Southern Man

Amen gratefulfloyd28, you're one of the only people on here that I've seen talk sense.

Everyone on this page should seriously stop going for one another's throats!!! It's this sort of shit that leads to lasting bad feelings.

To my fellow "Yankees"-We need to stop giving our Southern bretheren such a hard time. Why do you think they call us damn yankees? I don't particularly care for Confederate flags being displayed carelessly, I only like them when they are shown with something else, such as Lynyrd Skynyrd or Pantera band t-shirt, that shows it's not being displayed as rascist propaganda. Only if it defenitly being used as a symbol of hate do I want to strip it off the place it's hanging, burn it, and piss on the ashes. Not all southerners are rascists. Plenty are, but I think that there's just as many rascists up here as there are anywhere in the U.S.

To the Southerners-I certainly don't hate the rebel flag itself (unless it really it being used a symbol of hate), and I'm against so many people giving you all a load of shit about it. I'll admit though, I was always for the North in the Civil War, I always felt the South was wrong to break away, and I have always felt that rascism, segregation, and institutional hatred was evil and morally wrong. I'm not saying that all of you are rascists (a very good friend of mine lives in North Carolina, and he's certainly not a rascist), but for those who are, the question is why? Is it irrational fear, is it hunger for power, and fear that equality between people of all races will lead to a loss of it, is it that you get some sick, perverted pleasure from watching other people suffer, and you choose someone with a different skin color and culture to bear the brunt of your sadism, or are you just an extreme conformist who believes that anyone who is not white, anglo-saxon, and protestant is not a true American, that they do not deserve to live here, and to solve the "problem," you adopt that "us and them" attitude? You know, there's nothing I hate more than the "us and them" attitude. And if people are going to call me a hypocrite for being too judgemental and hating rascists while preaching against hatred, then I'll say this right now. I don't always hate rascsists themselves (except for Hitler, most of the Nazi officials, the KKK members, past and present, and any other kind of extremist), I just hate rascism itself, because a rascist is not always a bad person, sometimes they are misguided, at least I would hope that's the only reason for someone's rascism if they absolutely have to be one. But misguided rascism or not, I refuse point blank to listen to music with any sincere rascist messages, no matter how good their music is (for example: Graveland, Absurd, or Skrewdriver [there's a band I REALLY FUCKING CAN'T STAND]).

Believe it or not (and for the record, I'm talking to everyone again), and it really pains me to admit this, but I have hear that Pennsylvania, my home state, has the highest percentage of people involved with rascist organizations that any other state. Must be a lot of skinheads up here. It makes me fuckin' sick!!!

As for this actual song, I think it is a very good song, and it talks about the darkest side of rascism, something which not too many people seem to want to talk about, but which still exists to this day. It real, it's scary, and it will lead to humaity's destruction if nothing is done. And to those who will give me a load of shit for saying that only whites are rascist, then you can save you're fucking breath, I'm against predjiduce being directed at anyone, although, if anyone has actually deserved predjudice directed at them, I'd say it be us white folks, only because we've done far more to inflame the situation than anyone else has.

And you know else I can't stand, when people justify their hatred in the name of god, and say that they kill and harrass "niggers," and "spics," and "jews," and "chinks" in the name of God. I have the odd distinction of liking Satanic music, but still being a Christian, and it infuriates me when people justify there hatred in God's name. You stupid fuckers (yes I'm swearing at you) need to seriously read you're fucking bibles again, because doesn't it say that you should love your neighboor? That doesn't mean the people in your all-white, all-black, all-Mexican, or all-Chinese neighboorhood, it means everyone who lives in this world, whether they love you back or not, you not suppose to hate them. Although, as I've said before, I myself draw the line at people like Hitler, because you just can't reason with them at all, a man like that could not be allowed to live.

To those who I'll piss off for my endless ranting, I'm sorry, I get very passionate when I speak out against rascism, and I put down everything I'm thinking. I just had to let it all out.

Anyway, both lyrically and musically, this song is excellent. I think that those here who said this song was predjudice against all Southerners, I say you're wrong. I think it just happens to be signing about rascism at it's ugliest, whitch is a good thing, because some artists only skim the surface.

And just to clarify this also, Lynyrd Skynyrd and Neil Young both fucking rule.