but it's not as serious as they make it to be.